312 Scienlific Intelligence. [April, 



Article XII. 



SCIENTIFIC INTEILIGKNCE; and notices of subjects 

 CONNECTED WITH SCIENCE. 



I. Lectures. 



Middlesex Hospital. — Dr. Meriiman's next Course of Lectures 

 on Midwifery and the Diseases of Women and Children will be 

 delivered at the above hospital during the months of April and May. 

 The Introductory Lecture will be read on Monday, April 10, at 

 half-past ten o'clock. 



IL Smiihson Tennant, Esq. 



It is with much concern that we announce the death of Smithson 

 Tennant, Esq. F. R. S. and Professor of Chemistry in the Univer- 

 sity of Cambridge ; a man in whom genius, talents, and virtue, 

 were united in their highest forms. Although his industry was 

 checked by a frame naturally weak, and a languid state of health, 

 his acquirements in science were remarkably general, and in many 

 branches profound. 



The circumstances of Mr. Tennant's death were most afflicting. 

 He was returning from France, where he had been several months, 

 and was waiting at Boulogne for a favourable wind. He bad 

 actually embarked on Wednesday the 22d of February, but the 

 vessel was obliged to put back ; and it was determined, if the 

 weather should be tolerable, to make another trial in the evening. 

 During the interval Mr. T. proposed to a German officer of distinc- 

 tion, whom he had accidentally joined on the road, and who was 

 also going to England, to ride with him to Buonaparte's Pillar, 

 near Bouloghe. In returning he deviated a little to look at a forti- 

 fication near the road. But as they were attempting to pass a 

 draw-bridge, which, owing to some neglect, was not properly 

 secured, the bridge gave way, and they were precipitated into the 

 trench. The officer fortunately escaped without any serious hurt ; 

 but Mr. Tennant was found fallen under his horse, and was taken 

 up speechless, his skull and one of his arms being considerably 

 fractured. He was conveyed with difficulty to the hospital at Bou- 

 logne, as the nearest and most convenient place to receive him, 

 and expired in half an hour. His remains were interred at Boulogne. 

 A fuller account of this interesting philosopher is preparing, and 

 will be given in an early number of the Jnnals. 



IIL Dr. Seetzen, the German Traveller. 



Dr. Seetzen is little known in this country, except through a 

 translation, by the Palestine Society, of a brief account by him of the 

 countries adjoining the lake Tiberias, the Jordan, and the Dead Sea. 

 As his merits are very extraordinary, it will be interesting to give a 

 short sketch respecting him. 



Ulrich Jasper Seetzen, born in the Russian lordship of Jever, is 

 the son of an affluent farmer. He was educated at Gottingen, 



