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Thoroughly versed in the classics, he delighted to read and re-read 
the works of the principal authors, most of whom he could quote 
at pleasure. Perhaps his favourite modern language was Italian, 
and Dante his favourite poet. Schiller and Goethe, too, he held in 
high esteem, while in our own literature he was intimately con- 
versant with all the standard authors. 
In the sciences, chemistry, archaeology, geology, meteorology, and 
natural history, each afforded an inexhaustible field of research, his 
varied reading enabling him to keep abreast of the latest discoveries. 
In medicine his knowledge was extensive and accurate, and so 
late as his seventieth year he attended, for his own pleasure, a 
whole winter course of anatomy at the Edinburgh University, under 
Professor Turner. 
Some time before his death his eyesight began to fail, and thus 
he was reluctantly forced to abandon, one by one, his favourite 
studies; but his memory continued clear until his death, which took 
place upon the 8th of March 1885. 
In private life he was esteemed by all who knew him for the 
gentleness of his disposition, his kindness and unvarying courtesy to 
all, rich and poor alike ; but few, save his own family, knew his 
completely unselfish nature, his infinite goodness of heart. 
The following papers are recorded under his name : — 
On Catadioptric Microscopes. Journal of the Asiatic Society , 
vol. iii., 1834. 
Analysis of Raw Silk. Yol. iv., 1835. 
On the Rate of Evaporation in the Open Sea. Yol. xiv., 1845. 
On the Coins of the Independent Mohammedan Sovereigns of 
Bengal. Yol. xv., 1846. 
Sanskrit Inscription from Behar. Yol. xvii., 1848. 
Daily Evaporation in Calcutta. Ibid. 
Note on the Nido-Scythia Coins. Ibid. 
Note on the Inscriptions found in Province Wellesley. Ibid. 
Notice of a Chinese Geographical Work. Yol. xviii., 1849. 
Note on an Inscription from Keddah. Ibid. 
On Preparing Fac-similes of Coins, &c. Ibid. 
On the Connection between Indo-Chinese and Indo-European 
Languages. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , vol. xvi. 
p. 59, 1856. 
