280 OBITUARY. 



fellow-countryman and fellow-soldier, Sir R. Murchison. — Abridged from 

 the Athenaeum. 



Louis Hersent, French painter. 



Pbofessob Jan Gkefs, of the Royal Academy at Antwerp, one of the most 

 eminent Belgian sculptors. 



Gotthilf Heineich Yon Schubert, the natural philosopher. 



Gooderich, the American " Peter Parley," compiler of several pleasant boots of 

 science for the young. 



The Hev. Baden Powell, Savilian Professor of Sanscrit at Oxford University. 

 His first published work was On Revelation and Science, in 1833. His latest 

 book was The Order of Nature, published in lis.jO. Between these dates he 

 gave to the world a number of books, tracts, and articles on the religion of 

 science and the science of religion,— the most noticeable of which were The 

 Connexion of Dicine andXutural Truth (1838), — 'tradition Unveiled (1889), 

 with its Supplement in the following year, — and Christianity without Judaism 

 (1867). Sir. Powell was much engaged in controversy, and took an active 

 part in the proceedings of the Society of Arts and of the Royal Institution. 

 One of Professor Baden Powell's latest Labours was his masterly paper " On 

 the Studyof the Evidences of Christianity," in the 0*f Or i^uags and E< 

 the most striking work of its class published during the past year. 



Alexandre Gabriel Decamps, French painter. 



Rl. Hon. James Wilson, statist, and writer on political economy ; founder of 

 the Economist journal. 



Duke Pail of W crtf.mberg, for many years so well known as an indefatigable 

 traveller in the service of science. His travels extended over nearlv every 

 part of the world; the result of his earlier journeys to Egypt, America, and 

 Australia has been laid down in several works, and a series of letters to the 

 Augsburg Alii/emeine Zeitung. Hislatest travels, from 1849 to 1858, stretched 

 over the whole continent of America (inclusive of California) and Australia. 

 His castle, Mergentheini, near Stuttgart, contains, besides the many trophies 

 from his travels, one of the largest ornithological collections in existanoa. 



Salter Livesay, M.D., F.L.S., Surgeon R.N., conchologist, microseopist, and 

 artist. 



-Jbsse Hartley, the engineer of the Liverpool Docks. Mr. Hartley, who was 

 upwards of eighty years of age, was a native of the North Hiding of York- 

 shire, and after receiving an ordinary education, ser\ed his apprenticeship 

 as a stonemason, and worked at the building of Borough-bridge. Sub- 

 sequently, he succeeded his father as bridge-master in tin- district named, 

 until his removal to Liverpool, on receiving the appointment of engineer to 

 the Dock Committee. During tho long period in which he held the re- 

 sponsible office of dock engineer in Liverpool, Mr. Hartley altered, or 

 entirely constructed every dock belonging to the town. Besides this, hewafl 

 Employed as engineer for tho Bolton and Manchester Railway and Canal; 

 he was ako consulting engineer for the Dee Bridge at Chester, tho cen- 

 tring for which was considered a great triumph. 



Jbllingeb C. Stmons, one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools. Thetitle of 

 tho various pamphlets, lectures, spoonhoe. SO., and treatises on educa- 

 tional and social subjects which lie published, till upwards Of si v pajgwin tho 

 new catalogue of the British Museum. Mr. Symons is also known and re- 

 membered fbr a controversy which he carried 00 against Dr. \\ licucll 

 respecting the revolution of the moon on its axis, and for an interesting 

 essay on the authorship of Junius. 



"Perhaps, with the single evecptioii of OattOO Ifoaftlay, of Bristol, there 

 W8S no one who.se name w a I lam c w idely know n than Mr. Sj nions m con- 

 nexion with the great modern educational and reformatory movements. 

 It must be ac Know le. Iced, however, that hi SUDOl so sound a mat hematieiaii 

 as coul. I have been desired. Mis letters on " the flotation of the Moon," 

 which appeared twoor three \cnrs since, partly in the M*cha,iics' Ma.jatine, 

 and partly in the Times, must have astonished and pained every real mathe- 

 matician/' — Mechanic*' Magazine. 



Da. Thomas Fobsi ib, the indefatigable meteorologist. 



John NAWMT, Profeaaor of Mat hematics at Sandhurst. 



Db. Bow in; a, the bold traveller, killed in Mi bed by u poisoned arrow, while in 

 the western part of Zuniihar. 



