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Edinbiirgli, belonging to the Carboniferous group of Rocks," a paper 

 which you will recollect attracted no slight attention at the time. 

 He would appear during the latter part of his life to have principally 

 devoted his attention to archaeology, respecting which he has left 

 several important works. After his return from the continent he 

 made a tour through Scotland, more especially examining the sculp- 

 tured stones and Runic inscriptions of Forfarshire, Ross-shire, and 

 other places, Mrs. Hibbert executing elaborate and beautiful draw- 

 ings of them, which it was his intention to have published. In 1837, 

 Dr. Hibbert took the additional name of Ware, by royal license, as 

 the representative of the family of Mr. James Ware, the historian of 

 Ireland. After long suffering from bronchitis, Dr. Hibbert Ware 

 expired on the 30th of last December, in his 67th year, at Hale 

 Barns, near Altringham, Cheshire. 



Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Baronet, was born in 1784, and was 

 the son of Sir Andrew Lauder, of Fountain Hall, Edinburghshire. 

 In early life he entered the army, but upon his marriage retired to 

 Relugas, in Morayshire, where he passed many years. His active 

 mind did not permit him to remain idle, and we find him early en- 

 gaged in scientific pursuits. In the third volume of the Wernerian 

 Transactions he gave an account of the transport, by means of ice, 

 of a large boulder on the shore of the Moray Frith. Having made 

 a minute examination of the celebrated Parallel Roads of Glenroy, 

 he forwarded a memoir containing the results of this investigation to 

 the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the paper was inserted in the 

 9th volume of their Transactions. In 1829 he drew up an account 

 of a great flood in IMorayshire, full of most valuable information re- 

 specting that remarkable inundation. About 1830 Sir Thomas 

 quitted his retirement in the country and became resident in Edin- 

 burgh. Some years subsequently he became Secretary to the Board 

 of Trustees of Fisheries and Manufactures in Scotland. With his 

 characteristic desire to promote all that was valuable in art as well 

 as science, he exerted himself in instituting a School of Design at 

 Edinburgh. Success attended his labours, and he had the satisfac- 

 tion of seeing that establishment in a high state of efficiency before 

 his death. Sir Thomas Dick Lauder was much esteemed in private 

 life, and ever ready to encourage rising merit, wherever found. He 

 was the author of several works in imaginative literature which have 

 been extensively read, and some translated into French and German. 

 He died in May 1848, in his 64th year. 



Edmund Tyrell Artis was born at Sweflin, near Saxmundham, 

 Suffolk, in 1789, and was the eldest son of parents in easy circum- 

 stances. In very early life he exhibited that talent for art which 

 enabled him even to paint portraits and model busts in clay, and was 

 of so much value to him afterwards, more especially in his antiqua- 

 rian researches. He was much attached to the study of geology, and 

 about 1 8 1 6 or 1817, and for many years afterwards, spent much of 

 his time in collecting fossil plants from the Yorkshire and Derbyshire 



