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otherwise than gratified and instructed. Of Mr. Bauer, indeed, it has been 

 truly said, " that nothing prevented his acquiring an extraordinary degree of 

 fame, except his remarkably unobtrusive modesty — he worked rather for the 

 credit of others, than for his own." 



Mr. Bauer continued, up to a late period, his microscopic researches and 

 drawings ; but, unwilling to risk the chance of leaving any work unfinished, 

 he at last determined to rest, and to attempt no more. Seated near his mi- 

 croscope, which long use had made almost essential to his happiness, he spent 

 his hours in re-examining what his pencil had so admirably perpetuated, and 

 reviewed, in the monuments of his labour, the history of his life. His was, 

 indeed, a life of incessant activity and usefulness. The motives which 

 stimulate common men never influenced him. Vanity, selfishness, and il- 

 liberality were wholly foreign to his disposition ; and that his innocent labours 

 had spared him from all self-reproach and remorse, his serenity, his cheerful 

 resolve to abide his time in peace, and his final departure from this world 

 under circumstances the most consolatory, full of resignation, faith, and hope, 

 and free from sufferings, save the increasing debilities of old age, sufficiently 

 prove. (Atkenceum, Dec. 26. 1840.) 



Daniel Ellis, Esq., F.B.S.E., S^c — It is with much regret that we announce 

 the death of Daniel Ellis, Esq., which happened on Sunday the 17th inst., 

 at his house in Inverleith Row, after an illness of ten days' duration. 



To the scientific world, Mr. Ellis has been long very favourably known, as 

 the author of two volumes illustrative of an enquiry into the changes induced 

 on atmospheric air by the germination of seeds, the vegetation of plants, and 

 the respiration of animals ; a work which, in tracing some most interesting 

 analogies between the animal and vegetable kingdoms, presents a rare specimen 

 of fidelity in collecting and recording the observations and discoveries of 

 others, and of ingenuity in supplying the deficiencies of their investigations, 

 and in reconciling their apparent contradictions, by original experimental re- 

 searches and accurate philosophical analysis and induction. He was the author 

 also of the articles on Vegetable Anatomy and Vegetable Physiology in the 

 Supplement to the sixth edition of the Enci/clojxsdia Bntannica, as well as of 

 other memoirs on topics connected with these subjects, all eminently distin- 

 guished by the same spirit of candour, discrimination and scientific genius. 

 [One of these articles appeared in the Gardener's Magazine, vol. xv., entitled, 

 " Description of a Plant Case, for growing Plants without fresh Supplies of 

 Water and Air."] 



Mr. Ellis was born in Gloucestershire. He was educated to the medical 

 profession in London, where he enjoyed, and profited by, the able instructions 

 of Dr. Babington in Medicine, Mr. Cline in Surgery, Dr. Haighton in Physio- 

 logy, and Mr. (afterwards Sir Astley) Cooper in Anatomy. He subsequently 

 served for some years as a medical and regimental officer in the Essex cavalry ; 

 with this regiment he proceeded to Scotland, on the occasion of some dis- 

 turbances connected with the Scotch militia, and was for some time quar- 

 tered in the West of Scotland, whence he proceeded with his regiment to 

 Ireland, where he served towards the close of the rebellion. The regiment 

 having been disbanded after its return to England, he shortly afterwards came 

 to reside in Scotland, and about 1801 attended some of the medical lectures 

 in the University of Glasgow, particularly those of Professor Jeffi-ay on 

 Anatomy and Physiology, to which he often afterwards referred with great 

 satisfaction. At Glasgow he took a medical degree, with a view to set- 

 tling as a physician at Cheltenham. Circumstances having occurred which 

 induced him to give up this intention, Mr. Ellis subsequently came to Edin- 

 burgh, in the prosecution of his medical and scientific pursuits ; and, hav- 

 ing entered the Medical Societ}', he was in 1806 chosen one of its annual 

 presidents. In that office he was associated with the late Dr. John Gordon, 

 with whom he formed the most intimate friendship. On the premature death 

 of Dr. Gordon, in 1818, his friends looked to Mr. Ellis, who was at the time 

 upon the Continent, as the person best qualified to do justice to the character 



