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on any particular subject. After be had completed this work, he 

 projected a new translation of Plinj-'s " Natural History," to be ac- 

 companied with notes ; in 1828 he printed, for private distribution, 

 a specimen of the work, consisting of the first and thirty-third 

 books ; and he afterwards devoted a considerable portion of his 

 time to the prosecution of this undertaking, in which he had made 

 some progress at the time of his death. For the last two or 

 three years his health had been declining, but the immediate cause 

 of his death was an attack of cholera, which proved fatal on the 6th 

 of August in the present year. 



Respected and beloved by a wide circle of friends and relatives, 

 his memory will long be cherished with affection by those who sur- 

 vive, and with gratitude by the votaries of those sciences which his 

 labours have promoted and enriched. 



JoHjrCoNSTANTiNE Carpue, who died in the beginning of the 

 present year, at the advanced age of eighty-two, was, during a long 

 period of his life, a distinguished teacher of Anatomy and Surgery. 

 His family had originally been Spanish, and attached to the Roman 

 Catholic Church. He himself was intended for the priesthood, and 

 with that vicAV received the elements of his education at the Jesuits' 

 College at Douay. A youthful eagerness to see the world prompted 

 him, at the age of eighteen, to traverse the continent on foot, in 

 various directions, remaining much in France, where he had ample 

 opportunities of observing the state of society both before and after 

 the Revolution, and of being an eye-witness of many of the memo- 

 rable scenes that occurred in Paris during the most critical epochs 

 of that eventful period. To the early impressions thus received, may 

 probably be traced the peculiar bent of his mind, which led him, in 

 after life, to engage largely in the political discussions of his own 

 country ; and also his keen relish for travel, and especially for pe- 

 destrian expeditions, in which, on his return to England, he often 

 indulged ; at times rambling over Wales, or the Highlands of 

 Scotland ; and in later years, accomplishing, with his family, exten- 

 sive tours through various parts of Europe. 



He was long undecided in his plans of life. After he had re- 

 nounced the priesthood, he looked forward to succeed in the business 

 of a bookseller, his uncle, Mr. Lewis, who carried on that trade in 

 Great Russell Street, Covent Garden. He subsequently directed his 

 views to the law,and was j}reparing to embark in this new career, when 

 he was suddenly smitten v»'ith admiration for Shakespear, and resolved 

 to devote himself to the stage. But his passion for acting having 

 cooled, he finally determined to adopt the profession of Surgery ; 

 and for that purpose commenced his medical studies at St. George's 

 Hospital, in which institution he served for some time as House- 

 Surgeon. He afterwards received the appointment of Staff-Surgeon 

 to the York Hospital at Chelsea, where he remained twelve years ; 

 at the end of which period he retired from this military duty, being 

 apprehensive of being ordered on foreign service ; and was imme- 

 diately elected, in conjunction with Mr. Pearson, Surgeon to the 



