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him one of the Eoyal Medals for his paper " On the Tides ;" in 

 1848 the Astronomical Society gave him a testimonial for his 

 "Researches on the Theory of Perturbation;" and in 1836 he 

 delivered the Bakerian Lecture " On the Tides at the Port of 

 London." Besides these communications, Sir John W. Lubbock 

 contributed many papers on similar subjects in the ' Philosophical 

 Transactions,' the ' Memoirs of the Eoyal Astronomical Society,' 

 the ' Cambridge Philosophical Society,' and the ' E-eports of the 

 British Association.' 



He also published several important works on astronomical 

 and mathematical subjects between 1830 and 1840, in which year, 

 on the death of his father, he succeeded to the Baronetcy, and de- 

 voted his whole attention, or nearly so, to his business as a Banker 

 in the City of London. One of his last, if not his last, published 

 contributions to science was, however, produced in 1848, when 

 he read a paper to the G-eological Society " On Change of Climate, 

 resulting from a change in the Earth's Axis of Eotation"^ — a paper 

 which, as observed by the late President of the Geological Society, 

 " derives additional interest from the discussions which have been 

 recently carried on." 



He became a Eellow of this Society on the 4th of November, 

 1828, but never contributed anything to our publications. 



TJiomas White Mann, JEsq^., M.B.C.S. ^ L.A.S., was an eminent 

 and much esteemed medical practitioner, residing at Upper Hol- 

 loway, where he died, after a very short illness, on the 30th of 

 May, 1865, in his fifty-fourth year. 



Dr. Jean Francois Camille Montague, Member oftlie Institute of 

 France and of numerous other learned Societies, died on the 9th 

 of January, 1866. The great distinction which he long since at- 

 tained in all branches of Cryptogamic Botany has rendered his 

 name familiar to science ; but many persons are probably unac- 

 quainted with the varied scenes -of his prolonged career, a short 

 account of which we are enabled to give from M. Hoefer's " Bio- 

 graphie Grenerale:" — "He was born on the 15th of Eebruary, 

 1784, at Yaudoy (Seine et Marne). He was the son of a surgeon, 

 who died while he was yet an infant, under such circumstances 

 that, from want of sufficient means, he was almost self-educated. 

 At the age of fourteen he went into the navy, into which he en- 

 tered at Toulon as a master's mate, and soon took part in the 

 expedition to Egypt, where he was employed in the civil depart- 

 ment, and ultimately as secretary to the military controller of the 

 navy. In 1802 he returned to Erance with the army which had 



