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��1889, August 30th (Marquis of Salisbury).

��Widow of General Scott.

��Sir Thomas Duff us Hardy.

��MBS. ELLEN S. SCOTT.

" In consideration of the services of her late husband, Major- General Henry Scott, C.B., R.E., to science and art, and of her inadequate means of support. 100/."

Henry Young Darracott Scott (1822-83), second lieutenant Royal Engineers, 1840. At Chatham he had charge of the chemical laboratory. There he perfected the selenitic lime which goes by his name. His system of representing ground by horizontal hachures and a scale of shade was adopted for the army as the basis of military sketching. He was employed under the commission of the Exhibition of 1851, and on Sir Henry Cole's retirement was appointed secretary. He also rendered service to many subse- quent exhibitions (' D.N.B.,' vol. li.).

1891, June 10th (Marquis of Salisbury).

Daughter of MlSS IZA DUFFTJS HARDY.

" In recognition of the long and valuable services of her late father, Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy, and in consideration of her inadequate means of support. 100Z."

Thomas Duffus Hardy (1804-78), archivist, entered the Govern- ment service 1819, in the branch Record Office at the Tower of London. On Petrie's retirement the compilation of the ' Monu- menta Historica,' published in 1848, was entrusted to him. He succeeded Palgrave as Deputy-Keeper of the Records, July 15th, 1861 (' D.N.B.,' vol. xxiv.).

1891, June 10th (Marquis of Salisbury). MBS. ELIZA BRISTOW.

" In recognition of the long services of her husband, the late Mr. H. W. Bristow, on the Geological Survey, and in consideration of her inadequate means of support. 45?."

H. W. Bristow, F.R.S. ; died June 14th, 1889 (Athenceum, obituary notice, June 22nd, 1889).

1892, January 2nd (Marquis of Salisbury).

Widow of Sir LADY GREEN.

Kirby Green. " ^ n recognition of the long and valuable services of her late

husband, Sir William Kirby Green, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Tangiers, and in consideration of her inadequate means of support. 1201"

Sir William Kirby Green, a distinguished savant of the Foreign Office, Acting Agent and Consul-General at Tunis, 1869-71, and afterwards in Albania,

��Widow of H. W.

Bristow.

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