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whose right hand he sat, and whose place in the chair he 

 had so fitly and worthily occupied from time to time, so 

 eloquently and feelingly, and as it were, forebodingly, uttered 

 on the afternoon of the same day in his concluding speech, 

 that possibly some of those then present might not meet 

 together at the next anniversary, should so soon and so fatally 

 be fulfilled! My departed, long valued, and ever-to-be-lamented 

 friend lost his life literally through his devotion to science, hav- 

 ing gone on the line to examine a geological formation; and 

 sure I am that in every relation of life his loss will never 

 be forgotten, as it can never be repaired. On one only other 

 occasion in my life, when another valued friend, W. V. J. 

 Surtees, was most unfortunately drowned at Oxford, have 

 I ever had such a shock as the sudden account of his death. 

 Peace to the memory of the departed. How little do we 

 know 'what a day may bring forth!' 



