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 MSS. containing large materials for the Natural History of Kent and Middlesex.

[See Wood's "Athenæ Oxon," by Bliss; "Hasted's Kent," Biographia Britannica," and Gentleman's "Magazine" for 1805.]

JOHN POND,

ASTRONOMER,

Was born at Maidstone in 1767, and educated at the Grammar School there, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. Becoming distinguished for his astronomical knowledge, he was appointed to succeed Dr. Maskelyne as Astronomer Royal, in 1811, which office he retained till the year before his death in 1836. He was buried at Lee, in the tomb of the celebrated Halley, one of his predecessors. He devoted his chief attention to determining the places of fixed stars, of which he published a catalogue of 1,113 in 1836.

[See "Gentleman's Magazine," 1836.]

JOHN POYNET,

BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,

Was born in 1516, and educated at King's College, Cambridge. He became early distinguished as a mathematician and mechanist. Embracing the principles of the Reformation, he was made Bishop of Rochester by Edward VI., at the early age of thirty-three, whence he was advanced in 1551 to the See of Winchester. When Queen Mary came to the throne, he retired to Strasburg,