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the Army and the Fleet. But the repression was brief, 

 for the great success of the book and the stir which it made 

 compelled the authorities to withdraw their futile attempts 

 to stifle it. The author was awarded the cross of the Legion 

 of Honour, and was afterwards created a baron. He was 

 made much of in Britain by politicians and learned societies. 

 Many years later he took an active part in furthering French 

 interests in the preparations for the great Exhibition of 1851. 



The visitors from the British Isles and the Colonies in- 

 cluded a number of notable men. Among them there 

 appears on the January dinner-lists the name of " Sir George 

 Cockburn." It happened at this time that there were 

 two knights of this name, one in the Navy and one in the 

 Army. No indication is supplied by the register as to which 

 of the two Sir Humphry Davy invited. The representative 

 of the army was a General who had been aide-de-camp to 

 Eliot t, the brave defender of Gibraltar, and in later years 

 had journeyed through Sicily and published notes of his 

 travels. The naval man was an Admiral who had seen much 

 active life in the Mediterranean, the North Sea and North 

 America, but who will be best remembered for having 

 conveyed Napoleon to St. Helena in 1815. 



" Mr. Peacock " was probably the Rev. George Peacock, 

 Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, a distinguished mathe- 

 matician, who became Lowndean Professor of Astronomy 

 and afterwards Dean of Ely. 



" Mr. James South," a guest of the President on April 

 1 2th, was doubtless the astronomer who had engaged in 

 observational work with the younger Herschel in London 

 and with Laplace in Paris, and was one of the founders of 

 the Astronomical Society. He was knighted in 1830. 



" Dr. Ure " may be identified as Andrew lire, Professor 

 of Chemistry in Anderson's College, Glasgow, and widely 

 known for his useful dictionaries of chemistry, and of arts, 

 manufactures and mines. He was elected F.R.S. on I3th 

 December this year. 



" Dr. M'Culloch," invited by Sir Humphry Davy on 

 June 2ist, may have been John Macculloch the geologist, 



