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  :: was intended to be preached at Charenton on the day on which the church was closed.
 * 1) ‘A Discourse concerning Penance,’ 1688.
 * 2) ‘A Discourse concerning the Merit of Good Works,’ 1688.
 * 3) ‘An Historical Discourse concerning the Necessity of the Minister's Intention in administering the Sacrament,’ 1688.
 * 4) ‘Reflections upon the Books of the Holy Scripture to establish the Truth of the Christian Religion,’ two vols. (the first published in French, 1687, the second in English, 1688).
 * 5) ‘Preparation for the Lord's Supper,’ 1688.
 * 6) ‘An Examination of the Scruples of those who refuse to take the Oaths,’ 1689.
 * 7) ‘Some Remarks upon the Ecclesiastical History of the ancient Church of Piedmont,’ 1690.
 * 8) ‘Remarks upon the Ecclesiastical History of the Albigenses,’ 1692. (In these two books Allix tries to prove that the Waldenses and Albigenses had preserved the truth unchanged from apostolic times.)
 * 9) ‘The Judgment of the ancient Jewish Church against the Unitarians,’ 1689. (He shows that the Jews always held the divinity of their expected Messiah.)
 * 10) ‘De Messiæ duplice Adventu.’ (He tries to make out that the second Advent would be in 1720, or at latest 1736.)
 * 11) ‘Animadversions on Mr. Hill's Vindication of the Primitive Fathers against Reverend Gilbert,’ 1695.
 * 12) ‘Dissertatio in Tatianum.’
 * 13) ‘Preface and Arguments on the Psalms,’ 1701.
 * 14) ‘Nectarii Patriarchæ Hierosolymitani Confutatio Imperii Papæ,’ 1702.
 * 15) ‘Augustini Hermanni Franche [of Halle] Manuductio ad lectionem SS. edita studio P. A.,’ 1706.
 * 16) ‘Dissertatio de Domini Nostri anno et mense natali,’ 1707.
 * 17) ‘A Confutation of the Hopes of the Jews,’ 1707.
 * 18) ‘Prophecies applied by Mr. Whiston, &c., considered,’ 1707.
 * 19) ‘Reflexions critiques et théologiques sur la controversie de l'Eglise’ (no date).

 ALLMAN, WILLIAM, M.D. (1776–1846), professor of botany at Dublin, was born at Kingston, Jamaica, on 7 Feb. 1776, but his parents removed to Ireland before he was four years of age, his mother being a native of Waterford. He was educated at that town, and Trinity College, Dublin, where he obtained a scholarship, and graduated B.A. in 1796, M.A. in 1801, and M.D. in 1804. He practised medicine in Clonmel until 1809, when he was elected professor of botany in Dublin University. Soon after this event he became acquainted with Robert Brown, the botanist, with whom his friendship was lifelong. In consequence of this intimacy, Dr. Allman arranged his lectures in 1812 on the natural system, he being the first professor in the British isles to do so. He held the chair of botany until 1844, when he was succeeded by Dr. George James Allman; but he did not long enjoy his well-earned leisure, for he died on 8 Dec. 1846.

In addition to the two mathematical papers mentioned in the ‘Catalogue of Scientific Papers,’ he wrote ‘On the Mathematical Relations of the Forms of the Cells of Plants,’ in the ‘British Association Report’ for 1835, erroneously attributed in the above-mentioned catalogue to his successor. He was also the author of an ‘arrangement of plants’ according to their natural affinities, which was read before the British Association at Dublin in 1835, and printed in its ‘Proceedings.’ This was afterwards more developed and issued under the title ‘Familiæ Plantarum,’ Dublin, 1836, as a text-book for his classes. His best known work is a thin quarto entitled ‘Analysis per differentias constantes viginti, inchoata, generum plantarum quæ in Britanniis, Gallia, Helvetia &hellip; sponte sua crescunt,’ London, 1828. In 1844 he privately brought out an abstract of a memoir read in 1811 before the Royal Society, but not printed, on the mathematical connection between the external organs of plants and their internal structure.

 ALLOM, THOMAS (1804–1872), architect, born in London on 13 March 1804, was articled to Francis Goodwin, and spent more than seven years in his office. He was as much artist as architect, and, in the employ of Messrs. Virtue & Co. and Messrs. Heath & Co., he furnished the drawings for the series of illustrated works upon which his reputation rests. Amongst these may be named his ‘Cumberland and Westmoreland,’ ‘Devonshire and Cornwall,’ ‘Scotland,’ ‘France,’ ‘Constantinople,’ ‘Asia Minor,’ and ‘China.’ He exhibited for many years at the Royal Academy, ‘where his charming pencil usually gained a place of honour.’ ‘He was frequently called upon to assist his professional brethren, and there are few artists who forget the vigour and beauty of the drawings, made for the late Sir Charles Barry, of the new Houses of Parliament,