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director of the Bank of England, and was Deputy Governor of the 

 Bank, with Mr. William Cotton as Treasurer, in 1844, when Sir 

 Robert Peel passed the new Bank Act ; the two Governors of the 

 Bank materially assisted Sir Robert in preparing the details of that 

 most useful measure. 



Baron Heath was for many years a member of the Court of 

 Assistants of the Grocers' Company, whereof he was Master in 

 1829, when he presented the Company with his unpublished book, 

 called " Some account of the Grocers' Company," which is a history of 

 the Company from its institution more than five hundred years ago. 

 As a testimony of their appreciation of this work, the Court presented 

 him with a splendid piece of silver plate. 



Baron Heath was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1843 ; 

 he was an accomplished musician and a good linguist, and took 

 much interest in literary and archa3ological pursuits, in following up 

 which, he became a member of several learned societies ; he was also a 

 member of the Roxburghe Club, of the Philobiblon Society, and the 

 Dilettante Society ; he possessed a well-selected library and a large 

 collection of autographs, in which he took great pleasure. 



Baron Heath died on Thursday, the 16th January last, after a few 

 days' illness. 



Professor Kelland was the son of the Rev. Philip Kelland, who at 

 the time of the birth of his son was rector of the parish of Dunster, 

 in Somersetshire. Afterwards it would appear that he removed, to 

 Landcross, in Devonshire. Though an Oxford man himself, his father 

 sent his son Philip to Queen's College, Cambridge, where he greatly 

 distinguished himself among his contemporaries, and in 1834 stood 

 at the head of the honour list as Senior Wrangler and Smith Prize- 

 man. Among those whose names appear on the same list were the 

 Rev. Dr. John William Donaldson, the author of the New Cratylus, 

 and editor of " Pindar ; " and Mr. Main, who became first assistant in 

 the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and subsequently Director of the 

 Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford. The latter subsequently married 

 Mr. Kelland's sister, and between the two old college friends there 

 existed the closest intimacy until Mr. Main's death. Mr. Kelland, 

 who had taken orders in the Church of England, became a tutor in 

 Queen's College, and continued such for the next three years. It was 

 in 1838 that he was appointed to the Chair of Mathematics in the 

 Edinburgh University, as successor to Professor Wallace. For the 

 chair there were a number of candidates, including Mr. Gregory, the 

 author of " Gregory's Examples," and Mr. Edward Sang, and a warm 

 controversy seems to have been carried on as to the respective merits 

 of the rival candidates. Against Mr. Kelland, Sir William Hamilton, 

 then the occupant of the Logic Chair, was in arms, and in June, 1838, 



