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the population, and on the subject of the Poor Laws, and was author 

 of many other works. 



The University of Oxford conferred on him, in the year 1835, the 

 degree of Doctor of Civil Law ; and he was elected Honorary Mem- 

 ber of many learned Societies on the continent. 



Mr. Carlisle was remarkable for the zeal that he displayed in 

 whatever he undertook to perform, whether for the public service or 

 in behalf of his friends ; and his persevering industry and unwearied 

 activity were commensurate to his zeal. Pure and universal bene- 

 volence was the distinguishing feature of his private character, and 

 in his social capacity he died as he had lived, without reproach. He 

 closed his active literary life in the month of August last. 



William Dealtry, D.D., Archdeacon of Surrey, Canon of Win- 

 chester, Rector of Clapham, and some time Fellow of Trinity College, 

 Cambridge, died on the 15th of October 1847. 



He was born in Yorkshire in the year 1775 ; a younger son of an 

 ancient and respectable, but in later days not opulent family, the 

 fragments of whose landed possessions were vested in him on the 

 death of his father. He was sent young to Cambridge, and acquired 

 such distinction at Catherine Hall, that the late venerable head of 

 that Society, the Rev. Dr. Proctor, told him that he could not 

 feel justified in desiring to detain him there while there was an 

 opening for his admission to Trinity College. To that great esta- 

 blishment he accordingly transferred himself; became one of its 

 Fellows in 1798, and continued so till his marriage in 1814. In 

 1796, he was Second Wrangler, and Second Smith's Prizeman. In 

 1802, he was Moderator in the examinations of the University. At 

 the foundation of the East India College in Hertfordshire, he was 

 appointed Professor of Mathematics there. In 1810, he published 

 his work on Fluxions, which more immediately connects him with 

 the interests and reputation of the Royal Society. In that work he 

 began with the simplest instance of the application of fluxional prin- 

 ciples, and then proceeded, as he stated, to the more general cases. 

 He felt strongly that the mere knowledge of certain truths is, to the 

 great body of literary men, a matter of only secondary importance, 

 when compared with the advantages which result from the exercise 

 of the understanding and the improvement of the reasoning faculty : 

 and it may safely be added, that there have been few who, in their 

 own persons, have exhibited a closer union of vigorous intellect, 

 high science, and practical good sense. 



His talents, indeed, were of a high order, and his acquirements 

 were of corresponding extent and variety ; but that which, in con- 

 nexion with his intellectual character, distinguished him above many, 

 his equals in other points, was the humility and gentleness of his 

 nature. It is not, in truth, within the range of these notices of the 

 deaths of men of science to advert with any fulness to their personal 

 and domestic character, and almost as little to the part which they 

 may have taken in other paths distinct from that which led them to 

 the Royal Society. But, in the briefest notice of any dignitary of 



