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many years a constant attendant at the meetings of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. 



Sir Walter was an ardent collector of Indian coins, and a leading 

 authority on the subject. His principal numismatic work was a> 

 memoir on the " Coins of Southern India," which forms the second 

 part of the third volume of the International ' Numismata Orientalia.' 

 Sir Walter is in fact the only man who has worked systematically on 

 Southern Indian coins, a neglected subject to which Marsden and 

 Prinsep made some small contributions. In the work above men- 

 tioned, he has laid a solid platform, on which future Indian 

 numismatists may proceed to build. With his habitual liberality he 

 transferred more than 300 of his most valued coins to the collection 

 in the British Museum. Besides this most important work, Sir 

 Walter published two papers on the same subject in the ' Madras 

 Journal of Literature and Science' (new series, vol. 3 and 4), under 

 the title of " Numismatic Gleanings." 



In private life, it may be said in conclusion, Sir Walter Elliot 

 was one of the kindest and most amiable of men. His sweet and 

 genial disposition, and great liberality in every way, endeared him not 

 only to his immediate friends and relations, but to all those with 

 whom in various ways he came in contact. In 1839 he married 

 Maria Dorothea, eldest daughter of Sir David Hunter Blair, Bart., of 

 Blairquhan, who survives him, and by whom he leaves a family of 

 three sons and two daughters. 



Sir Walter was elected F.R.S. in 1878, and LL.D. of the 

 University of Edinburgh in 1879. He was made a Knight Com- 

 mander of the Star of India in 1866. 



P. L. S, 



Sir Joseph Whitworth was born at Stockport on December 21st, 

 1803. His school education terminated at the age of fourteen. He 

 was then sent to an uncle, a cotton-spinner in Derbyshire, with the 

 intention of his being brought up to that business. His mechanical 

 tastes were, however, too strong, and in 1821 the idea of cotton- 

 spinning was given up, and he obtained employment and experience 

 for four years in the works of different machine-makers in Man- 

 chester. In 1825 he went to London, and was engaged successively 

 with several of the most important engineering firms, amongst them 

 Maudslay and Holtzapffel. He also worked with Clement, who was 

 engaged in the construction of Babbage's calculating machine. In 

 1825 he married his first wife, Fanny, youngest daughter of Mr. 

 Richard Ankers. In 1833 Whitworth returned to Manchester, and 

 set up as a tool-maker on his own account. His business and repu- 

 tation rapidly increased. In 1840 he read a paper before the British 

 Association on his method of preparing accurate metallic plane sur- 



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