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OBITUARY. 
Sir Epwarp Sazrine, K.C.B., died on the 25th of June, 1m his 
95th | ear, General Sabine’s fn me is known in scien nee mo pot 
with If and Gautier, the connection between unusual magnetic 
Bac abascen and large deeli nation, and the year or time of “maxi- 
mum sun spots. His election to the Royal Society took place in 
1818, when in his 30th year. In 1821, he received from it the 
Copley medal ; in 1849, the Royal medal, In 1861 he was elected 
President of the Royal Society, which position he held for ten 
years. In 1869 he was made K.C.B. The Colonial Observa- 
tories owed their oxjtenen. to the efforts of General Sabine, a 
were for many years opr his control—From a Mogragihdoal 
notice in ere of July 5t 
WwW M Sporriswoopk, "President of the Royal Society, em- 
ine mathematician and physicist, and a scholar also in 
jricntal on other languages, died on the 27th of June, He was 
buried in Westminster Abbey. Mr. Spottiswoode was born in 
don, Jan. 11, 1825, but was of Scottish fam mily. His earliest 
mathematica work, ‘“* Meditationes nana tena appeared when 
he enty-two years old. After 1870 his attention was 
« divided spa physics and agree gen A complete list of 
his papers i is contained in Nature of April 26. 
