74 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
OBITUARY. 
Cuartrs Bassacsr, the author of the “ninth” Bridgewater — 
Treatise, inventor of the calculating machine, and author of vatr — 
ous memoirs on mathematical and physical subjects, died on the — 
20th of October last. ; 
There is no fear that the worth of the late Charles Babbage — 
among the few greatest men who can create new methods or re 
form whole branches of knowledge. Unfortunately the works of 
a 
publications are short papers, often only a few pages in length, — 
published in the mel eet of learned salekiok Those to which 
we can apply the name of books, such as “The Ninth Bridge — 
water Treatise,” “The Reflections on the Decline of Science,” 
“The Account of the Exposition of 1851,” are generally incom — 
plete sketches, on which but little care could have been expended. — 
e have, in fact, mere samples of what he could do. He was — 
essentially one who began and did not complete. He sowed ideas, — 
the fruit of which has been reaped by men less able but of more — 
It was not time that was wanting to him. Born as long 4g as 
the 26th of December, 1792, he has enjoyed a working life of nearly 
tellectual powers see 
