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Rh It is needless for me to add what a severe loss his lordship's death must be to those who are interested in oriental pursuits, and indeed to his country itself, when we reflect on the large empire held by England in the eastern regions of the globe.

Lord Munster married Miss V/yndham in 1819, and has left a family to lament his death. He was elected President of the Asiatic Society only a short time before his decease.

Richard Hussey, Lord Vivian, was educated at Harrow, and entered the army as an ensign in the year 1793. In 1803, he be- came a major; Lieutenant-Colonel in 1804; and Colonel in 1812. He was promoted to the rank of Major- General in 1814, and Lieu- tenant-General in 1830. His first active service was under his late Royal Highness the Duke of York in Flanders. Under Sir John Moore, he commanded the 7th Hussars in 1808 and 1809, and a brigade of cavalry from September 1813 to the termination of the Peninsular war. He was present at the battles of Orthes, Nivelle, and Toulouse ; and near the latter place was severely wounded. He also partook of the glory of Vv^aterloo.

Lord Vivian represented his native town of Truro in 1 820 ; sub- sequently, the borough of Windsor ; and lastly, the eastern division of Cornwall in Parliament. He was Commander-in-Chief in Ireland from the year 1831 to 1835, when he filled the office of Master- General of the Ordnance under Lord Melbourne. He received a peerage in 1841, and retired from office at the same time as the ministry which he had supported.

Lord Vivian was Colonel of the 1st Guards at the time of his death. He was universally beloved by those who knew him in pri- vate life. As an officer, he was accessible to all, and indefatigable in his exertions in the public service, and few have been held in greater esteem by those under their command.

In the performance of his ofBcial duties as Master-General of the Ordnance, he evinced a due sense of the importance of science to the national v/elfare. He zealously forwarded the views of the Royal Society, and of the British Association, for the promotion of Magnetical Science, by the establishment of magnetical ob- servatories. He highly approved of the employment, to a li- mited extent, and in time of peace, of the officers and soldiers of the Ordnance department in national scientific i^ndertakings, and gave much consideration to the means by which the objects pf the joint application of the above-named Societies might be ob- tained.

He was also the advocate for the Museum of Economic Geology, and an earnest promoter of the Trigonometrical Survey of the British empire.

John Yelloly, M.D., was born in 1773, at Alnwick in Northumberland, and received his early education at a school in that town. He chose medicine as his profession ; and at the age of 20, went to Edinburgh, and after going through the usual course of