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death, a very valuable and numerous collection of clocks and watches. 

 Ill the year 1830 he was elected to the Presidency of the Royal 

 Society of London, and was present at the meetings of that illustrious 

 assemblage, whenever his health, which, unfortunately, was delicate, or 

 the other demands upon his time, unavoidable from his exalted rank, 

 admitted of his so doing. He was nominated an honorary member 

 of this Academy, of course not for any special scientific merits, but 

 that we might show some consonance of feeling with the scientific men 

 of London who elected his Royal Highness to the most exalted sci- 

 entific position of the British Empire, the chair of Newton. 



Professor Wallace, of Edinburgh, was known to the mathema- 

 tical world for various memoirs, into the details of which it is not 

 necessary to enter. His works were not of a character to influence 

 the progress of general science in any material degree, although they 

 manifested powers of inquiry and analysis of a very creditable 

 amount. 



Of the ordinary members of the Academy whom we have lost 

 during the past year, the Lord Fitzgerald and VescI, the Right Hon. 

 Judge Radcliffe, Arthur Hume, Esq., the Rev. Thomas Prior, D.D., 

 and Major-General Sir Joseph O'Halloran, do not require special 

 notice. They were all men publicly known, and recognized as of 

 eminent ability in the vai'ious professional pursuits to which they had 

 devoted themselves. Success of no ordinary kind was the result of 

 their exertions, and has connected the names of some permanently 

 with history. It can hence be understood that, except by a general 

 desire to promote the objects of this Academy, by which, we trust, 

 every member is actuated, they were not able to take any part in 

 our proceedings. 



We cannot, however, pass so briefly from the name of Robert 

 Bateson, late M.P. for Derry. Separating himself from the whirl of 

 merely trivial and political pursuits, to which young men of his age 

 and station are unfortunately in this country almost exclusively de- 

 voted, he engaged in the cultivation of literature and antiquities with 

 a zeal and ability which promised to bear the best fruit. The 

 ancient monuments and history of his native country specially oc- 

 cupied his attention, but not exclusively; and whilst travelling in 

 Palestine, for purposes of literary inquiry, amongst those scenes in 



