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The Rev. RICHARD BuRGH ByAM, M.A., for nearly 
thirty-nine years vicar of Kew and Petersham, Surrey, 
died on the ist ult. He was one of the oldest members of 
the University of Cambridge, having graduated B.A 1803, 
was tutor of King’s from 1823 to 1828, and examiner of 
the Classical Tripos in 1827, when Professor Kennedy was 
Senior Classic, and again in 1828, when Professor Selwyn 
was Senior Classic. 
The death of M. BRASCASSAT, of the Academy of the 
Beaux-Arts, is announced. He excelled as a painter of 
landscapes and animals. 
It is with great regret that we learn that the very Rev. 
RICHARD DaweEs, M.A., Dean of Hereford, is no more. 
He expired on the roch ult. at the deanery. His mortal 
ailment was cancer in the stomach, from which he has been 
suffering for some time. Mr. Dawes was fourth wrangler 
of his year, B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820, and afterwards fellow 
and tutor of Downing College, Cambridge; in 1850 he was 
promoted to the deanery of Hereford. 
JOHN GOODSIR, the distinguished occupant of the chair 
of Anatomy in the University of Edinburgh, died on the 
13th ult. at Wardie, Since the death of Cuvier, anatomi- 
cal science has sustained no loss so severe or so difficult to 
be replaced as that of John Goodsir. 
M. FELIX JEAN BAPTISTE REIBELL, who had for the 
past nine years been charged with the general inspection 
of the hydraulic works and civil buildings of the French 
imperial marine, has just died at Paris, after a short illness. 
M. Reibell, who was born at Strasburg in November, 1795, 
commenced his professional career with various works at 
Lorient. In 1838, after the death of M. Fouques Duparc, 
who directed the great works at Cherbourg, M. Reibell 
was selected to succeed him. At Cherbourg M. Reibell 
laboured energetically for fifteen years, and it was under 
his direction that the immense d@zgue, commenced in 1783, 
was completed in 1853. The Napoleon III. basin, and a 
great number of other works, were also executed at Cher- 
bourg under M. Reibell’s auspices. He quitted Cherbourg 
in 1854, and during the last thirteen years he held the high 
official position already indicated. 
The Marseilles journals announce the death of M. VALZ, 
honorary director of the Observatory of that city, in his 
8oth year. 
The death is announced of Mr. JOHN PHILLIP, R.A. 
About five weeks ago he suffered from low fever, from 
