Necrology. — Dr. WoUaston. 159 



" The fine climate of Italy suited his health ; on which account, 

 in the course of 1828, he went to Rome to obtain relief from his 

 bodily afflictions. About the close of the last winter, his friends ap- 

 prehended his life to be in danger. On receiving this intelligence, 

 Lady Davy immediately left London for Rome, and travelled with 

 so much haste, as to accomplish the journey in the short period of 

 twelve days and a half. She found him better, and he determined, 

 accompanied by Lady Davy and his brother, John Davy, to come to 

 Geneva, where he had made a long sojourn in 1814, and where he 

 had numerous friends. He bore the journey well ; but a few hours 

 after his arrival in this city, he suddenly sunk under an attack of ap- 

 poplexy in the night of tlie 28th of May, aged fifty and a half years. 

 The learned of all countries will appreciate the immense loss 

 which they have just sustained. The friends of science in Ge- 

 neva, were the first to manifest that expression of regret which will 

 be rapidly extended throughout the learned of Europe. The Acad- 

 emy of our city united with Dr. Davy, in rendering the last duties 

 to the former president of the Royal Society, and claimed the priv- 

 ilege of occupying the place of absent parents. The government,, 

 the clergy, the society of Arts and of Medicine, the English who 

 were incidentally in Geneva, the students of the Academy, the artists,, 

 and a crowd of citizens of the Canton attended the funeral ; they 

 were anxious to render a final homage to an illustrious philosopher,, 

 and to prove that he who, like Davy, has extended the bounds of 

 human knowledge, and has employed his talents in the service of hu- 

 manity, is not a stranger in any country." 



DR. WOLLASTON. 



From the Minute.s of the Astronomical Society, at the anniversary meeting, 

 February 13, 1829. 



Dr. Wollaston was born August 6, 1766, at East Dereham ; was 

 graduated at Cambridge, and became a fellow of Caius College^ 

 which he left in 1789; from that period to 1800 he spent in London, 

 in medical studies and practice, which, not coinciding with his taste, 

 he abandoned, on receiving an accession of fortune, and thenceforward 

 became a public scientific character. He was many years V. P. R. S. 

 and P. for a short time in 1820. He was a zealous and active com- 

 missioner of longitude, a member of the Astron. Soc. and his last 

 observations were made on the relative brightness of the sun and 

 fixed stars. He died on the 22d of December, 1828. 



