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his health. The change did not produce the hoped result. Lord 

 Alford gradually sank ; and his death proved too great a shock to 

 the naturally sensitive temperament of Lord Xorthampton. He 

 expired only a few days after the decease of hi? son-in-law, at his 

 seat of Castle Ashby, on the 16th of January, surrounded by all the 

 members of his family except a son, was with his regiment in 

 India. 



It is difficult to abstain from dwelling longer on Lord Northamp- 

 ton's admirable gifts and accomplishments, and still more, on his 

 virtues. He was full of kindness and benevolence for all who came 

 under his notice, and seemed to be absolutely incapable of injustice 

 or unfairness ; and though a most clear-sighted judge of intellectual, 

 scientiiic and artistical excellence,, was with difficulty, if at all, moved 

 to harshness towards shallow and petulant pretensions. He was 

 zealous for the promotion of art as well as science in his native 

 country; and even in the last days of his life his thoughts and his 

 pen were engaged on a plan connected with that object. 



Thomas Galloway, Esq., late a Member of the Council of this 

 Society, died of disease of the heart on the 1st of November, at his 

 residence in Torrington Square, and was buried at Kensal Green. 



Mr. Galloway was born in the Upper "Ward of Lanarkshire, on 

 the 26th of February, 1796, his father being a farmer, and his 

 grandfather a mechanical engineer. He vras educated at the parish 

 school of his neighbourhood, at the Academy of New Lanark, and 

 the University of Edinburgh ; at which last he entered in November 

 1ST2, and continued there eight sessions. At hrst he was mostly 

 devoted to classical studies, but turned to mathematics as a special 

 pursuit by the encouragement and teaching of the late Professor 

 Vrallace. 



His first publication, probably, was the article on Pendulums in 

 Brewster's Cyclopcedia, about 1521 ; and he afterwards wrote 

 various scientific articles in Leyboum's llepository and the Ency- 

 clopedia Britannica, and he moreover published a special work on 

 'Probabilities.' In the year 1823, he was elected Teacher in the 

 Royal I\iilitary College at Sandhurst, vrhere his accuracy of know- 

 ledge and business-like habits rendered him both efficient and 

 popular. 



In 1531, he married a daughter of his fiiend Professor Wallace; 

 and in November 1532, he was selected for further consideration out 

 of all the Candidates for the Chair of Natural Philosophy in the 

 University of Edinburgh, by the Town Council, with Sir David 

 Brewster and Professor Forbes ; when the latter was elected. But 

 in the year following he was called to undertake the important office 

 of Register, that is, in modern language, Actuary of the Amicable 

 Life Assurance Office, the oldest Institution of the kind ; the duties 

 of which he ably conducted to the day of his regretted death. 



The gentlemen present will remember that Mr. Galloway was 

 the author of an excellent paper on the ' Proper Tvlotion of the 



