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landers visiting London could hardly look on gravely when they saw 

 how their old Chief Justice adapted himself to what one of tbera 

 called his " Bohemian and brilliant environment." But even there 

 he was not unmindful of the claims of science. " In the Savage 

 Club " writes one, " it was a familiar sight to see him quietly work- 

 ing at some algebraical research on the back of an envelope or some 

 odd scrap of paper, though always ready to break off and offer a 

 genial welcome to one of his friends." He was a devoted " brother " 

 of the Ivlasonic Order, and soon after his return home from Australia 

 he became a joining member of the Nine Muses Lodge, in which he 

 rose rapidly through various offices to the highest position, being- 

 installed W.M. of that lodge on the 12th February, 1889. 



Sir James Cockle was a man of upright character and simple 

 tastes, of amiable disposition and courteous bearing, constant in his 

 friendships and faithful in all the relations of life ; being absolutely 

 devoid of ostentation, vanity, or pretence, his whole life was a 

 beautiful illustration of the motto on his crest — Esse quam videri. 

 He died at his residence in Bayswater on Sunday, the 27th January, 

 1895, and was buried at Paddington Cemetery on the following 

 Saturday. He had nine children, of whom eight survive ; Lady 

 Cockle also survives him. 



R. H. 



William Pengellt, who died in 1894 at the ripe age of eighty- 

 two, was one of the last survivors of a scientific type represented by 

 Sedgwick, Lyell, Phillips,, Murchison, and the other old heroes who 

 laid the foundation of geological science. He belongs to the heroic 

 age of geology, to that group of men who found British geology 

 almost a terra incognita, and left it so completely explored that there 

 is little left for their successors but to correct mistakes and fill in 

 minute details. 



Pengelly was born in 1812, at East Looe, in Cornwall, of a Quaker 

 stock, and lived all his life in the west country. Like Professor 

 Dana, he took to the sea, and served before the mast. Having, 

 however, a decided taste for mathematics and geology, he gave up 

 seafaring and settled down as a teacher in Torquay. Here, for some 

 sixty years, he threw himself into the work of higher education, and. 

 more especially in the direction of natural science. In 1837, through 

 his energy, the Torquay Mechanics Institute, which had fallen on evil 

 days, was organised and put on a satisfactory working basis. Seven 

 years later he founded the Torquay Natural History Society, and in 

 1863 he extended the range of his personal influence by establishing 

 the Devonshire Association, which took root and flourished exceed- 

 ingly, and has been of great service m the west of England. It is 

 impossible to read any one of the many volumes published by the 



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