A2f^^TEESAIlT ADDRESS. XXXV 



Mr. W. W. Smyth, Secretary, next proceeded to read the follow- 

 ing Obituary Notices. 



Sir Arthue de Capell Broke, Bart., of Oakley Hall, in North- 

 amptonshire, although not a contributor to the literature of our 

 science, is known to the world as the author of several valuable books 

 of travels, some of which were magnificently illustrated. More parti- 

 cularly may be cited his ^ Travels in Lapland and to the North Cape,' 

 and his * Sketches of Spain and Morocco.' 



The Rev. .James B. Pisgot Dei^nis took his degree as a member 

 of Queen's CoUege, Oxford, and resided for many years at the town 

 of Bury St. Edmunds. Mr. Dennis devoted much of his time to 

 microscopical researches bearing on geology, such as examinations 

 into the structure of bone, and was the author of papers commu- 

 nicated to OMT Society and to the * Journal of Microscopical Science.' 

 He died at the early age of 45. 



General Sir C. "W. Paslet, K.C.B. This veteran officer, who died 

 19th April, 1861, at the age of 80, was actively engaged in warlike 

 operations as a Royal Engineer for many years in the Mediterranean 

 and in the Peninsula, commencing with the defence of Gaeta in 1806. 

 After his publication of a work on Chatham's military policy, which 

 excited great interest at the time, he was appointed in 1812 Di- 

 rector of the Engineer Establishment at Woolwich, which was 

 established at his instigation for the training of the young officers 

 in Practical Military Engineering ; and he devoted himself to nu- 

 merous inquiries in solving the application of science to the military 

 art, and became the author of several works on purely professional 

 subjects, as well as of one ' On Limes and Cements,' which exhibits 

 a great amount of industry in the examination of the various mineral 

 substances of this and of other coimtries, which had been or might 

 be employed for such purposes. When it was determined in 1839 

 to attempt the removal of the wreck of the * Royal George ' at Spit- 

 head, the operations were confided to Colonel Pasley, who, during the 

 years 1840-1-2, succeeded so fuUy in accomplishing the object — 

 igniting charges of gunpowder by the galvanic battery — that he 

 became the chief authority on similar subjects, and his results con- 

 tributed greatly to the success with which galvanic blasting has 

 since been introduced on a large scale into various engineering 

 operations. 



The Rev. John Stevens Henslow. Among the scientific men of 

 the present century there are few whose career has been so fraught 

 with usefulness to the public as that of the late Professor Henslow. 

 He was bom at Rochester in 1796, and at a very early age dis- 

 played a love of natural history, which was inherited from his 

 father, who practised in that town as a solicitor. In 1818 be gra- 

 duated at Cambridge as 16th wrangler, and declining to compete 

 for the higher academic position, which, with his mathematical 



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