OBITUARY NOTICES OF FELLOWS DECEASED 

 BETWEEN 30-TH Nov. 1863 AND 30-TH Nov. 1864. 



Capt. WILLIAM ALLEN entered the Navy in 1805. At the passage of 

 the Dardanelles, by Sir John Duckworth, he served on board 'The 

 Standard ; ' and afterwards took part in the expedition against Java. He 

 was engaged in the Niger exploration under Capt. Trotter in 1841, and in 

 1848 published an account of the Voyage, in two volumes. In 1855 he 

 brought out another work on the " Dead Sea, and the Overland Communi- 

 cation with the East," in which he recommended the cutting of a canal from 

 the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea. He was an active member of the Royal 

 Geographical Society, and was elected into the Royal Society in 1844. He 

 died in January, aged seventy-one. 



In the Rev. Dr. WILLIAM CURETON, Canon of Westminster, ancient lite- 

 rature has lost one of the ablest of Syriac scholars. His 'Corpus Ignatianum,' 

 an edition of an ancient Syriac version of the Epistles of St. Ignatius, with 

 commentaries, published in 1845, established his reputation as an Orien- 

 talist, and became the occasion of a spirited controversy which was carried 

 on for some years among students of ancient texts. This was followed by 

 an edition of a palimpsest of portions of Homer, discovered in a convent in 

 the Levant, and in 1855 by ' Spicilegium Syriacum,' in both of which 

 Dr. Cure ton exhibited profound and accurate scholarship. He was con- 

 tinuing his researches into old Syriac versions of St. Matthew's Gospel at 

 the time of his decease ; and, considering how valuable were the services he 

 rendered to that department of literature, the accident by which those 

 services were interrupted is the more to be deplored. 



Dr. Cureton was born in 1808. About two years before his death, 

 which took place at Westbury, Shropshire, on June 17, 1864, he sustained 

 so severe a shock from an accident to a railway-train in which he was tra- 

 velling, that his health remained permanently impaired. He was educated 

 at Christ Church, Oxford, and was ordained a priest in 1834 ; in 1847 he 

 was appointed Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, and in 1849 was pre- 

 ferred to a canonry of Westminster, and therewith to the rectorship of 

 St. Margaret's. Besides these ecclesiastical employments, he held for a 

 short time the place of Sublibrarian to the Bodleian Library ; in 1837 he 

 became Assistant-keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum, and was 

 afterwards appointed one of the Trustees of the Museum on the part of 

 the Crown. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1838. 



JOSEPH HENRY GREEN was born in London, on the 1st of November, 

 1791, and died at Hadley, Middlesex, on the 13th of December, 1863. 



Mr. Green's father was a merchant of high standing in the City of Lon- 

 don, and his mother was a sister of Mr. Cline, the eminent surgeon. His 

 school education was begun in this country, but completed in Germany, 

 where, accompanied by his mother, he spent three years, chiefly in Hanover. 



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