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His only important contribution to Indian geology after he left the 

 Indian Survey, was a paper published by the Geological Society in 

 1875, ' On the Age and Correlation of the Plant-bearing Series of 

 India and the former existence of an Indo-Oceanic Continent.' He 

 also contributed a few short papers to Indian scientific societies on 

 land and fresh-water mollusca and on ferns. He was the author of 

 two treatises on the geography of India, one of which has now for 

 many years been used as a text-book in Indian schools and colleges, 

 and the other, a recent publication, forms one of Macmillan's geo- 

 graphical series. Mr. Blanford married, in 1867, the daughter of 

 Mr. G. F. Cockburn, of the Bengal Civil Service, and leaves a 

 widow, one son, an officer in the Royal Artillery, and three daughters. 

 He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1880, and was 

 President of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1884-85. His health 

 had been precarious for some time before he retired from the Indian 

 Service, and he died of cancer at Folkestone, where he had resided 

 after his return to England, on the 23rd January of the present 

 year. W. T. B. 



Dr. WILLIAM CHARLES HENRY was born in Manchester, March 31, 

 1804. His father and grandfather were both Fellows of this Society, 

 and both distinguished chemists. He was educated at various schools, 

 and matriculated at Edinburgh University in November, 1824. In 

 ]827 he graduated M.D., the subject of his graduation thesis being 

 " De Tuberculorum Origine," and in the following winter studied in 

 the Paris hospitals, attending as well the lectures at the Sorbonne. 

 From 1828 to 1835 he was physician to the Manchester Royal In- 

 firmary, but resigned this post in order to continue his chemical 

 studies. He studied at Berlin and Giessen, and afterwards returned 

 to Manchester. Leaving Manchester about 1842, he took up his re- 

 sidence at Ledbury and remained there until his death on January 7, 

 1892. 



Dr. Henry was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1834; he 

 was also a Fellow of the Chemical and Geological Societies, and a 

 Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Turin. 

 He was the author of papers " On the Relation existing between 

 Nerve and Muscle " (' Roy. Soc. Proc.,' 1831, p. 64), " On the Physio- 

 logy of the Nervous System" ('Brit. Assoc. Rep.,' 1833), " On the 

 Atomic Constitution of Elastic Fluids" (' Phil. Mag.,' 1834), '.'On 

 the Action of Metals in determining Gaseous Combination " (' Phil. 

 Mag.,' 1835), "On Gaseous Interference" ('Brit. Assoc. Rep.,' 

 1836), and was the author of " Memoirs of the Life and Scientific 

 Researches of John Dalton " (Cavendish Society, 1854), Dalton 

 having been one of his most intimate friends. M. F. 



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