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of jaundice. He died in harness, being fully engaged with his 

 official duties as long as he was able to go about. He was a 

 member of an old Warwick family, being the eldest son of the late 

 Mr. Joseph Baly. His only brother, Mr. Price Richard Baly, was 

 a pupil of Brunei, the engineer, and was extensively engaged in 

 the construction of railways in Brussels, Russia, and the Caspian, 

 until he retired about fifteen years ago. Mr. J. S. Baly, born at 

 Warwick in 1816, and educated at the Grammar School, under 

 the Rev. George Innes, was a student of St. George's Hospital, 

 Hyde Park (at that time the leading hospital) ; and when he 

 passed his examination there, he received ' the compliments of 

 the court.' He was also, during his earlier years, a pupil at the 

 Shrewsbury infirmary, under Dr. Burd. After gaining his 

 diploma, he pursued his studies in Paris. He settled down for 

 a time in Leamington, and held the appointment of medical 

 officer of the Union for that district. But his scientific tastes 

 attracted him to London, where he secured a very large practice, 

 and formed the friendship of many of the scientific men of the 

 day, including several of the chiefs at the British Museum. He 

 came to be acknowledged as a leading authority on Coleoptera 

 (the beetle family) ; and a portion of his unique collection, which 

 was of world-wide reputation, was purchased for the British 

 Museum with a large sum of money. He was Fellow of the 

 Linnean and of the Entomological Societies, and a member of 

 all the foreign Entomological Societies, by whom he was con- 

 stantly applied to for his wide experience in his favourite study. 

 The books he has published on the Coleoptera generally, and 

 especially the family of Phytophaga, to which he gave his chief 

 study, are valuable as the accepted authority in this particular 

 branch. He was hard at work on his favourite pursuit to the 

 time of his death, naming and describing collections sent from 

 foreign Entomological Societies, and preparing a paper, which he 

 has not been permitted to finish. His health first broke down 

 from over-work in London, and he was compelled to give up a 

 large and lucrative practice. He came back to his native town 

 twenty-two years ago, and held the appointments of medical 

 officer of heath for Leamington, and also medical officer for the 

 Union Infirmary. These offices gave him ample time for the 

 indulgence of his scientific tastes, and he was one of the hon. 

 curators of the Warwick Museum. He was a man of very 

 extensive research, and his great natural ability would have 

 entitled him to have claimed a far higher position in the medical 

 world than that which he occupied. But his retiring and studious 

 disposition prevented him from reaping the full reward of his 

 merits. Immersed in his favourite pursuits, which he followed 

 with remarkable patience and devotion, he realised the modest 

 ambition of his life, with a full knowledge that his worth was 

 acknowledged by men of the highest scientific eminence, who 



