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Warfare, in the ' Cyclopaedia of Scriptural Knowledge,' edited by 

 Dr. Kitto. 



The extraordinary amount of materials collected by Colonel Smith 

 is not, however, to be estimated only by his published works. 

 He has left more than twenty volumes of manuscript notes on the 

 most varied subjects. In many instances these notes illustrate his 

 remarkable collection of drawings, amounting in number to many 

 thousands. The whole of these valuable collections, as well as his 

 personal assistance, were throughout his life placed freely at the dis- 

 posal of all to whom they could be of service ; and it was at all times 

 sufficient for the Colonel to be assured that by his advice and assist- 

 ance he could further the objects of the literary inquirer or the 

 artist to ensure his active cooperation. 



Colonel Smith became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1824, and 

 of the Linnean in 1826. On the formation of the Devon and Corn- 

 wall Natural History Society, he was elected President. On his 

 retirement from active military service he fixed his residence at Ply- 

 mouth, where he died on the 21st of September, 1859. 



Sir GEORGE THOMAS STAUNTON, Bart., D.C.L., was the only 

 child of the late Sir George Leonard Staunton, who is well known 

 to the public as having accompanied Lord Macartney as Secretary 

 of the first Embassy to China, in the year 1 792, and as the author 

 of the account of the Embassy which was afterwards published. He 

 is not less known to those who are acquainted with the history 

 of British India, as having, when Lord Macartney was Governor of 

 Madras, concluded the peace with Tippoo Sultan in the year 1784. 



Sir George Thomas Staunton was born in May 1781, and died, 

 after a succession of paralytic seizures, in the summer of 1859. 

 He succeeded his father in the baronetcy in the year 1801. 

 After his father's death he was the last male representative of a very 

 ancient English family, the branch of it from which he was descended 

 having been established as landed proprietors in the county of Gal- 

 way in Ireland since the middle of the 1 7th century. 



Sir George Leonard Staunton had some peculiar notions as to 

 education, which he endeavoured to carry out in the training of his 

 son. The son was brought up entirely at home, under his father's 

 eye ; and, except on a few very rare occasions, never associated with 



