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tions of University students for practical instruction, he provided a 

 subsidiary observatory on the roof of the lecture room for their special 

 use. Recently he erected a more convenient building, which he fur- 

 nished with some excellent instruments. Every accommodation was 

 thus provided for the instruction of the students, without in any way 

 interfering with the larger instruments reserved solely for research. 



Professor Pritchard proceeded to the degree of M.A. (Cantab.) in 

 1833, M.A. by decree (Oxon.) in 1870, and B.D. and D.D. in 1880. 

 He was ordained Deacon in 1833, and Priest in 1834. On taking up 

 his residence at Oxford, he attached himself to New College, of which, 

 as Savilian Professor of Astronomy, he became a Fellow in 1883. He 

 was elected, in 1886, an Honorary Fellow of St. John's College, Cam- 

 bridge an honour he greatly esteemed. He was a Fellow of the 

 Royal Society for more than half a century, having been elected so 

 long ago as February 6, 1840. He served on the Council two 

 years, from November, 1885 to 1887, and at the Anniversary Meeting 

 held on November 30, 1892, he was presented with one of the Royal 

 Medals for his successful labours on photometry and stellar parallax. 

 He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society on April 

 13, 1849, and was a continuous member of the Council from 1856 to 

 1877, and from 1883 to 1887. In 1886 he was awarded the Gold 

 Medal of that Society for his ' Photometric Researches.' He was 

 also a Fellow of the Geological Society and the Cambridge Philo- 

 sophical Society. As Savilian Professor of Astronomy, he was an 

 ex-ojficio member of the Board of Visitors of the Royal Observatory, 

 Greenwich. 



The great age to which Professor Pritchard attained never inter- 

 fered with his determination to make the University Observatory a 

 first class institution. His mental faculties were unclouded to the 

 end; he was always able to keep abreast with the newest problems 

 in the physics of astronomy, and it was a frequent and pleasing sight 

 to witness the venerable astronomer enter into the depths of a 

 technical discussion, with all the interest and energy of youth. In 

 the midst of his scientific and University career, he did not, however, 

 forget the busy time he had passed with his pupils in his old school at 

 Clapham. In 1886, soon after he had received both scientific and 

 college honours, it was a great joy to him to receive an invitation to 

 a complimentary banquet at the Albion, Aldersgate Street, from his 

 " Old Boys," among whom grisly beards and grey heads predomi- 

 nated. An interesting result of this social meeting of his old pupils, 

 presided over by the Dean of Westminster, was a small volume, 

 written by him for private distribution, full of pleasing reminiscences 

 of his former school life. 



Professor Pritchard was twice married : (1) at Lambeth, on 

 December 18, 1834, to Emily, fifth daughter of J. Newton, Esq. ; and 



