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London, and, we believe, in most parts of the country. The council 
and officers of the Pharmaceutical Society were among those who at¬ 
tended, though uninvited, at the grave. They could not be restrained 
from thus following the last earthly track of him with whom they had 
so long laboured harmoniously, and to whom they were accustomed to 
look as to one capable of fulfilling the parts both of counsellor and 
leader.” 
Mr. Bell was a warm patron of the fine arts, and has 
nobly left to the nation all his best paintings, untrammelled 
by any conditions. 
Died, on the morning of Tuesday June 28th, Mr. James 
Hudson, the late Secretary of the “ Royal Agricultural 
Society of England.” 
“Mr. Hudson had been seriously indisposed for a considerable time, 
and was known of late to have been gradually sinking. He was in the 
fifty-fifth year of his age. Mr. Hudson succeeded the late Mr. William 
Shaw, as Secretary of the Royal Agricultural Society, in the year after 
the opening meeting at Oxford in 1839, He entered upon the duties of 
this appointment with the highest testimonials in his favour, having 
previously held for nine years the office of assistant-secretary and libra¬ 
rian to the Royal Society at a salary of three hundred per annum. He 
withdrew from the Royal Society in November, 1834, having during the 
year previous received the public thanks of that Society, accompanied 
by a present of twenty guineas, ‘ for the able manner in which he drew 
up the report on the adjudication of the Society’s medals.’ He is still 
well remembered and spoken of by the Fellows as a very efficient 
officer. It will be seen from this that the Council of the Royal Agri¬ 
cultural Society were thoroughly justified in the selection they made, 
and for many years their expectations were amply realised. Mr. Hud¬ 
son quite sustained his character as an efficient officer, and until very 
lately no man could be more respected. Indeed the recent proceedings 
were such as to utterly astound many of his friends, although it was 
known to some that he had long been in difficulties. An effort, in fact, 
was made, we are told, a year or two since, to save him ; but from some¬ 
thing like a positive disinclination on his own part, it was not proceeded 
with. He leaves a widow and a very large family.” 
Truly our stay in this world, when the longest, is only a 
little while. Rightly has it been asked, “Are not the sands 
of time always running out ? Does not death ever shoulder 
life in this sad world ? Tread not the feet of those who bear 
the corpse, on the heels of the guests who are hastening to 
the wedding?” Yet— 
“ Weep not for Death, 
’Tis but a fever still’d, 
A pain suppress’d, a fear at rest, 
A solemn hope fulfill’d. 
The moonshine on the slumbering deep 
Is scarcely calmer.—Wherefore weep?” 
ERRATUM, No. S79. 
Page 426, line 15, for “ has occasioned,” read “ have awakened." 
