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up the very latest discoveries in geology, and adding to his cabinet, 
with all the fervour and delight of youth, fresh accessions from the 
stores of organic remains, then newly discovered at the base of the 
Himalaya mountains. 
He has published nothing. His name however may remain as- 
sociated with the progress of science, by his liberal co-operation 
with Professor Whewell and the members of the British Association 
in the erection of a machine for registering the tides of the Avon 
upon a cliff overhanging that river, within the grounds of his resi- 
dence at Ham Green, upon the very spot (though at the time it was 
unknown to be so) from whence Captain Sturmy made his observa- 
tions which were transmitted to Sir Isaac Newton. During three 
years Mr. Bright undertook the special care and superintendence 
of this machine. The results of this register were peculiarly valuable 
in establishing the diurnal variation of the tides: "When a machine 
of much superior construction was, after the lapse of three years, 
erected at the Hotwells, the original gauge at Ham Green became 
useless, and was removed. The new gauge is under Mr. Bunt’s im- 
mediate care in operation as it was in construction, and his unre- 
mitting observations have already been rewarded by experimental 
proof of a very important general law, so recently announced, that 
it is possible I may be the first to give the intelligence to many of 
those who hear me, viz. that the variations of atmospheric pressure, 
as indicated by the barometer, exert a regular and very considerable 
influence on the height of high water in the Avon; an increase of 
atmospheric pressure, by which the mereury was raised one inch, 
producing a depression of fourteen inches’ in the height of the 
water. 
In his death our Society has to lament the loss of, I believe, the 
only father, who, during many years, has, together with two sons, 
been among the number of its most zealous and efficient members. 
To one of these sons, Dr. Richard Bright, we owe an early paper in 
our Transactions, on the Geology of his father’s neighbourhood. He 
has travelled in the less-frequented parts of Europe, and published 
records of his journeys both in Iceland* and Hungary ; the medical 
profession also acknowledge their obligation to him for several im- 
portant works. 
In the Rev. Dr. Cooke, of Tortworth Rectory, in Gloucestershire, 
we have lost a zealous member, whose early life was passed, before 
Geology was heard of, in academic pursuits as a Fellow and Tutor 
of Oriel College, Oxford, and whose taste for literature and the 
fe arts, and acute perception of the beauty of natural objects 
had prepared his mind to appreciate the value of those ad- 
ditions to natural knowledge, which the discoveries of geology 
caused to burst upon him, after he had passed the meridian of life. 
He was, in his early days, a frequent visitor of North and South 
Wales, with a view to the enjoyment of natural scenery; and from 
* He accompanied Sir George M‘Kenzie, and contributed to his work on 
Iceland. 
