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this paper Professor Pusey remarked in a note appended to it : 

 " This paper appears to me one of the most valuable contribu- 

 tions yet made by science to practical agriculture." 



The pages of the Bath and West of England Agricultural 

 Journal contain several papers from his pen, amongst them, is one 

 '' On the Temperature of the Sea and its Influence on the Climate 

 and the Agriculture of the British Islands," and another on 

 the "Development of the Agricultural Resources of Cornwall." 



In his later years Mr. Whitley turned his attention to the 

 Antiquity of Man and the Palgeolithic Age, and wrote several 

 papers on this subject, in which he criticised modern views with 

 much independence of thought and vigour of language. 



He died suddenly at his residence, Penarth, Truro, on his 

 eighty-first birthday, March 10th, 1891. 



By the unexpected and lamented death of Mr. Henry 

 Martyn Jefpery, M.A., F.E.S., abstract mathematical science 

 has lost one of its ablest exponents, whose long devotion to the 

 special study of the higher branches of pure mathematics has 

 been fully appreciated and honoured by his fellow mathema- 

 ticians. The loss to local science will, I am convinced, be 

 specially felt by the members of the Royal Institution of 

 Cornwall, who will naturally regret the death of an esteemed 

 Yice-President, whose regular attendance at our annual meetings 

 could generally be relied upon ; for in all Mr. Jeffery's intimate 

 relations with the affairs of the Institution, he was ever ready to 

 devote his time, attention, and abilities to its service. He will 

 be sadly missed by us all, especially by those who were attached 

 to him by private friendship. 



Mr. Jeffery was the only son of Mr. John Jeffery, of 

 Gwennap. He was born on January 5th, 1826, at the house of 

 his grandfather, the Rev. W. Curgenven, rector of Lamorran, 

 who married the sister of the distinguished mathematician, 

 orientalist, and missionary, the Rev Henry Martyn, B.D., of 

 Truro, the senior wrangler at Cambridge, in 1801. He was also 

 related to the family of the Rev. Malachy Hitchins, Vicar of 

 St. Hilary, who for more than forty years was the able coadjutor 

 with Dr. Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal, in the compilation 



