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of Armagh Observatory, 1823 ; rector of Carrickmacross, 

 1824-82 ; president, Koyal Irish Academy, 1851-56 ; inventor 

 of cup-anemometer. 



1850, Edinburgh. Sir David BREWSTER (1781-1868), 

 F.B.S. ; licensed preacher, 1804 ; editor, Edinburgh Magazine 

 (later Philosophical Journal, and Journal of Science), 1802 

 seqq.; editor, Edinburgh Encyclopaedia (1807-29); first 

 director, Eoyal Scottish Soc. of Arts, 1821 ; Kt., 1821 ; 

 principal, Colls, of St. Salvator and St. Leonard, St. Andrews 

 Univ., 1838 ; vice-chancellor, Edinburgh Univ., 1860 ; 

 president, Eoyal Soc. Edinburgh, 1864 ; optical investiga- 

 tions ; discoveries in polarisation of light ; invention of 

 kaleidoscope. 



1851, Ipswich. [Sir] George Biddell AIRY (1801-92), 

 F.E.S., Lucasian professor of mathematics, Cambridge 

 Univ., 1826 ; Plumian professor of astronomy and director 

 of observatory, itfnd., 1828 ; astronomer-royal, 1835-81 ; pre- 

 sident, Eoyal Astron. Soc., 1835-37, 1849-51, 1853-55, 

 1863-64 ; president, Eoyal Soc., 1871-73 ; K.C.B., 1872. 



1852, Belfast. [Sir] Edward SABINE (1788-1883), 

 F.E.S. ; saw active service in N. America, 1814 ; Lieut. - 

 Colonel, 1851 ; General, 1870; astronomer on Arctic expedi- 

 tions of Eoss and Parry, 1818-20 ; voyages for experiments 

 on terrestrial magnetism, 1821, 1823 ; magnetic survey of 

 British Isles, 1834-36, 1861 ; superintended system of 

 magnetic observations in the Empire ; general secretary, 

 B.A., 1839-52, 1853-59 ; president, Eoyal Soc., 1861-71 ; 

 K.C.B., 1869. 



1853, Hull. William HOPKINS (1793-1866), F.B.S., 

 mathematician and geologist ; coach at Cambridge ; in- 

 vestigated movement of glaciers, condition of interior of 

 the earth, etc. ; president, Geological Soc., 1851 ; general 

 secretary, B.A., 1861-65. 



1854, Liverpool. The Earl of HARROWBY (1798-1882), 

 F.E.S. [Dudley Eyder, 2nd Earl, 1847] ; M.P., 1819 seqq. ; 

 chancellor, Duchy of Lancaster, 1855 ; P.C., 1855 ; lord 

 privy seal, 1855-57 ; KG., 1859. 



1855, Glasgow. The Duke of ARGYLL (1823-1900), 



