OBITUAKY KOTICES. 



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Dr. Beale must not be supposed to huxe made any reference 

 to that spiritual life revealed to us in Holy Scripture and 

 \vhich is the Christian's hope. 



])r. Beale was the author of several valuable works whicli 

 liad a wide circulation; the chief of which were How to icork 

 icith the Microscope, the Microsco2')e in Medicine and Frotoplasrn ; 

 or Life, Matter and Mind. He also contributed tlie following 

 X)apers to the Transactions of the Victoria Institute : — 



Vol. 16. " On the New Materialism." 



„ 16. " On tlie Living and the Non-living." 



„ 20. " Structure and Structureless." 



„ 32. " Nature of Life," Part 1. 



„ 33. " Nature of Life " l^art XL 



„ 34. " Water essential to all Life." 



„ 35. " Unseen Life of our World." 



„ 35. " Living God of Living Nature." 



For the excellent portrait of Dr. Beale, wliich forms the 

 frontispiece of tliis volume, we are indebted to the kindness of 

 the Editor of the Lancet, who lent the block for the impressions, 

 and to whom we now otter our thanks. 



Cavalieiie W. p. Jeiiyis : late Curator of the Boyal Industrial 

 Museum, Turin. 



Cav. W. P. Jervis was born in the Belgaum province of Madras 

 in 1831, while his father, Colonel T. B. Jervis, was engaged on 

 the Topographical Survey of India. In 1812 Colonel Jervis, 

 liaving resigned his position in India, returned to England, and 

 l)eing a memljer of the Eoyal Institution, he entered his sons for 

 the special private lectures that were given to mendjers' sons by 

 Faraday, Playfair, and other professors, resulting in the develop- 

 ment of a taste for geology and mineralogy, which his son after- 

 wards cultivated to such useful purpose when residing in Italy. 

 In 1849 Jervis went as engineer to the mines of Hayle, in 

 Cornwall, and some time after he went over to Belgium in the 

 pursuit of drawing and art. Alter his father's death in 1857 

 -lervis went to Edinburgh, where he followed the courses in 

 natural history and chemistry by Professor Lion Playfair, and 

 ])assed the examinations with credit. Here he was invited by 

 ]\I. Devincenzi to collaborate with him in the foundation of an 

 Italian Industrial Museum in Turin, and was elected curator of 

 that institution, a position which he held for several years, 

 during which time he was aj^pointed as representative to several 



