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* Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers,' a collection of strikhig and 

 origmal observations on moral and metaphysical subjects. 



He left college to enter on pastoral duties as rector of Hurst- 

 monceaux in Sussex, and was afterwards made Archdeacon of Lewes. 

 Occasionally he visited the University as one of the Select Preachers, 

 in which capacity he attracted large audiences by the fervour of his 

 manner and the copiousness of his language. His tastes had pro- 

 bably a leaning to German metaphysics, rather than to any branch 

 of physical science, but without doubt he was a good scholar, a bold 

 thinker, and an eloquent preacher, whilst his personal character was 

 so estimable that those even who objected to his theological opinions 

 were disarmed of all angry feelings, and a large circle of friends was 

 drawn round and deeply attached to him. 



Dr. Ure was an honorary member of the Society, and better 

 known for his great abilities both as a speculative and practical 

 chemist than as a geologist. In his own catalogue of his principal 

 writings, published between September 1817 and July 1830, he enu- 

 merates no less than forty distinct treatises or essays, in addition 

 to his great Chemical Dictionary, which had then gone through four 

 large editions, and his New System of Geology, and he observed 

 respecting them, " that almost every department of chemical science 

 had in succession been made the subject of a distinct investigation." 

 After that period, in 1834, a paper on the analysis of the Moira 

 Brine Spring, with researches on the extraction of bromine, was 

 published in the Philosophical Transactions ; in 1835 the Philosophy 

 of Manufactures ; in 1836, the Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain 

 compared with that of other countries, and in 1837, his very detailed 

 work on the * Arts and Manufactures,' since greatly enlarged in the 

 edition of 1853 ; and in addition to these distinct waitings, several 

 chemical essays in *The Penny Cyclopaedia,' and in the scientific 

 journals, as also many pamphlets of a very varied character, some 

 being medical, and others politico-scientific. Of such a number of 

 writings, many possessed originality and great merit ; and in respect 

 to his New System of Geology, his own words explain sufficiently its 

 bearing, as he has observed that in this work ''he endeavoured to 

 show how chemical physics may be made to explain some of the 

 most mysterious phsenomena connected with the structure of the 

 earth and its organic remains." At that time chemistry had hardly 

 been recognized as one of the elements in geological research, but 

 now the labours of such men as Bunsen and Delesse have proved 

 that without its aid we cannot expect to obtain a perfect knowledge 

 of all the phsenomena which a study of the earth's history through 

 past ages brings before us. He was a member of the Astronomical 

 Society, and for many years Professor of Chemistry in the Ander- 

 sonian University. 



Colonel Lloyd. — The name of the late Colonel Lloyd not 

 having been noticed in the preceding obituary, it is but just to devote 

 a few words to his memory as a Fellow of our Society. 



