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survived him only for a few days. He had no issue, and his title 
has descended to his nephew, Sir Alfred W. Trevelyan of Nettle- 
combe, the present baronet. Wallington he bequeathed to his 
cousin, Sir Charles Trevelyan, K.C.B. 
Sir Walter Trevelyan continued actively engaged in his various 
pursuits until March 1879. He suffered a very short illness, having 
been out a day or two before his death, and was occupied, indeed, 
with his correspondence on the morning of that day. He suffered, 
as it seemed, from a cold, accompanied with slight physical depres- 
sion. In the course of March 23d he began suddenly to show signs 
of exhaustion, and sank into death without any continued sign of 
acute pain. He was in the eighty-third year of his age at the time 
of his death. 
The late baronet was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of 
Edinburgh in the year 1822. 
Professor Heinrich Wilhelm Dove. By Alexander 
Buchan, M.A. 
Professor Heinrich Wilhelm Dove was born at Leignitz, Silesia, 
on October 6th 1803, and at the age of eighteen passed from the 
schools of that town to the universities of Breslau and Berlin, 
where for the next three years he devoted himself assiduously to the 
study of mathematics and physics. In 1826 he took his degree of 
Doctor of Philosophy, his thesis on the occasion being an inquiry 
regarding barometric changes ; and it is further significant of his 
future life-work that his first published memoir was a paper on certain 
meteorological inquiries relative to winds — these two subjects holding 
a first place in the great problem of weather- changes. 
In the same year Dove entered on his public life as tutor, and in 
1828 as Professor at Konigsberg, where he remained till 1829, 
being then invited to Berlin as Supplementary Professor of Physics. 
His strikingly clear-sighted, bold, and original intellect turned 
instinctively to that intricate group of questions in the domain of 
physics which comprise the science of meteorology, and his success 
in these fields as an original explorer was so marked and rapid that 
he soon achieved for himself a seat in the Royal Academy of 
