Necrology.—Dr. Wollaston. 159 
“The fine climate of Italy suited his health;.on which account, 
in the course of 1828, he went to Rome to obtain relief from his 
bodily afflictions. About the close of the last winter, his friends ap- 
prehended his life to be in danger. On receiving this intelligence, 
Lady Davy immediately left London for Rome, and travelled with 
so much haste, as to accomplish the journey in the short period of 
twelve days and a half. She found him better, and he determined, 
accompanied by Lady Davy and his brother, John Davy, to come to 
Geneva, where he had made a long sojourn in 1814, and where he 
had numerous friends. He bore the journey well; but a few hours 
after his arrival in this city, he suddenly sunk under an attack of ap- 
poplexy in the night of the 28th of May, aged fifty and a half years. ~ 
The learned of all countries will appreciate the immense loss 
which they have just sustained. The friends of science in Ge- 
neva, were the first to manifest that expression of regret which will 
be rapidly extended throughout the learned of Europe. The Acad- 
emy of our city united with Dr. Davy, in rendering the last duties 
to the former president of the Royal Society, and claimed the priv- 
ilege of occupying the place of absent parents. The government, 
the clergy, the society of Arts and of Medicine, the English who 
Were incidentally in Geneva, the students of the Academy, the artists, 
and a crowd of citizens of the Canton attended the funeral ; they 
Were anxious to render a final homage to an illustrious philosopher, 
and to prove that he who, like Davy, has extended the bounds of 
human knowledge, and has employed his talents in the service of hu- 
manity, is not a stranger m any country.” 
DR. WOLLASTON. 
From the Minutes of the Astronomical Society, at the anniversary meeting, 
Febru ve | 
Dr. Wollaston was born August 6, 1766, at East Dereham ; was 
graduated at Cambridge, and became a fellow of Caius College, 
which he left in 1789; from that period to 1800 he spent in London, 
in medical studies and practice, which, not coinciding with his taste, 
he abandoned, on receiving an accession of fortune, and thenceforward 
became a public scientific character. He was many years V. P. R.S. 
and P. for a short time in 1820. He was a zealous and active com- 
missioner of longitude, a member of the Astron. Soc. and his last 
observations were made on the relative brightness of the sun and 
fixed stars. He died on the 22d of December, 1828. 
