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dose of chloral accidentally administered to him in mistake for 

 sulphate of magnesia. In the presence of a very large number of his 

 friends and admirers, his remains were interred in Haslemere Chnrch- 

 yard on the 9th of December, the coffin bearing the following 

 inscription: "John Tyndall, died December 4th, 1893, aged 73 

 years." E. F. 



SIR SAMCKL WHITE BAKER was bom at Thorngrove, near Wor- 

 cester, on the 8th June, 1821. He was the eldest son of Samuel 

 Baker, of Lypiatt Park, Gloucester. 



At the age of twenty-four he went to Ceylon, where he was en- 

 gaged in agricultural pursuits in company with one of his brothers. 



He has given an interesting account of life and sport in Ceylon in 

 two works, which he afterwards published. 



After quitting Ceylon, where it is understood his farming opera- 

 tions had not been a success, he was engaged for some time in Eastern 

 Europe on the Rnschuk and Varna Railway. 



In 1860, Speke and Grant set out from Zanzibar, commissioned by 

 the Royal Geographical Society of London to follow up the discovery 

 of the Victoria Lake and trace the Nile should it be found to be 

 connected with that Lake. Baker determined to go at his own 

 expense by way of Cairo, in order to meet bis friends, and, if 

 possible, render them the help of which they would stand in need. 

 Setting out in 1861, he ascended the Nile, and was fortunate in 

 meeting Speke and Grant at Gondokoro, thus enabling them to com- 

 plete their journey, while he, aided by indications given him by these 

 travellers, pressed south and discovered the Albert Nyanza, through 

 which the Nile was found to flow. 



On Baker's return to Europe he received, in recognition of his 

 services, the honour of knighthood. He was also awarded for his 

 geographical discoveries, the Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical 

 Society and that of Paris, and was elected an Honorary M.A. of 

 Cambridge, where he afterwards was Rede Lecturer in 1874. 



In the year 1870 he returned to Egypt in the service of the 

 Khedive, he ascended the Nile to Gondokoro in command of a well- 

 equipped Egyptian force, and was for two years engaged in establish- 

 ing the claims of Egypt to dominions on the Upper Nile. For this 

 he was made a Pasha and Major-General in the Turkish service. 



The remainder of his life was spent in foreign travel and at his 

 home at Sandford Orleigh, near Newton Abbot, where he died 

 December 30th, 1893. He became a P.R.S. in 1869. 



J. K. 



