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conception of his life ;" but this conception, while it strengthened 

 and ennobled himself, did not produce censoriousness or austerity 

 to wards others ; for nowhere was he more attractive than in the 

 social, or beloved than in the domestic circle. He seemed to me — and 

 I have especial reason to know it — to be above pettj' jealousies and 

 resentments. To younger men he was always helpful and generous, 

 and extended to many some share of that affectionate sympathy 

 which made him so beloved in his own family. The evening of 

 Dr. Carpenter's days was peaceful, and he seemed to have only just 

 begun to feel the increasing burden of years when through a short 

 and painful passage he entered into his rest, and, as we may humbly 

 hope, into a fuller knowledge of that Truth of which he had been 

 through this life so earnest a seeker. 



J). C. Davies died suddenly on Sept. 19th last, while return- 

 ing from Norway to England, on board the steamship ^ Angelo.' 

 He was born at Oswestry, and being left an orphan at an early age, 

 was entirely self-educated. Apprenticed to an ironmonger in his 

 native place, he did not cease to be a zealous student, and before 

 long gave evidence of a special bent towards geology. This, espe- 

 cially the economic side, gradually absorbed more of his attention. 

 What had been begun as a pastime became a source of income, and 

 about twelve years since, he was enabled to give up trade, and engage 

 in the business of a mining engineer, in which capacity he made 

 many journeys and, as I am informed, met with considerable suc- 

 cess. He contributed three papers to our Journal, all bearing upon 

 the geology of North Wales or its border-land ; but he also pub- 

 lished separate works on ' Slates and Slate -Quarrying,' on Metal- 

 liferous Mines,' and on ' Earthy and other Minerals.' He also 

 wrote largely in periodical literature both on scientific and on 

 miscellaneous subjects. He was moreover a lay preacher, and had 

 published a volume of sermons. His death, from heart-disease, was 

 very unexpected, for he was still in full work and had only reached 

 the age of fifty-eight. 



James FERGUssoif was born at Ayr in the year 1808, and received 

 a part of his education at the High School of Edinburgh. He 

 entered a merchant's house, and proceeding to India became a 

 partner in an important business. On retiring from this, he 

 travelled through various parts of the East, chieliy with a view of 

 studying their architecture, after which he returned to England, 

 where he spent most of the remainder of his life. It is on his 

 works on architecture that his reputation will chiefly rest. If his 

 views, as on the age of the Kubbct-es-Sakharah at Jerusalem, and on 

 dolmens and other megalithic monuments were occasionally some- 

 what paradoxical, these arc forgotten in the merits of his ' Histories 

 of Architecture,' and of his great works on the religions and archi- 

 tecture of India, to mention no other volumes or memoirs. It must 

 not, however, be forgotten that he published a paper in our Pro- 

 ceedings on " Recent Changes in the Delta of the Ganges," which has 



