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damage to any of the frail and delicate preparations of which it, in a 

 great part, consists." And the best testimony to the exemplary ful- 

 filment by Mr. Clift of his responsible duties is afforded by the present 

 condition of the Hunterian Collection, and the great accessions it has 

 received during his able conservatorship. From the duties of this 

 office Mr. Clift was allowed to retire with a full salary, which had been 

 progressively increased to 400/. per annum, a few years before his 

 decease, which took place on the 20th of June, 1849, six wrecks after 

 that of his wife, to whom he had been tenderly attached and united 

 more than fifty years. 



He has left an only daughter, married to his successor, who com- 

 bines with the office of Conservator of the Museum, that of Hunterian 

 Professor to the Royal College of Surgeons ; and this notice of the 

 worthy and estimable colleague whose loss we now deplore, cannot 

 better be concluded than in the words which his son-in-law has in- 

 scribed upon his monument : — " He carried a child-like simplicity and 

 single-mindedness to the close of a long and honoured career." 



Edward Stanley, D.D., Lord Bishop of Norwich, and Clerk of 

 the Closet to Her Majesty, was the youngest son of the late Sir John 

 Thomas Stanley, Bart., of Alderley Park, in Cheshire ; whose eldest 

 son, having inherited the baronetcy by the death of his father, was 

 subsequently created a peer by the title of Baron Stanley of Alderley, 

 and still survives, the oldest Fellow of the Royal Society. 



The late prelate was born on the 1st of January 1779, and was 

 consequently in the seventy- first year of his age at the period of his 

 death. He w^as partly educated at the grammar-school of Maccles- 

 field, was afterwards entered of St. John's College, Cambridge, and 

 was a Wrangler at that University in 1802. 



His early predilection for the navy is well known, and it is be- 

 lieved that it was not without reluctance that he yielded to the wishes 

 of his family to forego a profession to which his youthful taste and 

 inclination so much attached him. But to whatever pursuit his 

 ardent and energetic mind was once directed, there was no after- 

 hesitation, no drawing back from the duties to which he had devoted 

 himself, and no lukewarmness in the manner in which those duties, 

 whatever they may have been, were fulfilled by him. In his position 

 as a parish-priest, in the incumbency of the family-living of Alderley, 

 and, in a still more remarkable manner, after his elevation to the 

 Episcopal authority, his active and energetic mind seems to have 

 sought relaxation only in a change of labour ; and he retained to the 

 latest period of his life the same incessant occupation of mind and 

 active bodily exertion which had characterized the earlier part of his 

 life. He was equally remarkable for the great simplicity of his heart, 

 the unbounded charity and kindness of his feelings, and the cheer- 

 fulness of his conversation and manners ; and he possessed, in an 

 extraordinary degree, the power of attracting the respect and per- 

 sonal attachment of those even who differed from him in opinion on 

 matters which too frequently tend to produce personal animosity, 

 and lead to the breach of many a friendship. 



The Bishop very early evinced a great fondness for the study of 



