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chemistry at Guy's Hospital, and he was the author of a Systematic 

 Arrangement of Minerals, founded upon a joint consideration of their 

 chemical, physical and external characters ; and also of other works, 

 of less importance, upon mineralogical arrangement. He was the 

 active and disinterested friend of science and of men of science, from 

 the time of Priestley to that of Sir Humphry Davy ; and though the 

 absorbing duties of a laborious profession prevented his taking a 

 leading part in original inquiries, he was well acquainted with the 

 existing state of knowledge, particularly in geology, physiology and 

 chemistry. He was one of the first founders of the Geological So- 

 ciety ; and the earliest meetings of that distinguished body, which 

 has contributed so powerfully to the advancement of geological know- 

 ledge, were held at his house. He was a person of great simplicity 

 of manners, a warm and active friend, zealous in the promotion of 

 objects of charity and usefulness, and in the practice of his profession 

 singularly kind to the poor. 



The death of Lord Dover in the course of this year excited an 

 unusual degree of public sympathy and sorrow, from his youth and 

 high birth, his domestic virtues, and perhaps also his domestic hap- 

 piness, his unsidlied public character, his cultivated taste for the 

 arts, and his liberal and enlightened patronage of artists, and most 

 of all from the promise of the highest literary distinction afforded by 

 his very interesting historical memoirs and other literary productions. 

 Such qualities and attainments, whilst they give dignity to all who 

 possess them, acquire a peculiar grace and lustre when found in 

 those classes of society in which the possession of rank and wealth 

 separate altogether the pursuit of knowledge and of fame from all 

 taint of a suspected union with the desire of mere personal aggran- 

 dizement. 



The Rev. Bewick Bridge, Fellow of St. Peter's College, Cam- 

 bridge, obtained the highest mathematical honours in his own acade- 

 mical year. He was for many years Mathematical Professor in the East 

 India College at Haileybury, and was the author of several elemen- 

 tary works on different parts of mathematics, which are remarkable 

 for their judicious adaptation to the capacities of ordinary students, 

 by the union of simplicity and fulness in the developement of first 

 principles, — a species of merit which those only can duly estimate 

 whose experience in education has shown it to be very rarely at- 

 tained. Mr. Bridge was a person of great benevolence, who devoted 

 his life and fortune to the promotion of objects of charity and pub- 

 lic utility, and whose purity of character and kindness of heart se- 

 cured him the affectionate attachment of a large circle of friends. 



Captain Lyon became first known to the public from his having 

 accompanied the late Mr. Ritchie in his journey into the interior of 

 Africa. His companion died at Moorzouk, and after encountering 

 the ordinary succession of sufferings and dangers which characterize 

 the melancholy records of African discovery, he succeeded in effect- 

 ing his return, and published a very modest and interesting journal 

 of his travels. He afterwards accompanied Captain Parry in the 

 eecond voyage to the Arctic Regions, as commander of one of the 



