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translation was widely and sometimes loosely handled, he endea- 

 voured to work out the solution of the problem of the distribution 

 of the drift with Scandinavian boulders over the IS'orth German area. 

 And although few mav now be inclined to attach much importance 

 to the investigation as really accounting for the facts, the paper sup- 

 plies a good example of the application of weight and measure to a 

 problem before rather indefinite, and of the clearness of head and 

 logical method of the late jtlaster of Trinity. 



Dr. JoHX Lee, whose frequent appearance at the meetings of the 

 Geological and many other scientific and hteraiy societies will be re- 

 membered by some of our Pellows, died in Pebruary last, at his resi- 

 dence, Hartwell House near Aylesbury, at the advanced age of 

 eighty-three. 



As John Fiott, he was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, 

 and became, in 1806, fifth wi^angler, afterwards, in 1816, taking the 

 further degree of LL.D. The name of Lee was assumed, by royal 

 license in 1815, for family reasons, and in 1827 he succeeded to the 

 considerable properties of Sir George Lee, Bart., in Bedfordshire 

 and Buckinghamshire. Dr. Lee had, as Travelling Bachelor from 

 the University of Cambridge, commenced, on a journey to the Levant, 

 the acquisition of various objects of natural history and archaeology ; 

 and his taste for collecting had fuller scope when he became the 

 owner of Hartwell. In that fine old but somewhat neglected man- 

 sion he was ever hospitably ready to show the motley contents of 

 his museum, and, without -doors, to do the honours of his astro- 

 nomical observatoiy and of the brick-pits and stone -quarries in his 

 neighbourhood. 



Geoege Eexxie, F.E.S., civil engineer, was bom at Chiistchurch 

 in Surrey in 1791, and died on the 30th of ^larch (Good Friday), 

 1866. He was the eldest son of John Eennie (civil engineer), and 

 after entering the same profession in 1811 assisted his father in 

 designing most of the great engineering works constructed under his 

 supervision, such as "^Vaterloo and Southwark bridges, the improve- 

 ments of Plymouth, Portsmouth, and Chatham dockyards, Ply- 

 mouth, Kingston, and Holyhead breakwaters, Lincolnshire drain- 

 age works, &c. &c. 



In 1818 he was appointed inspector of machinery and clerk of 

 the irons at the Eoyal Mint, then recently erected on Tower Hill. 

 The knowledge here acquired enabled him afterwards to design and 

 construct the more perfect machinery for the Calcutta and Bombay 

 Mints. 



In 1821, John Eennie, his father, died, and left George and 

 his brother John to complete the numerous works he had in 

 hand before his death. The government dockyard at Sheer- 

 ness, designed, but barely commenced, by his father, is due to 

 the skill of George Eennie and his brother. The design was 

 approved of in 1821, at an estimated cost of two and a half 

 millions. This was by far the most complete and systematic dock- 



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