with the title "Mental Dynamics." But as years advanced, certain 

 threatening bodily ailments warned him that it was time to utilize in a 

 systematic and communicable form, at least a part of the fruits of his 

 vast preparatory labour ; and he accordingly determined to complete a work 

 which should give in system the doctrines, especially the theological and 

 ethical doctrines, which he deemed most distinctively Coleridgian ; and to 

 this he devoted what in effect proved to be the whole available remainder 

 of his life. The result is a work in two volumes published under the 

 editorship of Mr. Simon. The first volume is devoted to the general 

 principles of philosophy, while the second is entirely theological, and espe- 

 cially aims at vindicating a priori (on principles for which the first volume 

 has contended), the essential doctrines of Christianity. 



The mental qualities and character of Mr. Green will be found ably de- 

 lineated in Mr. Simon's memoir; suffice it here to say that his life, both 

 private and public, was a life of benevolence, probity, truth, and honour. 



Mr. HUDSON GURNEY, who died at the advanced age of ninety-five, was 

 one of the well-known Norfolk family of that name, members of the Society 

 of Friends, and through his wife was connected with the Barclays of Ury. 

 He was for many years a leading Member of the House of Commons, dis- 

 tinguished by the favour he showed to men of letters, and the literary and 

 art collections which he formed. In 1811 he published a poem, 'Cupid 

 and Psyche,' based on the Golden Ass of Apuleius. He was elected a 

 Fellow of the Royal Society in 1818. 



LEONARD HORNER, the third and youngest son of Mr. John Homer, 

 linen-merchant in Edinburgh, was born on the 17th of January, 1785. It 

 was but natural that with an early enthusiasm for science he should have 

 become a geologist ; for in Edinburgh at that time Button, Hall, Playfair, 

 and a band of zealous followers, by observation in the field and by experi- 

 ment in the workshop, were gathering materials for a new philosophy of 

 geology, and were waging a keen warfare with the partizans of Werner. 

 The year of Mr. Homer's birth was that in which Button's famous 

 excursion to the granite of Glen Tilt was made. He was three years old 

 when that philosopher unfolded his new theory to the Royal Society of 

 Edinburgh, and he had grown up to be a High School boy of ten years of 

 age when the immortal 'Theory of the Earth' was published. At that 

 time, indeed, according to his own confession, he was a thoughtless youth 

 with no special liking for study, and a vague passion for the sea. But these 

 scientific discussions had not come to a close when he grew up to be able to 

 understand and take an interest in them, and their influence is to be traced 

 throughout his life. He entered the University of Edinburgh in 1 799, and 

 attended the lectures of Playfair on Mathematics. In 1802 he was study- 

 ing moral philosophy under Dugald Stewart, and chemistry with Hope ; 

 and it, was when fairly launched into these studies that his mind took that 



