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On the death of Angelo de Cesaris in 1832, Carlini was appointed 

 Director of the Observatory of the Brera. He was a good analyst, 

 understood five modern languages, was the author of various 

 scientific biographies, and was one of the editors of the * Biblioteca 

 Italiana' from 1826 to 1840. 



The list of his writings appended to the notice of his life read 

 before the Istituto Lombardo contains one hundred and forty-four 

 titles. Most of these, exclusive of separate works, are to be found 

 in the appendices to the ' Effemeridi astronomiche di Milano ' from 

 1805 to 1863, the 'Memorie dell' Istituto Lombardo- Veneto/ the 

 Memorie, Atti, and Giornale dell' Istituto Lombardo, the ' Biblio- 

 teca Italiana/ the 'Memorie della Societa Italiana/ the 'Monat- 

 liche Correspondenz ' and * Correspondance Astronomique ' of von 

 Zach, and the ' Zeitschrift fur Astronomic* of von Lindenau and 

 Bolmenberger. 



Carlini presided for many years over the Istituto Lombardo- 

 Veneto, afterwards the Istituto Lombardo, and was a member of the 

 principal Italian Academies. He was foreign member of the Insti- 

 tute, of the Astronomical Society, and of the Academies of Vienna, 

 Gottingen, and Berlin. The date of his election as foreign member 

 of the Royal Society is 1832. 



In 1832 Carlini married Gabriella Sabatelli, the daughter of an 

 eminent artist. She survives him. He was amiable in private life, 

 and of spotless character. He remained free from infirmity, either 

 bodily or mental, up to the age of nearly eighty years, and was able 

 to compute the elements of the second comet of 1862 only a month 

 before his death, which occurred, after a short but painful illness, 

 at Crodo in Ossola, on the 29th of August 1862. The foregoing 

 particulars of his life and labours are extracted from a biographical 

 notice read before the R. Istituto Lombardo, on the 8th December 

 1862, by his successor as Director of the Observatory of the Brera, 

 G. V. Schiaparelli. 



JAMES ORMISTON M'WILLIAM, M.D., was a native of Dalkeith 

 in Scotland, and was educated in Edinburgh, where he obtained his 

 medical degree from the University, and the diploma of Licentiate 

 from the Royal College of Surgeons. In 1829 he entered the Navy, 

 and, after serving for a time on a foreign station, attained the rank 



