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which especially deserves to have its merits prominently set forth is 

 his magnetic survey of the Antarctic regions. This is justly held to 

 be the greatest work of the kind ever performed, and it was under- 

 taken at the special desire of the Royal Society and the British 

 Association. An account of the magnetic observations made by Sir 

 James Ross in the first and second of the three Antarctic voyages 

 was published in the ' Philosophical Transactions ' by his friend 

 General Sabine ; and it is hoped that the labours of the third voyage 

 and the coordination of the three years' work will be laid before the 

 Society in the next session. The completeness with which the great 

 and hazardous enterprise was carried out renders a full exposition of 

 what was accomplished all the more requisite for a just apprecia- 

 tion of the merits of its gallant and skilful conductor ; and the pro- 

 priety of waiting until this has been given will, it is conceived, be 

 generally recognized. 



EDWARD STANLEY, Esq., Surgeon Extraordinary to the Queen, 

 and Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, died suddenly, in one of 

 the wards of that Institution, on the 24th of May 1862, at the age 

 of severity. 



Mr. Stanley, after receiving his general education at Merchant 

 Taylors' School, was, in 1808, apprenticed to Mr. Ramsden, at 

 that time one of the Surgeons of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on 

 whose death he was transferred to Mr. Abernethy. To this great 

 master the pupil soon recommended himself by his earnestness in 

 study, and especially by his devotion to anatomy and pathology ; 

 and through their joint labours was created the Hospital Museum of 

 Morbid Anatomy, to which Mr. Stanley especially contributed many 

 preparations illustrative of diseases of the bones and joints. This 

 important collection they afterwards liberally presented, as a gift, 

 to the Hospital. Mr. Stanley's acquirements in anatomy, and his 

 well-directed zeal in its pursuit, led to his appointment as Demon- 

 strator, and, after holding that office for some years, he joined 

 Mr. Abernethy in 1826 in lecturing on anatomy and physiology, and 

 continued to discharge this duty after the death of his eminent 

 colleague, until 1843. In the meantime he had been, in 1816, 

 elected Assistant Surgeon, and twenty-two years later, Surgeon to 

 the Hospital; and he continued in that office until 1861, when, 



