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Captain Abney. H 1 F.R.S.: K (\E. London 



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 Manchester Science Lectures for the I '< 



> by Professor Roscoe, F.R.S. London and New York. 1876. (Mac- 



Rear Admiral Charles Henry Davis died on the eighteenth 

 of February, :it the :i»'c of seventy vears, having heel/ born in 

 Boston, January |.;, lso?. Admiral Davis was Superintendent of 

 the Naval Observatory at Washington at the time of Li- « 



1859, the foundation of which was directly owin 

 From 1842 to 1840 he was an Assistant in the Co 

 one result of his labors, of great value to navigation, was the dis- 

 covery of the "New South" Shoal" in the track of ve, 

 from New York to Europe; and another was the publication of 

 a "Memoir upon the Geological action of the tidal and other cur- 

 rents of the ocean, and the Law of deposit of the Hood tide," pre- 

 nade a special study along the Atlantic coast 

 - ot tidal action. He was tin- author also of several 

 le articles on astronomy and geodesy, and published in 1858 a 

 1 ' i Motus Corporum Coelestium." 



lkes died on the eighth «>!' ! Vb- 



t lie seventy-seventh year of his age. Admiral Wilkes, 



u >' " :: ' "pt: in, < mmamh d tin i m. <d N at - i . ..oh -r'n <_ Lxpuli- 



-■ vears L- ;8 to ! ■ »■_' and pub- 



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" f ''"■ '* ■ i i:n \ of .-oral islands), and a 



ie. He was a bold, daring explorer, a man 



'-•I strong will and great energy, sure to accomplish whatever he 



undertook His sailing up Port Jackson, the port of Sydney, 



v -\ ah-, an intricate narrow bay, seven miles in length, 



-if i. N< v. n'-er, 1-,, Al | 1( , u , ,,j|„,. in company 



acock, the other sloop of war of th< 



shipping of thai hi . , mspicion 



" trhl '"" - \ -teats. 



Alfred Smek, the inventor of ■■> - 



he ^'ceived the gold medal of the Society of 

 ™. works on electro-metal lu 



of the Koyal Socii 



sity at Berli; 



