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Rh wonderful work that Hunter has left, the labour of his hands, he has himself constructed the most splendid monument of his fame. In every position in which it is viewed, the character of the greatest mind appears inscribed. It is the production of a great intellectual workman, whose penetrating mind embraced the whole of a great design, and whose acute discernment ranged over every subject that would afford illustration. The best offering of gratitude to Hunter, as well as a great boon to science, is to expound, to confirm, and to enlarge, his principles of philosophy.

The changing scene of life is continually adding to the obituary, the names of those. whom we regret. It is a part of my duty to notice, on this occasion, the lamented death of two members of the Council. Mr. John Heaviside died at an advanced age educated in the school of Pott, he continued, during a long life, the duties of a London Surgeon; preserving the cultivated