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was appropriate to his profession. His fine powers and great accom- 
plishments were adorned by a native modesty, which attracted the most 
enduring confidence of his fellow men. His rare and cultivated taste, 
his kind and gentle manners, his fidelity to every relation, his laborious 
diligence, his public services, his profound scholarship, his pure and 
spotless nature are honored on this mournful occasion, Kone brethren, 
as they will long be cherished by the whole community.” We have 
only to add to this very just delineation, our deep personal regret, from 
a friendly intercourse of several years.—B. 
Death of Bessel_—Freprricx Wm. Besama one of the most ties 
ted astronomers of the age, died after a most. distressing illness, at 
soem esi in Persia, on the 17th of March, 1846, in the 62d year of 
his , 
Deceased Members of the Royal Society. —The anniversary address 
of the president furnishes us with the names of several distinguished 
men, who have deceased during the past 
Dr. William Heberden, a Jistineyinhed kine on Hygiene ; he died 
on the 19th of February, 1845, aged 77. 
John Frederick Daniell. —We have deeds, noticed the death of 
Prof Daniell, which took place on the 13th of March, 1845, by a fit of 
appoplexy, at the age of 55, having been born in London 12th March, 
1" It is a remarkable proof of the variety and extent of Mr. Dan- 
iell’s acquirements, that he received at different times, all the medals in 
the gift of the Royal Society. 
_ Jaques Dominique Cassini, Comte du Thury, at the age of 97. He 
was the fourth in direct descent of a family, which, during nearly two 
centuries, has been singularly illustrious in the history of the sciences, 
and particularly of astronomy. He was the fifth of his family who 
had been elected a member of the Académie des Sciences. 
‘Théodore de Saussure of Geneva, son of the celebrated Alpine trav- 
eller, and an illustrious vegetable ee botanist, and meteorol- 
gist. He died April 18, 1845, aged 7 
. BipuiogRAPHY. 
oL Bpectess of the Fishes of North der ints by D. Humpureys 
Sronzn, M. D., A. A. S., &c. (4to. Cambridge, pp- 298.)—This work 
was prepared in answer to a call from the Association of American 
Geologists and Naturalists, for a paper on the “ Comparative Ichthyol- 
ogy of North America and Europe,” and- was read to that Association 
at their meeting in New Haven, May, 1845. ‘Subsequently it was pre- 
sented to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for publication, 
and constitutes one of the pee of the volume of their transactions, 
just from the press. 
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