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Mr. Hallard became a Fellow of the Royal Society on twenty-first 
January 1867. He was proud of its diploma, pretty constant 
in liis attendance at its meetings, but never read a paper, nor took 
part in the debates. This was partly owing to an inherent modesty 
of nature, and partly because his knowledge and the bent of his 
mind were much more literary and philosophical than scientific. 
He published several able pamphlets on legal topics, one of them 
being entitled “ The Inferior Judge,” and he took a prominent in- 
terest in all questions affecting a reform of the law. Apart from 
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these he did not write much ; yet what he did write showed such 
vivacity, grace, and culture, that, like the aroma of good wine, it 
served but to whet the appetite and to make one wish he had 
written more. But that was not to be ; and so he has passed away 
from among us, still to be held in fond remembrance by a wide circle 
of friends. 
Du. J ohn Muir. By Professor Eggeling. 
Dr. John Muir, who died on the 7th of March last, was born at 
Glasgow on the 5th February 1810, being the eldest son of Mr. 
William Muir, at one time a magistrate of that city. After receiving 
his early education at the grammar school of Irvine and the 
University of Glasgow, he passed to Haileybury College, then the 
training institution for the civil servants of the East India Com- 
pany. In 1828 he proceeded to India, and, having passed with 
distinction through the College of Fort William, and served for 
some years as assistant secretary to the Board of Revenue at Alla- 
habad, and afterwards as a commissioner for investigating claims 
to hold land rent free in the Meerut Division, he was appointed 
magistrate and collector at Azimgurh. During his occupancy of 
these posts (a period of some fifteen years) he always devoted a 
large portion of his leisure to the study of Sanscrit literature ; and 
so well did he succeed in mastering the language, that he himself 
composed several treatises in Sanskrit metre and prose, viz i? a 
description of England, a sketch of the history of India, and two 
treatises setting forth the essentials of the Christian doctrines and 
ethics ; and delivered to the students of Sanskrit at Benares lectures 
in that language on mental philosophy, and kindred subjects (1843). 
