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countrymen. He never published any book of science, though he 

 took much interest in its advancement, and he was on his way to 

 Glasgow to attend the Meeting of the British Association, when he 

 was attacked by cholera, from the effects of which he never fully 

 recovered. He died on the 16th of February, 1856, at the age of 

 82. His name is now familiar to all from the distinguished services 

 in India of his relative Sir James Outram. 



Nathaniel John Larkin was born in London, 5th December, 

 1781. At the age of nineteen he went to the Orkney Islands, to 

 establish a straw-plat manufactory, which he superintended for 

 some years. He subsequently returned to London, and became 

 noted for his models of crystals, illustrating Hauy's Traite de 

 Mineraloffie, and likewise the views of Dr. Wollaston, Professors 

 Mohs and Jameson, and other writers of scientific eminence. He 

 constructed a cube of spherical molecules, uniform with the tetra- 

 hedron and octahedron of Dr. Wollaston, from whom he received 

 much friendly encouragement and assistance. He also arranged a 

 very complete and comprehensive set of Geometrical Solids, and 

 published three books in explanation of them, the most important 

 of which was his 'Introduction to Solid Geometry, and to the 

 Study of Crystallography ;' a work which appeared in the year 

 1820. About this time he was elected a Fellow of the Geological 

 Society, to the President (G. B. Greenough, Esq.) and other mem- 

 bers of which he dedicated his book. He was afterwards presented 

 by them with a Life-Fellowship of the Society, and was once a can- 

 didate for the post of Assistant-Secretary. He was the first Secre- 

 tary of the Society of Civil Engineers, then (1825) meeting in Buck- 

 ingham Street, Adelphi. He died on the 21st of October, 1855, 

 being in the 74th year of his age. 



Archdeacon Hare was a member of Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge, and, though not a practical geologist, merits on our part a 

 brief notice, as he was a friend of Sedgwick, and joined our Society 

 under the influence of that enthusiasm for the truths of nature 

 which was the ordinary result of attending the lectures of our di- 

 stinguished member at a time when he, like Dr. Buckland at Oxford, 

 was beginning to unfold the beauties and expound the principles 

 of Geology at Cambridge. He graduated in 1816, was a fellow and 

 tutor of his college, and attained a high character as a classical 

 scholar and literary man. He was associated with the present 

 Bishop of St. David's in several literary works, and especially in the 

 difiicult one of translating Niebuhr's History of Rome. When it is 

 remembered that the German class of historians, then little known in 

 England, is characterized by the unhesitating sacrifice of all tradi- 

 tionary fables, however poetical in themselves, and however en- 

 deared by the associations of early life, at the shrine of truth, we 

 may hail them as our fellow-labourers, for in no science is the 

 student more subject to have his favourite fancies rudely shaken than 

 in Geology. Archdeacon Hare was also one of the Authors of 



