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lie was appointed Sheriff of Caithness. In the following year ho 
was transferred to the Sheriffdom of Bute, and in 1839, he was ap- 
pointed Solicitor-General for Scotland. In the following year he 
was appointed one of the Lords of Session, and in 1849 one of the 
Judges in the Court of Justiciary. In the same year he was 
elected a Fellow of this Society. In these various legal offices 
which Lord Ivory filled his judgments were distinguished by their 
great soundness, as well as by the elegant diction in which they 
were expressed. 
Before he was called to the Bar, Lord Ivory published a treatise 
on the Form of Process, and in 1827, the first volume of his 
edition of Erskine’s Institutes, the second volume of which ap- 
peared some years afterwards. In consequence of ill health, Lord 
Ivory resigned his seat on the bench in 1862. Since that time, 
his health gradually declined, and he was carried off by a stroke 
of paralysis on the 17th October 1866, in the 74th year of his age. 
Lord Ivory was married, in 1817, to the daughter of Mr Lawrie, 
Deputy-Gazette Writer for Scotland. His eldest son, Mr Thomas 
Ivory, is counsel to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests; and 
his third son, Mr William Ivory, Sheriff of Inverness-shire. 
John Frederick Louis Hausmann, a distinguished geologist and 
mineralogist, was born at Hanover on the 22d February 1782. 
After completing his studies at Brunswick and Gottingen, he was 
appointed in 1803 to a situation in the administration of the Mines 
at Brunswick, and in 1805 he made a geological tour through Nor- 
way and Sweden. In 1809 he was appointed by the government 
Inspector General of the Mines and Saltworks of Westphalia, but 
he soon resigned this office in order to devote himself to the study 
of Mineralogy. In 1811 he was appointed Professor of Mineralogy 
and Geology in the University of Gottingen, and while he filled 
this important chair, he devoted himself to the examination of the 
Harz Mountains, and made many geological excursions in Sweden, 
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Holland, France, Spain, and England. He was councillor of state 
in Hanover, an active member of the Koyal Society of Gottingen, 
and a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences, in the 
Imperial Institute of France. 
Professor Hausmann was the author of various Articles and 
