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deen, beginning his career as a student of 

 medicine, but afterward changing his course 

 and attaining distinction as a student of classics. 

 On leaving the university he devoted himself 

 to teaching, and established a private academy 

 at Aberdeen, which attained a high reputation. 

 Subsequently he removed to Edinburgh, where 

 he was a teacher in the Southern Academy, 

 afterward at Jedburgh, and finally was at the 

 head of the Madras College, in St. Andrew's, 

 where his reputation became so wide-spread 

 that in 1850 he was appointed one of her 

 Majesty's Inspectors of Schools for Scotland. 

 His works are: "An Epitome of Part of 

 Caesar's Commentaries," 1860; "Eclogaa Ho- 

 ratianae," 1849 ; " Elements of the Latin Lan- 

 guage," and "The Answers in the Shorter 

 Catechism," adapted for reading in continuous 

 text, with the questions and proofs subjoined, 

 and the grammatical notes. 



Jan. 8. GOEDON, Admiral Sir JAMES ALEX- 

 ANDER, G. 0. B., Governor of Greenwich 

 Hospital; died there, aged 87 years. He 

 entered the navy in 1793, and rose rapidly in 

 his profession. He was at the battle of the 

 Nile ; served in the West Indies, Mediterranean, 

 and Adriatic ; commanded the Active, frigate, 

 at the battle of Lissa, for which he received a 

 gold medal and a pension of 300, and, at the 

 capture of the French frigate La Pomone, had 

 a leg carried away by a 36-pounder. In 

 August, 1814, with a squadron under his com- 

 mand, he entered the river Potomac, where, 

 having reduced Fort Washington and other 

 batteries, he forced the city of Alexandria to 

 capitulate. In 1827 he was appointed Govern- 

 or of the Royal Naval Hospital at Plymouth. In 

 1840 he became Lieutenant-Governor of Green- 

 wich Hospital, and in 1853 was advanced to 

 the post of Governor of that establishment. 

 Altogether he served in the navy nearly seventy- 

 six years, and he was the last survivor of Lord 

 Nelson's band of captains. In 1815 he was 

 created a K. 0. B. ; in 1854, G. C. B., and 

 Admiral of the Fleet in 1868. 



Jan. 11. DICKINSON, JOHN, F.R.S., F.G.S., 

 F. A. S., a paper-maker, inventor, philosopher, 

 astronomer, geologist, and geographer ; died in 

 London. He was born March 29, 1782, in Lon- 

 don, and, after receiving a good school educa- 

 tion, was apprenticed to Mr. Andrew Strahan, 

 at that time the King's printer. At the expi- 

 ration of his indentures he went into busi- 

 ness, first as a printer and afterward as a 

 paper-maker, in partnership with Mr. George 

 Longman, in the Old Bailey. It was about 

 1806 that Mr. Dickinson first purchased a 

 paper-mill, and by machinery of his own in- 

 vention, and that of Mr. Henry Fourdrinier, 

 he created a revolution in the whole manufac- 

 ture of paper. Mr. Dickinson was the in- 

 ventor of numerous processes which have 

 greatly aided in perfecting this branch of 

 industry, and some of his devices for protecting 

 bank-note paper from being counterfeited are 

 even now the best that have been devised. In 



the fifty-one years in which he was engaged in 

 manufacturing, he took out nearly fifty patents. 

 He was elected Master of the Stationers' Com- 

 pany in 1857, and (which was unusual) was 

 chosen again the next year. He was offered a 

 Fellowship in the Royal Society in 1818, but 

 declined it from modesty; he was elected in 

 1845, and read some papers of great merit to 

 the Society, on the percolation of water through 

 the chalk strata. In his latter years he de- 

 voted much attention to astronomy, and to 

 geographical and geological science. He had 

 a fine observatory, well supplied with astro- 

 nomical instruments, at his country-seat of 

 Abbot's Hill, and quite a geological museum 

 of his own collecting. He was also a liberal 

 benefactor and manager of several hospitals 

 and other benevolent institutions. 



Jan. 11. DTCE, ROBERT, M. D., Professor 

 of Midwifery in the University of Aberdeen ; 

 died at Edinburgh, aged 70 years. He was a 

 native of Aberdeen, graduated at Marischal 

 College in 1816, and afterward studied medi- 

 cine in his native town, Edinburgh, and Lon- 

 don. Having spent some time in the Military 

 Hospital at Chatham, he accepted a staff ap- 

 pointment from Sir Lowry Cole, Governor of 

 the Mauritius, and subsequently Governor of 

 the Cape of Good Hope. Returning home in 

 1833, he was for some years lecturer on mid- 

 wifery in Marischal College, and finally pro- 

 fessor. He contributed some valuable papers 

 to the medical periodicals, and was known as 

 an accomplished naturalist. He was for many 

 years physician to the Royal Infirmary. 



Jan. 14. CUBTIS, Admiral Sir Lucius, Bart., 

 K. C. B., the senior officer of her Majesty's 

 fleet, and of the British Navy ; died at Ports- 

 down Hill, near Cosham, Eng. He was born 

 June 3, 1786, entered the navy in 1795, was 

 made post-captain in 1806, was taken prisoner 

 in 1810 by the French, and, after several 

 months of cruel captivity, returned to England 

 and was for two years in command of frigates 

 in the coast squadron. He became a baronet 

 in 1816, rear-admiral in 1838, vice-admiral in 

 1849, and admiral in 1855. He was admiral 

 superintendent of Malta 1843-'48. 



Jan. 14. WEIGHT, HENEY GOODE, M. D., an 

 accomplished physician and author; died in 

 London, aged 41 years. He was educated at 

 Gloucester, Edinburgh, and Paris, graduated 

 M. D., at Edinburgh, in 1851, and was ap- 

 pointed, not long after, physician to the Sa- 

 maritan Free Hospital, the St. Pancras Dispen- 

 sary, and the Royal Benevolent Industrial 

 Society. He stood deservedly high in his 

 profession, and his two medical treatises, 

 "Headaches, their Causes and their Cure," and 

 "Uterine Disorders, their Constitutional In- 

 fluence and Treatment," rank among the 

 ablest contributions to pathology. He con- 

 tributed also a series of annotations to the 

 Lancet, which were remarkable for their 

 brilliancy, wit, sarcasm, and wise counsel. 

 But, outside of his profession, he was also an 



