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pass to a considerable height above the deck in iron ships. And a 

 few months later, with a view to further observation and experience, 

 he undertook a voyage to Australia in the Royal Charter, making 

 careful and laborious investigations on the question which he had so 

 much at heart, both going and returning. His arrival at Melbourne 

 was made the occasion of conferring on him the degree of M.A. of 

 the University of that city. 



Dr. Scoresby came back from Australia in a weakened state of 

 health, caused by the fatigues of the voyage ; nor did his return home 

 promote recovery. He grew gradually weaker, and died at Torquay 

 on the 21st of March, 1857, at the age of sixty-seven, leaving his 

 third wife a widow. 



Dr. Scoresby was the author of several works not mentioned above. 

 Besides a volume of Sermons and books of a religious character, he 

 published in 1822, 'Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale 

 Fishery ; including Researches and Discoveries on the Eastern Coast 

 of West Greenland.' A translation of this book into German appeared 

 three years later at Hamburg. In 1851 he brought out a volume, 

 entitled 'Memorials of the Sea,' being records of his father's ad- 

 venturous life, and intended to follow it by a similar volume concern- 

 ing his own. This will probably now appear as a posthumous work. 

 He published also the ' Zoistic Magazine,' with a view to elicit the 

 scientific principles of mesmeric phenomena; and during the first 

 excitement respecting the lost arctic explorers, he wrote 'The 

 Franklin Expedition,' a small book embodying his views as to the 

 course and fate of the party, and the means to be taken for their 

 rescue. 



M. THENARD was born on the 4th of May, 1 777, at Nogent sur 

 Seine, in Champagne. His father, a farmer in humble circumstances, 

 was a man of strong sense. He soon discovered the abilities of his 

 son, and, at a great sacrifice to himself, procured for him a good ele- 

 mentary education at Sens. There, young Thenard acquired a taste 

 for classical literature, which never forsook him. At the age of sixteen 

 he went to Paris, in order to study pharmacy, with the intention of 

 returning to practise it in Loutiere. By good fortune he commenced 

 his chemical studies in the laboratory of Vauquelin, who soon dis- 

 covered the talents of his pupil. Thenard felt a new life spring up 



