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Robert Mallet was elected an honorary member of the Society of 

 Arts of Scotland, 1840, of the Academy of Science, Arts, and Belles 

 Lettres of Dijon (1853), a Fellow of the Royal Society (1854), an 

 honorary member of the United Service Institntion (1857), Fellow of 

 the Geological Society of London (1859), and corresponding member 

 of the Physical Class of the Royal Philosophical Society of 

 Gottingen, 1869. 



In 1846, Robert Mallet read before the Royal Irish Academy, a 

 remarkable paper on the " Dynamics of Earthquakes," which was the 

 commencement of a long series of contribntions to a branch of 

 physical geology with which his name will always be associated. 

 The chief of these contributions were (in addition to that just 

 named) : — 1. Earthquake Catalogue of the British Association 

 (1858).* 2. The Great Neapolitan Earthquake of 1857 (2 vols., 

 1862). 3. Volcanic Energy (" Phil. Trans.," 1872). 



For these valuable contributions to physical geology he received 

 the Cunningham Medal of the Royal Irish Academy (1862), and the 

 Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London (1877). 



In 1855 he read before the Royal Irish Academy a paper on the 

 Construction of Artillery of a large Calibre, in consequence of which 

 he was elected a special honorary member of the Royal Artillery 

 Institution, Woolwich (1867). 



In 1859 he received the Telford Medal of the Institution of Civil 

 Engineers, for his paper on the Coefficients of Elasticity and Rupture 

 in Wrought Iron. 



In scientific thought, Robert Mallet was remarkable for the 

 originality of his ideas, and for the broad grasp he took of every 

 subject that engaged his attention ; in private and social life he was 

 beloved for the kindness, geniality, and humour of his disposition, for 

 his readiness in conversation and uniform good temper. 



S. H. 



Arthuk Pexrhtn Stanley, D.D., Dean of Westminster, died after 

 a brief illness, on the 18th of July, 1881, in the sixty-sixth year of his 

 age. The profound sorrow with which the unexpected announce- 

 ment filled the hearts of all persons in the country of every class and 

 creed, from the Queen, of whom he was, to use her own words, a 

 " most trusted friend and adviser," to the poorest of her subjects, has 

 been so abundantly chronicled in newspapers, magazines and sermons, 

 that it need not be further referred to here. Nor is this the place to 

 speak in any detail of his remarkable position as an ecclesiastical 

 politician, as a theologian or historian ; but though without claims to 

 be considered a man of science, so eminent a Fellow of the Society must 



* In preparing this catalogue lie was assisted by his son, J. W. Mallet, at that 

 time Professor of Chemistry in the University of Alabama. 



