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roboration of the opinion of his illustrious friend Professor Playfair, 

 and his ingenious speculations on the origin of pointed architecture 

 must be equally well known to the mediaeval antiquary. Sir James 

 was for some years President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and 

 it may well be supposed that our late fellow inherited his father's 

 love for science in general, and more especially for those sciences 

 with \\'hich the naval profession has so much to do. He was born 

 on the last day of the year 1788, and entered on his professional 

 career in the month of June 1802. He commanded the Lyra at the 

 time when Lord Amherst was sent on a mission to the court of 

 Pekin, and published an interesting account of his visit to Loo-Choo. 

 He was author of observations on a comet at the time when he was 

 on the South American station, and of a paper on the geology of 

 the Cape of Good Hope at an early period of his life. His favourite 

 science was astronomy ; but geology could not be indifferent to the 

 son of Sir J'ames Hall. He was always most anxious to serve science 

 by receiving the instructions of distinguished philosophers, and re- 

 cording for their use observations made by him in the distant parts 

 of the world which he had the opportunity of visiting. He was an 

 able observer and practical astronomer, and had occasion to turn 

 these qualities to excellent account as a naval officer. He was 

 author of many Avorks of great interest, chiefly connected with what 

 he had himself seen in different parts of the globe. He married 

 Miss Hunter on the 1st of March 1825, and left a family at his 

 death. 



Admiral Sir Robert Barlow was born in the year 1758, 

 and attained the rank of captain in the Royal Navy in June 1793. 

 His naval career was distinguished by eminent services ; and on the 

 24th of January 1823, he was promoted to the rank of rear ad- 

 miral on the retired list, by reason of his holding the situation of 

 Commissioner of the Navy, to which he had been appointed in the 

 year 1808. He had the honour of being made a Knight Commander 

 of the Bath on the first establishment of that order in its present 

 shape, and received a Grand Cross by seniority the year before his 

 death. He expired on the 11th of May 1843, at the advanced age 

 of 85. By an accidental omission, his name was not mentioned in 

 the obituary of last year. 



Sir Gore Ouseley, G.C.H., was born in 1770, and was second 

 son of Ralph Ouseley, Esq., by his first wife, the daughter of Henry 

 Holland, Esq., of Limerick. He went to India in early life, and there 

 displayed that aptitude for the acquirement of Eastern languages to 

 which he was mainly indebted for his subsequent political advance- 

 ment. After his return, he married, in 1806, Miss Whitelock, by 

 whom he left the son who has succeeded him in his hereditary 

 honours. His useful services as a Persian linguist at the time 

 when a Persian envoy had visited our shores, procured for him the 

 post of ambassador at the court of Persia in 1810. He afterwards 

 proceeded to St. Petersburg. He was created a privy councillor 



