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deem the character of South American mining speculations. Upon 

 quitting their service he engaged in mining adventures of his own ; 

 and it was in returning to England, in consequence of an accidental 

 injury which he received in the course of his operations, that he 

 died at sea, in the thirty- seventh year of his age. 



Me. Joshua Brookes was for more than forty years a distinguished 

 teacher of anatomy, and it is said that during the course of his life 

 he had superintended the anatomical education of more than seven 

 thousand pupils. He had formed a Museum of human and com- 

 parative anatomy, which was second only in extent and value to the 

 Hunterian Collection, and to which he gave the most ready and libe- 

 ral access both to his pupils and to the public. To the completion of 

 this museum, and to the instruction of his pupils, he devoted the 

 whole of his time and of his income ; and it was a melancholy cir- 

 cumstance that he should have been compelled towards the close of 

 his life, when his health, and with it his sources of income were de- 

 clining, from the pressure of pecuniary difficulties, to consent to the 

 sale of his museum. The dispersion of this collection was to him 

 a source of the most poignant distress ; and the latter years of a 

 long life which had been devoted with singular disinterestedness to 

 the public service, were imbittered at once by the pressure of po- 

 verty and the despondency occasioned by the annihilation of those 

 hopes of having raised a lasting monument to his fame, which had 

 formed the great object of his ambition. 



Lieutenant-Colonel John Baillie went to India as a Cadet in 

 1791, and from the commencement of his residence he devoted himself 

 with great diligence to the study of the Oriental languages. Upon 

 the establishment of the College of Fort William, in 1 800, he was 

 appointed Professor of the Arabic and Persian languages, and of the 

 Muhammedan law, a situation which he continued to fill with great 

 credit and distinction for several years. He was the author of 

 Tables elucidatory of a Course of Lectures on Arabic Grammar, 

 of A Collection of the original Texts of the five most celebrated 

 Grammars of the Arabic Language, and of A Translation from the 

 Arabic of a Digest of the Muhammedan Law, of which one volume 

 only out of four was published. His Oriental studies appear to have 

 terminated upon his appointment as Resident at Lucnow, where he 

 continued for several years. He quitted India in 1818, and in 1823 

 he was appointed a Director of the East India Company. Colonel 

 Baillie was one of the founders and most active supporters of the 

 Royal Asiatic Society; and he represented his native town, Inver- 

 ness, and its contributory burghs, in two successive Parliaments. 

 His collection of Persian, Arabic, and other Oriental Manuscripts is 

 said to have been one of the most extensive and valuable that was 

 ever brought to this country. 



Mr. Joseph Whidbey was for nearly fifty years a Master in the 

 Navy, and had been one of the companions of Vancouver in his voy- 

 age round the world. He was a person of great practical know- 

 ledge and skill, and possessed of more than ordinary general attain- 

 ments ; and he was in consequence selected by the Government to 



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