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whose right hand he sat, and whose place in the chair he 
had so fitly and worthily occupied from time to time, so 
eloquently and feelingly, and as it were, forebodingly, uttered 
on the afternoon of the same day in his concluding speech, 
that possibly some of those then present might not meet 
together at the next anniversary, should so soon and so fatally 
be fulfilled! My departed, long valued, and ever-to-be-lamented 
friend lost his life literally through his devotion to science, hay- 
ing gone on the line to examine a geological formation; and 
sure I am that in every relation of life his loss will never 
be forgotten, as it can never be repaired. On one only other 
occasion in my life, when another valued friend, W. V. J. 
Surtees, was most unfortunately drowned at Oxford, have 
I ever had such a shock as the sudden account of his death. 
Peace to the memory of the departed. How little do we 
know ‘what a day may bring forth! » 
