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be surprised at the comparison. Yet our great soldier might have 

 accepted the illustration without dissatisfaction. Whatever art 

 Brodie undertook, if he has been correctly drawn, he would have 

 entirely mastered. The self-discipline of the strongest man can 

 effect no more. The care with which the two men compassed every 

 detail and surveyed every bearing of a large question, the quiet good 

 sense, the steadiness of purpose, the readiness of wide professional 

 knowledge in critical emergencies, were in each mind alike. The 

 public and his profession esteemed Brodie as the first in his art. 

 He advised three successive Sovereigns, and from one had the only 

 other mark of esteem which a Sovereign can bestow a Title. He 

 was made a Corresponding Member of the French Institute in 1844, 

 and received the Honorary Diploma in Civil Law from the University 

 of Oxford in 1855. He was elected the President of the Royal So- 

 ciety in 1 858, and became the first President of the Medical Council 

 under the Act for regulating the Education and Registration of the 

 Medical Profession ; but he resigned both offices in two years, on 

 account of the advancing failure of his eyes. 



It remains to be recorded that in 1816 Mr. Brodie married the 

 daughter of Serjeant Sellon, and survived her two years. By her he 

 had issue two sons and a daughter. Of these, the eldest, the present 

 possessor of the Baronetcy, like his father, received early in life one 

 of the Medals of the Royal Society, and is now the distinguished 

 Professor of Chemistry in the University of Oxford. 



FRANCESCO CARLINI was born in Milan on the 7th of January 

 1783. His father, Carlo Giuseppe Carlini, a native of Cremona, was 

 one of the librarians of the Brera, and was eminent as a Bibliographer. 

 He died in 1 789. His ancestors came, it is said, from Linz in Austria. 



At an early age Francesco Carlini manifested a taste for astro- 

 nomy, and was in the habit of making calculations for Oriani, 

 Reggio, and Cesaris, the astronomers of the Brera. In 1 799 he was 

 admitted to the Observatory as a pupil, was appointed one of the 

 commissioners of weights and weasures for the kingdom of Italy 

 soon afterwards, and in 1804 was promoted to the rank of super- 

 numerary astronomer. In 1803 he made observations of Pallas in 

 opposition, and continued his observations of this and the other 

 small planets up to 1816. Between 1814 and 1818 he constructed 



