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was taken up senseless^ having received a concussion of the brain, 

 unaccompanied hoAvever by any fracture. Por a time hopes were enter- 

 tained of his recovery, but they proved delusive. The fatal termination 

 took place March 6, 1866 ; and on the 10th his remains were deposited, 

 with every possible honour, and with an immense attendance on the 

 part of the University, in the Chapel of Trinity College, at the feet of 

 the statues of JSTewton and Bacon (the latter his own gift to the college)c 

 He left no family, and as he had throughout life identified himself 

 with the University and the College in which he had won fame and 

 acquired wealth, so, at his death, he devoted the bulk of the latter to 

 increasing their efficiency. The particular light in which he regarded 

 systematic morality had led him to a careful study of the principles of 

 jurisprudence and of the law of nations, during the course of which he 

 had been led to publish a translation of the great work of Grrotius, 

 ' De J ure Belli et Pacis and justly considering that international law 

 as a branch of the higher education was far too much neglected in this 

 country, he provided by his will for the liberal endowment of a pro- 

 fessorship and studentships of that science in the University ; while, 

 for the future enlargement of his college, he left a large and valuable 

 area of adjacent ground, purchased for the purpose during his lifetime, 

 together with ample funds for building on the site. 



To the worth and nobleness of his personal character it is scarcely 

 possible to do justice within the brief compass of a notice like the pre- 

 sent. Those who would appreciate it fitly will find it admirably deli- 

 neated, and with a truth and fidelity which leave nothing to desire, in 

 the biographical notice from which one passage has been already quoted 

 above*. Of his works other than scientific, a brief mention will suf- 

 fice. His ' Architectural Notes on the German Churches,' and ' Notes 

 written during an Architectural Tour in Picardy and Normandy,' have 

 been pronounced standard works on ecclesiastical architecture. The 

 enumeration of the long list of churches visited, and noted by him 

 according to a regular and systematic plan of annotation, in the course 

 of a summer excursion, in the former of these works, will serve to give 

 some idea of the surprising activity and energy with which he threw 

 himself into everything he undertook. In 1847 he edited a collection 

 of English hexameters and elegiacs by various authors, himself contri- 

 buting a translation from the G-erman of Goethe's Herman and Doro- 

 thea. Of the admission of these metres into our English verse he was 

 always a strenuous advocate, justly apprehending their many and power- 

 ful claims to such reception, and turning a deaf ear to the prejudice 

 which vfould refuse them their merited place in our literature. He 

 translated also Auerbach's ' Professor's Wife.' 



The essay on the * Plurality of "Worlds ' (attributed to him, though 



William Whewell. In Memoriam. By Gr. W. Clark, M.A., PubHc Orator in 

 the University of Cambridge. MacMillan's Magazine, No. 78. 



