64- Royal Society : — Anniversary Address of the President : 



borne to the grave by his own labourers, and followed by his widow 

 and family in that primitive and unostentatious form which best 

 suited the simplicity and natural humility of his own character. 



Dr. Samuel Butlek, Bishop of Lichfield, was born in 1774, at 

 Kenilworth, which was likewise the birth-placeof two other contempo- 

 rary prelates of our church. He was educated at Rugby, and became 

 afterwards a member of St. John's College, Cambridge, where he 

 gained the highest classical honours which the University could 

 confer. In 1798 he was made Head Master of Shrewsbury School, 

 overwhich he continued topresideduringaperiodofthirty-cight years. 

 His great acquirements as a scholar, his eminent skill as a teacher, 

 his active interest in tlie welfare of his pupils, and the tact and 

 knowledge of character which he showed in their management, all 

 contributed to raise tlie school to the highest reputation, and to give 

 it, during many years, the pre-eminence over every other school in 

 the kingdom in tiie number and rank of the academical honours 

 which were gained by his scholai's. The date of his elevation to 

 the Bench was nearly contemporaneous with the appearance of that 

 fatal disease wliich, after three years of the most depressing suffer- 

 ings, borne with most exemplary patience and resignation, brought 

 him to the grave. He was a man of great cheerfulness of temper 

 and disposition, kind, affectionate and generous in every relation of 

 life, and justly the object of the grateful attachment and love of his 

 numerous pupils. 



Dr. Butler was the author of an elaborate edition of ^l^schylus, 

 Anth the notes and text of Stanly, and of several educational and 

 other works. He formed a very extensive library ; and his collection 

 of Aldines, which is unhappily now dispersed, was perhaps the 

 most complete in Europe. One of his last works was an interest- 

 ing memoir of Dr. John Johnstone, of Birmingham, with whom he 

 had long been connected by the bonds of the most affectionate 

 friendship. 



Mr. James Prinsep, Avhose brilliant career of research and dis- 

 covery has been closed by a j^remature death in the flower of his age, 

 Avas Principal Assay Master, first of the Mint at Benares, and secondly 

 of that of Calcutta, where he succeeded Professor Wilson in 18:33; he 

 was a young man of great energy of character, of the most indefati- 

 gable industry, and of very extraordinary accomplishments ; he was 

 an excellent assayistand analytical chemist, and well acquainted with 

 almost every department of physical science ; a draughtsman, an en- 

 graver, an architect, and an engineer; a good Oriental scholar, and 

 one of the most profound and learned Oriental medallists of his age. 



In 1828 he communicated to our Society a paper " On tlie Mea- 

 surement of High Te?nperatures," in which he described, amongst 

 other ingenious coMrivances for ascertaining the order, though not 

 the degree, of high temperatures, an air-thermometer applicable for 

 this purpose, and determined by means of it, probably nmch more 

 accurately than heretofore, the temperature at which silver enters 

 into fusion*. 



[• See Phil. Mag. and Annals, N. S. vol. iii. p. 129, and vol. x. p. 35C, 

 note. — Edit.] 



