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philosophy which is rarely met with in the members of his profes- 

 sion. 



Sir Thomas Frankland, as long ago as the year 1795, was the au- 

 thor of a short paper in our Transactions on the welding of cast 

 steel and iron. 



Mr. Wm. Strutt of Derby was the author of those great improve- 

 ments in the construction of stoves, and in the economical generation 

 and distribution of heat, which have of late years been so extensively 

 and so usefully introduced in the warming and ventilation of hos- 

 pitals and public buildings. He possessed a very great knowledge 

 of practical mechanics, and employed himself through the whole 

 course of a very active life in the furtherance of objects of public 

 utility. 



Dr. Parkinson, Archdeacon of Leicester, gained the highest ho- 

 nours at Cambridge, and was the author of a treatise on mechanics. 

 In his early life he was employed, in conjunction with Israel Lyons 

 and others, in the formation of the tables requisite to be used with 

 the Nautical Almanac. 



Dr. Sims was a very zealous cultivator of botanical science, and 

 continued for many years the publication of Curtis's Botanical Ma- 

 gazine. 



Dr. Ferris, besides other professional publications, was the author 

 of a work entitled "A General View of the establishment of Physic 

 as a Science in England." 



The Rev. William Holwell Carr was a gentleman of refined and 

 cultivated taste, and a liberal patron of the fine arts; he has esta- 

 blished no slight claim upon the gratitude of his country by the be- 

 quest of his collection of exquisite pictures to the British Museum, 

 whose Council have thought it most advisable, for their better pre- 

 servation and security, as well as for the furtherance of that gentle- 

 man's views in making such a magnificent present to the nation, to 

 deposit them in the British Gallery. 



The Earl of Darnley was a liberal patron of the Fine Arts, and a 

 zealous friend of all useful public institutions : and he gave a most 

 convincing proof of the interest which he felt in the promotion of 

 natural knowledge, by the formation and maintenance of a noble 

 collection of rare and curious plants and animals. 



Mr. Thomas Hope, the justly celebrated author of Anastasius, 

 and Dr. Magee, Archbishop of Dublin, author of the great work 

 upon the Atonement, are names not likely to be soon forgotten in 

 the literary history of this country; but they require no further 

 notice from me, as their labours are altogether foreign to the pur- 

 suits of this Society. 



The only Foreign Member whose death we have to record is the 

 celebrated Sommerring, who died lately at Frankfort, his native city, 

 full of years and honour. His numerous and most splendid ana- 

 tomical works, particularly those on the different organs of sense, 

 have long placed him at the head of the anatomists of Germany, and 

 probably of Europe. 



