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lowered into the grave, and afterwards carried him with me to the 

 Alps. Prior to joining me at Chamounix, he had three days of lonely- 

 wandering ; communing with himself under his changed conditions. 

 We made the little auberge at the Montanvert, which was then a very 

 small affair, our permanent residence. For six weeks his life was 

 filled with healthy exercise, under conditions where constant atten- 

 tion was necessary to his personal safety. Nothing could have been 

 better calculated to divert his mind from the grief which weighed 

 upon it. A few days after our arrival, we were joined by Professor 

 Huxley. As we assembled night after night round our pine- wood fire, 

 life became to all of us more and more a thing to be enjoyed. We 

 returned from the Alps, Hirst halting in Paris, where for some time 

 he took up his abode. Here he made the acquaintance and secured 

 the friendship of the foremost mathematicians. He went afterwards 

 to Italy ; and was at the village of Solferino, helping the wounded, 

 on the day after the battle. In Italy he met Professor Cremona, 

 who remained his friend in a very special sense to the end of 

 his life. On his return to London, Hirst became mathematical 

 master in University College School, then Professor of Applied 

 Mathematics in University College. For the sake of his health, he 

 afterwards accepted the Assistant Registrarship of the University, 

 His final appointment was to the Post of Director of Studies in the 

 Royal Naval College, Greenwich, under the presidency of Admiral 

 Sir Cooper Key, who was succeeded by Admiral Fanshawe ; Mr. 

 Goschen was at the time of his appointment First Lord of the 

 Admiralty. Hirst never forgot the Minister's high-minded sympathy 

 with his mathematical studies, or his willingness so to arrange 

 matters as to reconcile the prosecution of those studies with his 

 duties as Director. 



During his later years, the state of Hirst's health frequently caused 

 his friends the gravest anxiety. He relinquished in succession the 

 posts he had occupied, retiring finally from Greenwich with a Govern- 

 ment pension. During the present calamitous year, he was smitten 

 with influenza, to which he finally succumbed. 



I have already given an example of Hirst's kindness of heart. 

 To this it may be added that, apart from his scientific labours, his 

 life throughout was one of wise beneficence. 



J. T. 



EDWARD KILLWICK CALVER, born 1813, entered the Royal Navy in 

 1828, in the navigating branch, on board H.M.S. "Crocodile." 

 After a further term of foreign service in the " Satellite," he in 1836 

 commenced his long period of service as a marine surveyor on the 

 Home Station. For thirty-six years, with scarcely a break, he served 

 m this capacity mainly on the south and east coasts of Great Britain. 



