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he returned to England about a twelvemonth afterwards ; and yet it 

 was very unexpectedly that his many friends reecived the sad tidings 

 of his premature decease. 



Although the Earl or IIosse was not so thoroughly a geologist as 

 to frequent our meetings, the demise of that eminent leader in the 

 scientific world reminds us that we have lost, not only a sincere 

 friend to science at large, but a Pellow of our own Society of thirty- 

 five years standing. He was born at York, the 17th June, 1800 ; 

 but his family having lonp; been settled in Ireland, his education was 

 carried on in part at Trinity College, Dublin, and a great portion of 

 his life was devoted to the fulfilment of the duties of a wise and 

 generous-hearted resident landlord among his tenantry at Parsons- 

 town. At an early age (very soon, indeed, after taking a first-class 

 in mathematics at Oxford) he entered life as representative of the 

 King's County, and in 1845 took his seat in the House of Lords ; 

 but he is far better known for the zeal and assiduity which he be- 

 stowed on mechanics and astronomy, out of which arose the famous 

 reflecting telescope on a scale before unattempted, and a long list of 

 honours conferred on him by home and foreign scientific bodies. 

 For several years he occupied, with general approbation, the distin- 

 guished position of President of the Royal Society, and in 1862 he 

 was appointed Chancellor of the University of Dublin. The only 

 comfort left, on the loss of a man so beloved in private life, and so 

 useful as a bright example in his country, lies in the fact that he is 

 followed by a successor whose tastes are also of that intellectual kind 

 which adorn and fortify a high position. 



By the decease of Dr. Datjbent* the University of Oxford has lost 

 the one resident who, by his early social intimacies and incessant 

 labours in science, kept alive the memory and prolonged the influ- 

 ence of the age of Conybeare, Buckland, and Duncan. Freed from 

 most of the anxieties of life, animated by a perpetual desire to 

 advance knowledge, guided by a fine literary taste, and placed in a 

 position of honour and influence, few men have better employed 

 these advantages in college arrangements. University business, or 

 public proceedings in favour of literature and science. The labours 

 of fifty years have been fitly closed in the quiet of his own home, 

 under the shadow of the walls which first received him as a student, 

 in the midst of the beautiful garden which he had enriched and 

 enlarged, and surrounded by friends whose grief in losing him must 

 be the greater the longer was their knowledge of him. 



Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny, who was born Feb. 11, 1795, at 

 Stratton, in Gloucestershire, was the third son of the Eev. James 

 Daubeny. He entered Winchester School in 1808, and was elected 

 to a demyship in Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1810. In 1814 he 

 took his degree of B.A. in the Second Class ; in 1815 he won the 

 Latin Essay, and then proceeded to London and Edinburgh as a 



* For the biography of Dr. Daubeny the President was indebted to Prof. J. 

 Philhps, F.E.S., of Oxford. 



