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afterwards the degree of Doctor of Divinity, and became a zealous 
and efficient member of the ministry, first among his co-mates as 
Chaplain to the Mariner’s Church at Liverpool, and eventually at 
Bradford, as pastor of an extensive manufacturing population. 
The ardent and conscientious discharge of his religious dutieSs 
however, did not prevent him from applying also to the favourite 
scientific pursuits of his youth. Only a year before his death, indeed, 
he undertook a voyage to Australia, for the purpose of testing his 
theory respecting the aberration of the compass in iron ships ; and 
one of his last scientific observations was the measurement of the ocean 
wave in a storm off the Cape of Good Hope, when he ascertained 
that the elevation of the highest, when the sea “ ran mountains 
high,” was forty feet from trough to crest. 
I cannot, consistently with the indispensable brevity of this sketch, 
even so much as enumerate Dr Scoresby’s many contributions to 
science ; but must hasten at once to the close of this theme. 
Scoresby died, after a tedious illness, at a fair old age, in his 68th 
year. Few men can at that age console themselves with the retro- 
spect of so long an existence so usefully spent. The intrepid seaman, 
the skilful navigator, the philosopher of no mean order, and the pious 
divine, was throughout his entire life full of good works in each and 
all of his multifarious vocations. 
The connection of Marshall Hall with our Society has been some- 
what similar to that of the Arctic Navigator. Born in Nottingham- 
shire, and trained there till his 19th year, he then came to this 
city in 1809 to pursue the study of medicine. He graduated at 
our University in 1812 ; remained two years longer as one of the 
resident physicians of the Boyal Infirmary ; was elected during that 
period President of the Royal Medical Society, an office which has 
generally been the forerunner and presage of future distinction ; 
delivered, it seems, a short course of lectures on the Diagnosis of 
Diseases, ever afterwards a favourite subject of inquiry with him ; 
and on leaving this, to settle as a physician in Nottingham, continued 
to maintain his predilection for Edinburgh, as is shown by his having 
joined its Royal Society as a Fellow in 1819. But this has been 
the full amount of his connection with us. 
He had been scarcely twelve years in Nottingham, when the 
promptings of genius induced him to seek a fitter field for its de- 
