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Lodge, was witliin a short walk of this observatory ; and to the end of his 

 life (September 9, 1865) he was engaged in occasional observation. His 

 long list of scientific titles might be supported by as long a list of published 

 works, independently of scientific memoirs. His books on Sicily and Sar- 

 dinia, his Hfe of Captain Beaver, his accounts of his own cabinet of Roman 

 coins and of that of the Duke of Northumberland, his works on the anti- 

 quities of Hartwell, his account of the Mediterranean, and others, are read 

 with pleasure and profit. But perhaps the most remarkable, as the most 

 professional and the most characteristic, is the long series of articles which 

 he contributed to the United Service Journal. In this series, running over 

 more than twenty years, he has discussed almost every possible nautical 

 subject. He was eminently a collector ; and a Nautical Dictionary, of a 

 very wide character, is now in the press under the care of a lady who was 

 for fifty years his scientific colleague as well as his devoted wife. 



An extended account contained in the last annual report of the Royal 

 Astronomical Society will render further detail unnecessary. "We give a 

 few words to the personal qualities of our subject. Admiral Smyth was 

 one of those men who are the cement of all the associations to which they 

 belong. His genial manners, and the full reliance which all placed on his 

 good faith, his kindness, and his activity, did much to promote unity and, 

 when such a thing arose, to prevent misunderstanding from becoming 

 serious disagreement. The compound of the jolly seaman — no other word 

 will do — the educated scholar, and the kind-hearted gentleman, which ap- 

 peared in Admiral Smyth is far beyond any character-painting but that of 

 the dramatist or the novelist. A man is known by his associates ; and 

 when persons of the most different dispositions and temperaments are united 

 through life in pursuit of good objects, there must be a something which 

 keeps them together; and that something must contain benevolence of 

 feeling in large measure. If the world were searched, it would hardly be 

 possible to produce four specimens of mankind so very different as Francis 

 Baily, Richard Sheepshanks, John Lee, and William Henry Smyth, and it 

 would be as difficult to produce four men who lived in more cordial inti- 

 macy and friendship broken only by death. 



JoHANN Franz Encke, For. Memb. R.S., was born on the 23rd of Sep- 

 tember, 1791, at Hamburg, where his father was pastor of St. James's 

 Church. After passing through the Gymnasium of Hamburg, he entered 

 the University of Gottingen in the autumn of ISIL Here he remained 

 pursuing his studies under the direction of Gauss till the spring of 1813, 

 when his })atriotism impelled him to take part in the war. He served in 

 Hamburg till the place fell, and afterwards in Mecklenburg, as Sergeant- 

 Major in the Horse Artillery of the Hanseatic Legion, in which he remained 

 till June 1814. He then resumed his studies in Gottingen, but was again 

 called away by the events of 1815. He now entered the Prussian service, 

 holding a commision as Second Lieutenant in the Artillery, and during the 



