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ter of his researches; or the real progress he had made 

 in the discovery of phonetic heiroglyphics many years be- 

 fore Champollion had made his appearance in the field." 

 Within the walls of the village church of Farn- 

 borough, Kent, in the family vault of his wife, lie the 

 remains of Thomas Young. On the church wall is a 

 white marble slab with an inscription, the original of 

 which, composed by Mr. Hudson Gurney, stands under 

 Chantrey's medallion of Young in Westminster Abbey. 

 It runs thus : 



SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF 



THOMAS YOUNG, M.D., 



FELLOW AND FOREIGN SECRETARY OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, 

 MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FRANCE; 



A MAN ALIKE EMINENT 

 IN ALMOST EVERY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN LEARNING. 



PATIENT OF UNINTERMITTED LABOUR, 

 ENDOWED WITH THE FACULTY OF INTUITIVE PERCEPTION, 



WHO, BRINGING AN EQUAL MASTERY 

 TO THE MOST ABSTRUSE INVESTIGATIONS 



OF LETTERS AND OF SCIENCE, 



FIRST ESTABLISHED THE UNDULATORY THEORY OF LIGHT, 



AND FIRST PENETRATED THE OBSCURITY 



WHICH HAD VEILED FOR AGES 



THE HIEROGLYPHICS OF EGYPT. 



ENDEARED TO HIS FRIENDS BY HIS DOMESTIC VIRTUES, 

 HONOURED BY THE WORLD FOR HIS UNRIVALLED ACQUIREMENTS, 

 HE DIED IN THE HOPES OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE JUST. 



BORN AT MILVERTON, IN SOMERSETSHIRE, JUNE 13TH, 1773; 



DIED IN PARK SQUARE, LONDON, MAY 10TH, 1829, 



IN THE 56TH YEAR OF HIS AGE. 



