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on his life, evidently written by one well- acquainted with his merits, 

 remarks, " He was in all respects perfectly trustworthy : all secrets 

 confided to him were sacred ; and the most distinguished of his con- 

 tributors were farther ready to admit the value of his suggestions 

 and the justice of his criticisms." 



He continued to attend to the duties of his class at the Univer- 

 sity very nearly to the time of his death. 



He married young, and left a large family at his death, which 

 happened in the 71st year of his age. 



During the latter years of his life his health had been declining ; 

 but his intellectual powers were unimpaired to the last. By those 

 with whom he was intimate even a higher estimate of his talents 

 is entertained than what is felt by those who merely look to the im- 

 portant share that he took in literature and science as the editor 

 of the Encyclopsedia Britannica and the Edinburgh Review. So at 

 at least says the author of the memoir alluded to already. This 

 seems difficult ; but they alone can judge of the merits of his confi- 

 dential correspondence and his part in domestic society : it is per- 

 haps more important to say, that he was "a pious, an intelligent 

 and an honest friend." He became a Fellow of the Royal Society 

 in the year 1817. 



The Rev. John Hailstone was born on the 13th of December, 

 1759, and received his early education at Beverley School in York- 

 shire. From thence he went to Cambridge, where he pursued his 

 mathematical studies with so much success that he took the high 

 degree of Second Wrangler at the examination in the year 1782. 

 The same course of study was followed by him in after-life. 



In the year 1784, he became a Fellow of Trinity College, and in 

 1788, he was appointed to the office of Woodwardian Professor of 

 Mineralogy. After holding this Professorship for the long period of 

 thirty years, he married and retired to the vicarage of Trump- 

 ington, near the University ; a village interesting to the lover of 

 literature as having been the residence of Anstey, the author of the 

 Bath Guide, and at a subsequent period, of Mr. Hailstone's brother 

 professor, the celebrated traveller, Edward Daniel Clark. 



Here Mr. Hailstone died on the 9th of last June, at the very ad- 

 vanced age of 87, retaining his faculties till the last. After his 

 election to the Woodwardian Professorship he went to Germany to 

 profit by the lectures of Werner. To Mr. Hailstone the University 

 is indebted for additions to her collection of minerals and fossils. 

 He published a syllabus of Lectures, but did not succeed in bringing 

 together a class, as he received little or no encouragement from the 

 heads of the University. He published little : one paper in the 

 Geological Transactions, and a few short notices in the Transactions 

 of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. In politics he was a whig. 

 He was a friend to education, as he showed by the endowment of 

 a day-school, and the expenditure of several hundred pounds in im- 

 proving a parish school. 



