134 LIFE OF ALBANY HANCOCK, BY DR. EMBLETOtf. 



towards the oppressed, and instances are not wanting in which 

 his warm sympathy for his friends in misfortune or domestic 

 affliction acted as halm to the wounded heart. There was bene- 

 volence in his smile and in his tear, and his conduct was marked 

 throughout by purity and uprightness. Children he loved, 

 though he was never married, and was beloved by them. He 

 could partake of their simple joys and sorrows, and was always 

 ready to impart information and teach them to observe with 

 attention the objects around them. 



His time was much occupied with his laborious researches and 

 his study of authors on his favourite subjects, nevertheless he 

 kept himself abreast of the current knowledge of the day, not 

 only in Natural History, but in general Anatomy and Physiology, 

 in Archaeology, general Literature, and Politics, in all of which, 

 and in the Pine Arts, he took especial pleasure. 



The modesty and diffidence of his sensitive nature prevented 

 him from taking part in discussions at public meetings, even on 

 scientific subjects; and though he was solicited in 1850 to give 

 a course of lectures on Zoology or Comparative Anatomy, in the 

 Newcastle College of Medicine, he modestly declined to under- 

 take the task, as one unfitted to his frame of mind. 



A list of his works, seventy -four in number, is appended, and 

 on these his after fame securely rests. 



The portrait at the head of this memoir, an excellent likeness, 

 is from a photograph by E. B. Bowman, Esq., and nine hundred 

 copies of it have been handsomely presented to the Transactions 

 of the Club by Joseph "W. Swan, Esq. 



It is hoped that so much of the work on the Tunicata as 

 Messrs. Alder and Hancock had finished may be shortly got 

 ready for publication. Doubtless it will be found in no way 

 inferior to the best of their other works. 



