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brought about another estrangement. After the later part of the 

 decade his papers became fewer ; for advancing age and increasing 

 engagements made work in the field more difficult, and though 

 in some ways vigorous, he was often out of health, and had more 

 serious illnesses and accidents than most men. " From 1813 to 

 his death he could never count upon robust health for even a day." 

 Infirmities increased more rapidly during his last fourteen years, 

 till life ebbed away in his rooms at Trinity in the early morning of 

 January 27th, 1873. He had received the Wollaston Medal from 

 the Geological Society and the Copley from the Royal, the honorary 

 degree of LL.D. from Cambridge, and a canonry at Norwich. To 

 children he was devoted, to younger students ever kind and stimu- 

 lating ; his wonderful memory, fund of stories, varied recollections, 

 and sense of humour made him the most delightful of companions ; 

 in fact his geology was not his only faculty which bore the stamp 

 of genius. 



PROFESSOR WILLIAM HALLOWES MILLER, whose name is inseparable 

 from mineralogy, was born at Felindre near Llandovery on April 

 6th, 1 80 1.' Going to Cambridge, he got a high place in the Mathe- 

 matical Tripos and a Fellowship at St. John's College, and was elected, 

 in 1832, Professor of Mineralogy. For this science he developed a 

 system of Crystallography simpler and better adapted than any 

 previous one to mathematical calculation. When the burning of 

 the Houses of Parliament in 1834 destroyed the standards of length 

 and weight, he took a leading part in reconstructing them, and 

 in all his scientific work showed a great power of obtaining precise 

 results by simple means. Elected to the Royal Society in 1838, 

 he was awarded a Royal Medal, was made LL.D. by Dublin and 

 D.C.L. by Oxford, and received more than one foreign order. He 

 died at Cambridge, after a gradual failure of health, on May 2oth, 

 1880, much esteemed for his wide and accurate knowledge and 

 his unselfish nature. 



MR. GEORGE NEWPORT, who rose from a humble origin to be 

 a high authority as a scientific entomologist, was born at Canterbury 

 on July 4th, 1803. Beginning a medical training at Sandwich, 

 he obtained the M.R.C.S. in 1835 and an appointment at Chichester, 

 but devoted all his spare time to studying insects, more especially 

 those of his native county, and communicated papers to the Royal 

 and other Societies, becoming F.R.S. in 1846 and receiving a Royal 

 Medal. He then settled hi London, where also he practised, but 

 in his later days had a Civil List pension, and died on April 7th, 

 1854. 



MR. GEORGE RENNIE, sculptor and politician, born in Haddington- 

 shire in 1802, was a nephew of the distinguished engineer, John 

 Rennie. He studied sculpture in Rome, exhibiting his works from 



