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He became a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1819, as also 

 of the Medico-Botanical Society. He had become a Fellow of the 

 Linnean in 1793, and of the Royal Society in 1800, and was a 

 Member of no less than fourteen Foreign Societies ; and it may be 

 mentioned to his honour, that he received his first Russian di- 

 stinction, as Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Vladimir, for his 

 services during an epidemic in the south-east provinces of Russia. 

 Having been permitted to wear the insignia of his Russian orders, 

 he was knighted by King George IV. in the year 1821. 



His works were principally Medical, but he published an essay in 

 the Annals of Philosophy, " On the Climate of the Antediluvian 

 world," and in the Geological Transactions a short paper, which was 

 read on the 2nd of February, 1826, on the Taunus and other 

 mountains of Nassau. The chain of the Taunus is described as 

 consisting of talc and quartz slates on its south side, and of grau- 

 wacke strata, more or less schistose, on the north side, the talc slates 

 dipping to the north-west into the mountains, and passing out on the 

 south brow of the chain, whilst the grauwacke strata rise up from 

 the valley in a south-east direction. The grauwacke occupies much 

 of the Duchy of Nassau, and is occasionally overlaid by limestone. 

 Trap and porphyritic rocks are involved in the sedimentary rocks, 

 and appear to have been the proximate cause of much disturbance ; 

 whilst the mineral waters of the district are well known. A few 

 palaeozoic fossils from these rocks point to an age more recent than 

 , the Silurian. A brief notice also of the tertiary deposits of the valley 

 of the Marne is given in this paper. 



Those who remember Sir A. Crichton as in those memorable days 

 he appeared in the meeting-room of the Society, cannot have for- 

 gotten the frank and manly bearing which was his peculiar charac- 

 teristic, and which must have contributed, with his great talents, 

 to obtain for him so many proofs of high esteem from persons of all 

 classes. 



Sir Benjamin Fonseca Outram, C.B., M.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., 



Inspector of Naval Hospitals and of Fleets, is said to have been 

 born at Kilham, near Bridlington in Yorkshire, about 1 7 74, although 

 baptized at Gravesend, Kent. Early destined for the medical pro- 

 fession, his noviciate commenced at Gravesend. Thence he removed 

 to London ; and at Guy's and St. Thomas's Hospitals spent some 

 time, and laid claim to some improvement in the treatment of persons 

 apparently drowned. Induced by a love of adventure and change 

 of scene, he became desirous of. entering into the Medical Service 

 of the Royal Navy, but was for a time deterred by the depressed 

 state of that department. Eventually Mr. Outram resolved to try 

 it for a time; he therefore, in 1794, became assistant-surgeon (or, 

 as then termed in both services, surgeon's mate) in the ' Iris ' frigate, 

 with Captain, afterwards Sir William Hargood. Here he continued 

 nearly two years ; his scenes of service in this ship were sufficiently 

 varied and the passion for change pretty well gratified by cruising 

 in the North Sea, Baltic, English Channel, on the coast of Africa, 



