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of these is the Duke of Northumberland, a patron of this 
Society, a nobleman equally distinguished for the warm interest 
which he took in the cultivation of science, and for the kindness 
and liberality of his personal character. When Lord Prudhoe, 
the Duke travelled in Egypt and Abyssinia, and brought 
home from the former country a large collection of antiquities, 
part of which may be seen in the British Museum, while the 
remainder form a fine Museum at Alnwick Castle. In later 
years, Mr. Me Lachlan was enabled by the Duke’s assistance 
to make a careful survey of the Eoman Wall and Watling 
Street, the results of which were published at his Grrace’s 
expense. The Duke died in February last, at Alnwick Castle, 
the restoration of which he had just completed. The death 
of the Rev. John Lees, which took place in March, is a more 
direct and personal cause of regret. Mr. Lees was for several 
years a Member of the Council, and also held the office of 
Honorary Librarian. He always took the greatest interest in 
the prosperity of the Society, and on several occasions favoui’ed 
us with some portions of the fruits of his researches, in the form 
of lectures on interesting matters of Ecclesiastical History. 
Our list of Honorary Members has lost some of its most 
distinguished names during the past year. S. Hunter Christie, 
Esq., E. R. S., &c., Professor of Mathematics in the Royal 
Military Academy at Woolwich, and for many years an 
Honorary Member of this Society, died on the 24th January 
last, at the age of 80. Professor Christie particularly devoted 
his attention to the study of Magnetism, and many valuable 
memoirs upon this subject were published by him in the 
Philosophical Transactions. 
Another Honorary Member of very long standing, was Sir 
William Jackson Hooker, a distinguished botanist, Cm’ator of 
the Royal Botanic Grardens at Kew, who died, also at the age 
of 80, on the 12th August last. The death of Admiral Fitzroy, 
on the 30th April, deprived us of one of oim most recently ad¬ 
mitted Honorary Members : he was elected only in 1863. The 
Admiral’s services, as a scientific navigator and hydrographer, 
and of late years in connection vuth the Meteorological Depart¬ 
ment of the board of trade, are too well knovm to need more than 
