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lish Episcopal clergyman and author, died at 

 Stowlangtoft, aged 70 years. He graduated at 

 Oriel College, Oxford, in 1817, was ordained in 



1820, and in 1832 was presented to the rectory 

 of Stowlangtoft, where he passed the remainder 

 of his life. He was a learned theologian and a 

 vigorous writer. Among his works are " The 

 Christian Householder; or, Book of Family 

 Prayers," "A Parish Prayer-Book," "Short 

 Sermons," and "Prayers, Morning and Even- 

 ing of the Week for School." 



Aug. 25. COXE, Ven. Archdeacon RIOHABD 

 CHABLES, Canon of Durham and Vicar of Eg- 

 lingham, died at the vicarage, aged 65 years. 

 He graduated at "Worcester College, Oxford, in 



1821, was ordained deacon in 1823, and priest 

 in 1824. In 1841 he was presented to the 

 vicarage of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and in 1843 

 was appointed Honorary Canon of Durham, 

 and was one of the select preachers before the 

 University of Oxford. In 1853 he was pre- 

 ferred to the archdeaconry of Lindisfarne, with 

 the vicarage of Eglingham annexed. In 1857 

 he was made Canon of Durham. Archdeacon 

 Coxe was the author of several valuable theo- 

 logical works, a number of sermons, and a few 

 volumes of poems of a high order of merit. 



Aug. 28. WINDELE, JOHN, a distinguished 

 antiquarian, geographer, and local historian, died 

 at Cork, Ireland, aged 64 years. He was a 

 native of Cork, and early in life evinced an in- 

 tense love for antiquarian pursuits. Though a 

 self-taught man, his information upon general 

 subjects was varied and extensive, and he was 

 well versed iu the philology and antiquities of 

 the ancient people of Europe, was a good Latin 

 and French scholar, and au indefatigable con- 

 tributor to periodicals, newspapers, and anti- 

 quarian publications. In 1839 he published his 

 " Cork and the South of Ireland." He was a 

 contributor to the "Dublin Penny Journal," 

 the "Ulster Journal of Archaeology," and the 

 " Transactions of the Kilkenny Archeology So- 

 ciety." 



Aug. 31. APPOLD, J. GEORGE, F. R. S., an 

 eminent mechanician and inventor, died at 

 Clifton, aged 65 years. He held a high place 

 among engineers and men of science. His cen- 

 trifugal pumps formed striking features of the 

 English Exhibitions of 1 85 1 and 1 862. The pay- 

 ing-out apparatus used in laying submarine tele- 

 graphs was mostly his invention ; but the most 

 remarkable proofs of his genius were collected 

 in his own house and its surroundings, where 

 almost every thing was automatic. Doors and 

 gates opened and closed as required ; when the 

 gas was lighted, the shutters closed ; and a self- 

 acting thermometer prevented the temperature 

 rising or falling beyond certain points. Mr. A. 

 was also a dresser of furs by a secret process, 

 whicli secured him a practical monopoly of the 

 trade. 



Sept. 2. ENCKE, JOHANX FBANZ, a German 

 astronomer, and director of the Royal Observa- 

 tory of Berlin, born at Hamburg, September 23, 

 1791, died at Berlin, September 2, 1865. He 



was educated at home by his father, and at th 

 University of Gottingen, served in the Prussian 

 army, and after the fall of Napoleon obtained a 

 situation in the observatory of Seeberg, near 

 Gotha, as assistant to Herr von Linden, the 

 Director. He pronounced, in 1819, that the 

 comet observed by Pons, at Marseilles, on the 

 26th of November, 1818, was the same as that 

 previously seen by Mechain and Meissier in 

 1786 in the constellation Aquarius, by Miss 

 Herschel in 1795 in the constellation Cygnus, 

 by Pons in 1805. and that it would reappear in 

 1822, its period being about 3.3 years, but prob- 

 ably would not be seen in Europe. It was 

 observed by Runcker, at Sir Thomas Brisbane's 

 observatory, in New South Wales, on the 3d of 

 June, 1822, and Encke' s comet, as it has since 

 been called, has kept its appointments with 

 such punctuality that it might almost be re- 

 garded as a permanent member of our system, 

 were it not for the gradual diminution in the 

 time of its revolution, and its consequent ap- 

 proach to the sun. In 1825 Encke went to 

 Berlin to take charge of the observatory there, 

 as a successor to the celebrated Bode, whom 

 he succeeded, in 1830, as editor of the "Ber- 

 liner Astronomischen Jahrbuch." The erec- 

 tion of a new observatory in 1835, furnished 

 with more powerful instruments, which was 

 partly due to a suggestion of Humboldt, gave 

 Encke an enlarged sphere of labor. Besides 

 other investigations, Encke improved the the- 

 ory of Vesta, and published a new method of 

 computing perturbations, especially for orbits 

 considerably elliptical. The planet Neptuno 

 was discovered at his observatory by M. Galle, 

 his assistant. His publications upon astronomy 

 and higher mathematics were numerous. In 

 1845 he published dissertations De Formulis 

 Dioptricis ; and in 1846 a treatise "On the 

 Relation of Astronomy to the other Sciences." 



Sept. 4. MOOBE, Mrs. BESSIE, widow of 

 Thomas Moore, the poet, died at Sloperton Cot- 

 tage, aged about 68 years. She was a woman 

 of rare worth and loveliness of character. 



Sept. 17. GRANT, JAMES WM., astronomer and 

 naturalist, died at Wester-Elchies, aged 77 years. 

 He went to India in 1807, and remained there 

 forty-four years, where he attained to a judge- 

 ship. During his residence here he spent his 

 leisure in the study of astronomy, and upon 

 succeeding to the family estates in Scotland, 

 gave himself up to scientific and artistic pur- 

 suits. To further his astronomical studies, he 

 purchased the great "trophy telescope," to 

 which a prize was awarded at the Great Inter- 

 national Exhibition of 1851. For this valuable 

 instrument he had built the finest observatory 

 in Scotland, and which has been visited by the 

 most eminent scientific men of the world. 



Sept. 22. PANDER, Dr. CHBISTIAN II., an em- 

 inent Russian naturalist and geological writer, 

 died at St. Petersburg. He was a native of 

 Riga, and commenced his scientific career in 

 1817. Among his most important publications 

 are " Contributions to the Geology of the Rus- 



