OBITUAKIES. 



Jan. 10. BORREH, WILLIAM, F. R. S., an 



English botanist, died at his residence at Bar- 

 row-hill, Sussex, aged 80 years. In his exten- 

 sive and accurate knowledge of the pla: 

 the British Islands, he had probably no equal ; 

 and there was scarcely an important work 

 upon British botany for the last fifty years, 

 that had not acknowledged his assistance. In 

 1813 he commenced, in conjunction witli the 

 late Mr. Dawsou Turner, a work on British 

 lichens, but, owing to the death of the publisher 

 and other adverse circumstances, it did not see 

 the light until 1839. The "English botany" is 

 also largely indebted to his pen for valuable 

 contributions. He was a patron also of all the 

 kindred sciences, and especially interested him- 

 self in the education of the poorer c! 



Jan. 27. HAWTEEY, EDWARD CRAVEN, D.D., 

 provost of Eton, died at the Lodge, Eton Col- 

 lege. He was born at Burnham, Bucks, May 

 7, 1789 ; was educated at Eton, and admitted 

 as a scholar of King's College, Cambridge, in 

 1>07. and three years after became a fellow of 

 that collfge. In 1814 he assumed the responsi- 

 ble and arduous duties of assistant master at 

 Eton, and upon the resignation of Dr. Keate in 

 1834, was appointed head master. In 1853 

 upon the death of the Rev. Francis Hodgson, 

 he was elected provost. As a member of the 

 Roxburgh Club, he was well known in literary 

 circles, and his intimate acquaintance with books 

 enabled him to collect a library of great value. 

 He was an accomplished scholar in the French, 

 German, and Italian languages, and his transla- 

 tions were remarkable for their beauty and idio- 

 matic propriety. His "7? Trifoglio" contains 

 translations of poems, with a few original pieces 

 in Greek, Italian, and German ; the versions 

 are from French and English into Greek, 

 from Latin. English, and German into Italian, 

 and from English into German, all executed 

 with surprising accuracy. His administration at 

 Eton gave evidence of superior wisdom and 

 judgment, and restored to the college its char- 

 acter for classical preeminence, which for a 

 tune had seemed impaired. 



Jan. 27. HOEXE. Rev. THOMAS HAETWELL. 

 (See HORSE, Rev, T. H.) 



Jan. 28. ATTEEE, W. WAKEFOBD, an Eng- 

 lish barrister, died at Brighton, aged 55 years. 

 He was educated at Eton, whence he proceed- 

 ed to the University of Cambridge, where he 

 graduated. In 1833 he was admitted to the 

 bar by the Honorable Society of the Middle 

 Temple, and at once joined the home circuit, 

 and Sussex sessions. He was recorder of 

 Hastings, Rye. and Seaford, and was known in 

 legal circles as the editor of a report of the 

 celebrated Braintree Church-rate case, and re- 

 porter of the " Law Journal" of cases decided 

 by the House of Lords. He was a vi^-presi- 

 dent of the Brighton Royal Literary and 

 Scientific Institution, and of the School of Art, 

 a member of the Sussex Board of Examiners, 

 and of the Council of Brighton College. 



Jan. 23. SYMINGTON, W., D. D., professor 



of theology in the seminary of the Reformed 

 Presbyterian Church in Scotland, died at Glas- 

 gow in the 67th year of his age, and the 43d 

 of his ministry. His works on the " Atone- 

 ment and Intercession of Chri- ; the 

 "Mediatorial Dominion of Christ." are tl,. 

 known to the public. He was also the author 

 of a volume of sermons. 



Jan. 30. RUSSELL, JOHN, an English bar- 

 rister, died at Southbank, near Edinburgh, 

 aged 82 years. As early as 1803 he was a mem- 

 ber of the Society of Writers to the "signet." 

 "When the Jury Court was established, he was 

 appointed one of the principal clerks, and con- 

 tinued to discharge the duties of that office 

 until the Jury Court was merged in the Court 

 of Sessions, when he became one of the Prin- 

 cipal Clerks of Session. He was one of the 

 managers of the great musical festivals held in 

 Edinburgh more than forty years since upon the 

 introduction of the music of Handel, Mozart, 

 Beethoven, Rossini, and other great masters. 

 He was one of the original founders of the 

 Edinburgh Academy, for many years treasurer 

 of the Royal Society, and likewise a director of 

 the Union Bank, Edinburgh Life Assurance, 

 and of many other associations. 



Jan. 31. MACKENZIE, Rt. Rev. Bishop. (Set 

 MACKENZIE-.) 



February 4. BIOT, JEAN BAPTISTE, a cele- 

 brated French savant, died in Paris. He was 

 born in that city, April 21, 1774. He was edu- 

 cated at the Lyceum of Louis le Grand, and in 

 1793 served as an artilleryman in the army of 

 the North. In 1794 he entered the Polytech- 

 nic School at Paris, and after graduating, was * 

 appointed professor in the Central School of 

 Beauvais, from whence, in 1800, he was called 

 to the chair of Physical Science in the college 

 of France. In 1803 he became a member of 

 the Academy of Sciences, the year following be- 

 came connected with the observatory, was soon 

 after named a member of the bureau of longi- 

 tudes, and was associated with Arago and 

 Lussac in many important scientific research- 

 es. He accompanied the latter, in 1804, in his 

 first balloon ascent, and from 1806 to 1809, was 

 engaged in Spain with Arago in a series of 

 triangnlations to measure an arc of the meridian. 

 On his return to Paris in 1809, he was elected 

 professor of physical astronomy to the faculty 

 of Sciences. In 1817 he visited the Orkneys 

 to complete his labors on the arc of meridian. 

 In 1840 the Royal Society of Great Britain 

 awarded him the Rumford medal for his re- 

 searches on the polarization of light. In 1841 he 

 was elected a member of the French Academy 

 of Inscriptions and Belles Letters, and in 

 he was chosen a member of the Academic 

 Francaise, in the place of Lacretelle. The death 

 of his son. E. C. Biot, an eminent oriental 

 scholar, in 1850, saddened his later y 

 Biot was the author of numerous mathematical, 

 astronomical and philosophical works, and of 

 two biographies of great merit. Montaigne and 

 Gay-Lussac. His most remarkable works are 



