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8, Anesthesis.—The Imperial eoqesioryn of the Majidieh” of the 
fifth class, a Decoration named after the Sultan, the Founder, has been 
conferred by the Sultan of Torkey on Dr. C. T. Jackson of Boston, as 
an expression of the Sultan’s ‘estimation of his discoveries, and a 
mark of his Imperial favor.” 
9. Ozituary.—Sir Henry Thomas de la Beche, (Ath., April 21, 
1854.)—Sir Henry pe La Becue was an example of that rare com- 
bination, a man of science and a man of the world. He succeeded in 
obtaining the end at which he aimed; and he has left in the Geological 
Survey arid the Museum of Practical Geology enduring inonuments. 
A notice of the labors of such a man,—who was thorouglily practical 
before the commencement of this practic age, and who aimed at ed- 
ucating the people in science long before the Great Exhibition made 
Sie education a fishion,2cannot Kis be of interest. Sg 
nry Thomas De la Beche was the eldest son of Col. De la 
his family being descendants from the Barons De la Bech 
settled at Aldworth, Berks, in the time of caw 
in London in 1796; but his youth was pas 
lovely aie of Devonshire: his first education: having been received 
at the School of Ottery Saint Mary. s litle doubt that the ge- 
ological tendencies which were yea Paéveloped were due to the 
contemplation of nature in this loca id in the scenes around Char- 
movth and Lyme Refis—rich in o organic remains,—which places were 
for some time the ee of his parents. 
10, Mr. Beche entered Ne 4 ‘Royal Military College, then 
pat ea “Marlow, but Ae Fepoeet | to Sandhurst ; on leaving 
. entered ‘the # my: but ina little time he resigned the pro- 
fession of arms for fhe’ pursuits of science. Fora man of wealth and 
fashion to devote himself to any Study was in those days a phenome- 
non; and the adoption of a science then in its infancy and struggling 
Into life, through the prejuulces of the ignorant and the timid, was not 
a little remarkable. 
r. De la Beche, however, gave himself* ey a the study of Geology 
and made it the business of his life. In 1817 he became a member of 
the Geological Society, then in the tenth ent of its existence. In 
1818 he married the daughter of Capt. Charles White, of Lough Brick- 
land, County Down, Ireland, who died in 1844, leaving one daughter. 
The | year 1819 was spent by Mr. De la Beche in an examination of 
the geological formations of Switzerland and laly, and his zealous 
rd 
e Temperature and Depth of the Lake of eneva,’” the result 
of a most careful examination, was published i in the Edinburgh Philo- 
Sophical Journal. In his geological investigations of the British rocks 
the Rev. Wm. Con nybeare, now the Dean. f landaff, was, to some ex- 
tent, connected with Mr. De la Beche ; and his first communication to 
the Geological Society was the os proennee of these two geologists, — 
.. Bonouncing the discovery of a new fossil animal of the Suurian family, 
2 me lias limestones of Bristol, “shich they named, as neipe distinctive 
of its species, the Plesiosaurus. From this time the e of De la 
Beche became c closely connected with the science Por the aay. Many 
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