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the West Indies, and the United States, on behalf of the slaves. 
He united with fifteen other gentlemen of different nations, deputed 
in 1863 to plead with the Queen of Spain, at Madrid, for the - 
liberation of Matamoras and others, imprisoned as Protestants. 
His great affliction at the death, in Egypt, of his only son, R. 
Barclay Fox, in 1855, in the flower of his age, and in a highly 
useful career; of his wife, in 1858, after a happy union of forty- 
four years ; of his daughter-in-law, in 1860; and of his youngest 
child, Caroline, in 1871, was borne in a Christian, unmurmuring © 
submission to the Divine will. Neither commercial nor philan- 
thropic engagements, no scientific pursuits or social pleasures, were 
allowed to interfere with the regular attendance at the religious 
meetings of the Society of Friends, of which he was a member. 
Rising early, being much in the open air, with habitual temperance 
in diet, he enjoyed great vigour of body through a long life (until 
his last illness, the effects of an accident), of which the latter years 
were spent at Penjerrick. Thence he looked down the wooded 
valley on the expanse of sea, on which his grandfather (‘a man of 
‘Christian principles, and most engaging gentleness”) had seen, and 
from the same terrace, the fleets of France and Spain, combined 
for invasion, and heard the warning strains of their bands. 
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MAJOR-GENERAL NELSON, R.E. 
Masor-GEnERAL NELSON, R.E., who died in July, 1877, at the age 
of seventy-four, had been for many years a corresponding member 
of this Institution, although he had not for some time taken an 
active part in its affairs. Not long before his death, however, he 
showed his continued interest in its proceedings by exhibiting his 
portfolio of scientific drawings to the members, previous to present- 
ing these valuable records of his early scientific studies to the 
Linnean Society. Major-General Nelson was a native of Devon- 
port, then and long after his birth known as Plymouth Dock. His 
father was a general in the army who had held command and 
settled in that town; and he at an early age entered the Royal 
Engineers, which had not then developed into the distinguished 
scientific corps which it has since become. The first foreign station 
of the young lieutenant was Bermuda, and here he occupied his 
leisure with making observations on the character and growth of 
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