42 Royal Society. 



other nam£s will unfortunately be found of individuals highly en- 

 titled to our respect and regard. 



Among these I would mention Dr. Edward Ash. 

 Dr. Ash has not, I believe, honoured our Transactions with any 

 communication ; but his acquirements in science are well known, 

 and every contemporary at Oxford will attest the elevated reputa- 

 tion he obtained in the University for the classic literature culti- 

 vated in that seat of learning. In after life he adorned the profes- 

 sion from which this Society has derived a large portion of its 

 splendour and renown. 



Lord Buchan, a man of genius and of letters, to whom the world 

 is indebted for a Life of Napier, with an account of his most splen- 

 did invention, the canon of logarithms, without which neither the 

 Tables, nor the reductions of modern Astronomy, could be exe- 

 cuted, nor many of the formulae in the higher geometry be brought 

 into practical use. For nearly ten years Lord Buchan has re- 

 mained the senior Fellow of this Society, ever since the decease of 

 the late king, who for some years bore in a double sense, the re- 

 lation of father to the Royal Society. 



Lord Oriel, late Mr. Foster, Speaker of the Irish House of Com- 

 mons, was distinguished for his attention to the agriculture, to the 

 trade, and to the manufactures of the nation, more especially of 

 that part with which he was most intimately connected ; and during 

 a life so long continued, that he alone, of all the gentlemen of the 

 United Kingdom who were members of the last parliament of 

 George the Second, lived to take a seat in the parliament of the 

 present king. 



Mr. Smilhson has added eight communications to our Transac- 

 tions. He was distinguished by the intimate friendship of Mr. Ca- 

 vendish, and rivalled our most expert chemists in elegant analyses : 

 but the latter part of his life has been passed abroad. 



Sir Christopher Hawkins was not merely the patron, but the ac- 

 tive promoter of science and knowledge in Cornwall, his native 

 county, where so ample a field is laid open for investigation ; and 

 he has given to the world an ingenious treatise On the Trade of the 

 Ancients with Britain for Tin, its then only export. 



Dr.Wavell has been distinguished by the discovery of a very pe- 

 culiar mineral, — a sub-phosphate of alumina, — to which his name 

 has been affixed. 



The Rev. Robert Mares, a gentleman eminent for general profi- 

 ciency in literature, and whom we have all known and esteemed. 



And lastly, I would mention Mr. Tavel, highly distinguished as 

 a tutor in the University, and the particular college, most eminent 

 for physical sciences ; and we have to lament his loss at a period of 

 life when the attainments of early youth are most likely to be ren- 

 dered beneficial to the world. 



On the Foreign List, 



M. VAUQUELIN. 



I have a letter from his brother, announcing the death of M. Vau- 

 quelin on the 14th of this month. 



M. Vauquelin 



