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Of Mr. Ellis, however, it may be said that nihil tetiijit quod nan 

 ornavit, and, not content with translating excellently the 640 closely 

 printed pages of the original, he ornamented it with a mass of 

 elaborate theoretical matter of his own, amounting, in notes and 

 appendices, to about 60 per cent. more. A second edition was 

 published in 1885, to which large farther additions were made. 



He wrote other essays on musical subjects, among which were two 

 important ones on the much-debated subject of musical pitch, read 

 before the Society of Arts in 1877 and 1880, and rewarded by silver 

 medals. The last paper he presented to the Royal Society, the end 

 of 1884, was a joint one by himself and Mr. A. J. Hipkins, " On the 

 Musical Scales of Various Nations," and this was followed, in March, 

 1 885, by a larger one on the same topic at the Society of Arts. He 

 farther endeavoured to make his phonetic knowledge practically 

 useful to the musical art by an excellent little work on Pronunciation 

 for Singers. 



Mr. Ellis was elected into the Royal Society on the 2nd June, 

 1864. He had previously made several communications to the 

 Society, and he was afterwards a frequent contributor to its Proceed- 

 ings. He served on the Council from 1880 to 1882. 



He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1870, and 

 in June, 1890. he was presented by the University of Cambridge 

 with the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters. 



It must be added that Mr. Ellis was highly esteemed by all who 

 knew him or had transactions with him, for his amiability of 

 character and his zealous, sincere, and unselfish devotion to the 

 spread of knowledge. But few men have possessed his depth of 

 acquirements, or his power of application, and still fewer have used 

 them so well. 



About six years ago, he issued a circular to his friends, intimating 

 that the few years of his life he could reckon on would be fully 

 occupied by the completion of his great work, and requesting them to 

 disturb him as little as possible till it was done. The concluding 

 volume appeared, as has been said, in 1889 ; and he immediately 

 afterwards wrote an abridgement of it, which was published sepa- 

 rately in 1890. He had had, however, a severe shock in the death of 

 his wife; his health began to give way, and he died on the 28th of 

 October, 1890. 



W. P. 



Professor JOHN MARSHALL, F.R.C.S., died on the morning of the 

 1st of January, 1891, at his residence, "Bellevue," Cheyne Walk, 

 Chelsea, to which he had removed in the preceding summer from the 

 house in Savile Row where he had spent the greater part of his 

 professional life. He had for some years been in failing health, 



