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of Bolsover Moor, in Derbyshire. This was the last scientific work 

 on which Dr. Smith was engaged; a cold caught the following 

 year brought on diarrhoea, which terminated fatally. He died on 

 the 28th of August, in his seventy-first year, and was buried at 

 Northampton, at the west end of the church of All Saints, in which, 

 at the suggestion of Dr. Buckland, a tablet was erected to his 

 memory, the expense of which was defrayed by a subscription 

 among geologists. Memoirs of William Smith. LL.D.. by his nephew. 

 John Phillips, FM.S., F. G.S. London, 1844. 



EARL STANHOPE, F.R.S. 



Born August 3, 1753. Died December 17, 1816. 



Charles Stanhope, third earl of that name, was born at Chevening 

 in Kent, and was sent at a very early period to Eton ; but at the 

 age of ten he removed with his family to Geneva, where he was 

 placed under the tuition of M. Le Sage, a well-known man of lei t ITS 

 in that place. There can be but little doubt that the whole political 

 career of Earl Stanhope was deeply influenced by the circumstance 

 of _ his receiving his early education in this republican city ; and to 

 this may be ascribed the extreme views which he entertained in 

 after life respecting civil liberty and other points affecting the wel- 

 fare of great communities. 



While acquiring these sentiments, Lord Stanhope was at the 

 same time pursuing a course of training which subsequently made 

 him so remarkable, as a man of science and letters. Natural phi- 

 losophy was his chief study ; and the knowledge which he acquired 

 of this subject was decisively shewn by his gaining, at the early 

 age of eighteen, a prize offered by the Stockholm Society of Arts 

 for the best essay, written in French, on the pendulum ; and this 

 essay was the more remarkable, as lieini;- the fruit not only of mere 

 reading, but of numerous original experiments, performed by him in 

 person. 



Shortly after attaining his majority, Lord Stanhope, together 

 with his family, left Geneva, amidst the regrets of the whole popu- 

 lation, while crowds of poor people assembled to take a last look on 

 the noble English residents who had long been their generous bene- 

 factors. On reaching England, the family rank and influence of the 

 young nobleman speedily procured him -a scat in the House of 

 Commons, which he occupied until his succession to the Stanhope 

 title called him to the Upper House of Parliament. Here it was 

 that he became famous as a politician. Honesty and straight- 



