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scientific professor, and of his amiable manners and 

 character as a gentleman. Sir Charles Giesecke was 

 very popular in Dublin, and a tablet to his memory, 

 which stands on the staircase wall of St. George's 

 Church, states that " he was beloved as a friend and 

 sought as a companion by all who knew him." His 

 portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn — the gift in 18 17 of 

 his friend, Sir George Mackenzie, bart., to the Society 

 — hangs in the reception room, Leinster House. 

 There are two small autograph albums of Giesecke's 

 in the National Museum, Dublin, which began to be 

 filled by his friends (many of them eminent scientific 

 men) in 178 1, and their contributions extend to about 

 the year 1829. The first volume is inscribed "Faut- 

 oribus amicisque sacrum." They contain original 

 sentiments and verses, with quotations in Latin, 

 French, German, English, and even Hebrew ; sketches 

 in pencil and water-colours, and silhouette portraits. 

 One volume was presented to the museum by the 

 Misses Hutton, whose father was Giesecke's executor, 

 and the other came from the collection of the late 

 Mr. Thomas H. Longfield. Very full particulars of 

 Giesecke's career will be found in an article in the 

 Dublin University Magazine ', 1834; in Mozart's 

 Operas, by Edward J. Dent (1913); in an article by 

 Professor K. J. V. Steenstrup, on Giesecke's minera- 

 logical journal kept in Greenland, together with a 

 biographical notice of Giesecke, which appeared in 

 the Meddelelsen om Gronland, Copenhagen, 19 10; and 

 in a paper on " Mozart and some of his Masonic 

 Friends," by H. Bradley, in the Ars Quatuor Corona- 

 torum, vol. xxvi. 241. 



Dr. Scouler, professor of natural history in the 

 University of Glasgow, succeeded him as professor 

 of mineralogy here. Other candidates for the post 



