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after a year and a half was forced to resign through ill-health. He was afterwards made 

 Comptroller of Steam Machinery to the Admiralty, a post which he held for nearly nine 

 years, during which time the duties of his office became every day more arduous ; and in 

 December, 1846, he received the appointment to the post of Captain Superintendent of 

 the Royal Clarence Yard and of the Naval Hospital at Haslar. He took a prominent 

 part in the founding of a sailors' home at Portsmouth; and in 1852 had to resign 

 his post at Haslar in consequence of attaining his rear-admiral's flag. At the close of 





DR. (AFTERWARDS SIR) JOHN RICHARDSON. 



the following year he was made Governor of Greenwich Hospital, and died on the 8th 

 of July, 1855, at Ems. His remains were brought to England and buried in the 

 mausoleum at Greenwich Hospital. 



Parry's Polar journey can hardly be dismissed without some reference to the re- 

 markable expeditions made by Wrangell, the great Russian explorer. Between 1820 

 and 1823 inclusive he made four expeditions on the ice northward from the Siberian 

 coast, starting from the town or settlement of Nijni Kolymsk, on the Kolyma River. 

 These excursions were made with dog sledges, and the condition of the ice must 

 therefore have been much superior to that encountered by Parry, who found that the 

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