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 personally, but little known in Euglish scientific cireles; in America, however, not in Baltimore only, but in many other parts of the States, especially among the younger physiologists, he has left behind him a memory which will not soon pass away; while those in this country who knew the brightness of his early days will always hold him in affectionate remembrance.

М. F.

BRIAN HoGHTon HODGSO, of the Bengal Civil Service, oriental seholar, zoologist, and diplomatist, was born in February, 1800, at Prestbury, Cheshire, and was the eldest son of B. Hodgson, Esq., of Lower Beech, in that county. He belonged to a long-lived family his father attaining his ninety-second year, and a grandmother and a great-grandmother their ninetieth. He was educated at Dr. Davies' school, Macclesfield, and was, according to the wishes of his great uncle the Bishop of London, and relative the Dean of Carlisle, intended for the Church; but, having no desire for holy orders, at sixteen years old a nomination to the East India College of Haileybury was obtained for him. Pending the passing his preliminary examination at Haileybury, young Hodgson was the guest of Professor Malthus, then preparing the seventh edition of his "Principles of Population," who directed his attention to politics as a career; whilst a casual preseutation at the Governor's house to Canning, then President of the Board of Control, who addressed the youth with a brilliant sketch of the career possible to an Indian civilian, fired him with ambition to become a diplomatist, of which his stirring career, at the Court of Nepal, was the fruit. At Haileybury, Hodgson gained high honours in languages and political economy, finally passing out in 1817 as "First of his year." In 1818 he sailed for Calcutta, where he passed a year in the College at Fort William, studying the vernacular, Sanskrit, and Persian, and becoming a proficient in the latter. At Calcutta his health broke down, and, after a severe attack of fever, no choice was left him between abandoning the service or obtaining a hill appoint- ment. The latter-an all but unattainable prize for an untried youth was, nevertheless, thanks to his early promise, and more to the private influence of powerful friends with the Government, obtained for him, and he was appointed Assistant to the Commissioner of Kumaon, a province of the Western Himalaya ceded by the Ne- palese a few years previously.

Fortunately for Hodgson, his chief, G. W. Traill, was a first-rate official, and, equally fortunately, Kumson was in a condition of disorganisation and savagery that taxed the highest qualities of its new rulers. It was Traill's first duty to obtain the confidence of a people driven into the jungles of all but pathless mountains by the