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read with great pleasure Smiles' book on Edwards tbe. Naturalist ; 

 it just suited liim. The wonderful perseverance and self-denial 

 of that man were just exactly what he liked and believed in ; 

 being of opinion that with persistent application, a man could 

 attain to be master of any branch of art and study ; quite as 

 much so as a man with natural talent or aptitude for the same." 



Mr Eichardson died at Alnwick, April 18th, 1879, in his 80th 

 year ; leaving with his relatives at the close, the consolatory re- 

 flection, ''that he is now enjoying that glorious hereafter for 

 which he lived." 



The Alnwick Scientific and Mechanical Institution at their 

 general meeting, Dec. 2, 1879, passed the following resolution : 



" By the death of Mr William Eichardson we have lost an old 

 and valued member. He was one of the last of that small band 

 of pioneers who strove so nobly in the early years of this Society 

 to give life, energy, and stability to its undertakings. As a 

 student, and afterwards as a teacher, he attended some of the 

 earliest classes taught in connection with this Institution ; and 

 the advantages that he derived from such agencies were so great 

 that he was ever afterwards anxious that others should partici- 

 pate in the same privileges. For years he served on the Com- 

 mittee, and in that capacity he was acting at the time of his 

 death. His wise counsel and conciliatory manner, combined 

 with great business experience, always commanded among those 

 with whom he acted, the utmost respect. As Mr Eichardson ad- 

 vanced in years, it must have been a source of no ordinary grati- 

 fication to him, to see the labours of this Society attended with 

 such beneficial results." 



JAMES MAIDMENT, ESQ., ADVOCATE. 



While the Club in its original constitution embraced both the 

 studies of Natural Science and Antiquities, much more promi- 

 nence has been allotted in its obituary notices to those of its dis- 

 tinguished members who were Naturalists, than to those who 

 were equally profound Antiquarians. As an instance of such 

 partiality, we have passed by Sir James Simpson, as also some 

 others ; but fortunately a studious life is often a long one, and 

 we have not many such deprivations to record. One eminent 

 man we have recently lost, one known to very few among us, 

 who probably never attended a Club meeting, never with buoyant 



