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Rh, and often suffering from ill health. Heart disease has taken him off suddenly (at the age of about forty-eight) from amongst his friends, before his well-loved work was finished as he wished; but he had always given his best attention to the advancement of science in general, and of geology in particular, among the community around him; and having always identified himself with the Literary and Scientific Institutions of Port Elizabeth, and showed the greatest personal interest in its public Library, Museum, and public Hospital, his townsmen, who, in large numbers of all grades of society attended his funeral, regret him as a kind warm-hearted friend,—a loss which will not be readily replaced.—(T. R. J.)

Captain died on the 8th of September, 1869, at Biebrich, in Prussia, where he had resided for several years. Whilst a resident in this country, Capt. Ibbetson was on terms of intimate friendship with the late Prof. Edward Forbes, in conjunction with whom he communicated to this Society a description of the section between Blackgang Chine and Atherfield Point, in the Isle of Wight, which was published in the first volume of our Quarterly Journal. He also communicated to the Dresden Natural-History Society, Isis, a notice of the Cretaceous formation of the Isle of Wight, and presented several papers on geological subjects to the British Association. For many years Capt. Ibbetson devoted much of his attention to the preparation of models of various interesting sections of country, and to the application of the electrotype process to the coating of perishable natural-history specimens with metal, in order to preserve accurate representations of them.

Capt. Ibbetson presented his valuable collection of fossils to the Museum of Practical Geology many years before his death.

, F.R.S., F.L.S., for many years Librarian to the London Institution, was a pupil of Prof. Brande at the Boyal Institution, and as early as the year 1824 published, in the 'Philosophical Magazine,' a paper on luminous meteors, a subject which occupied his attention nearly to the close of his life. His principal contribution to our science is his paper on the formation of rock-basins, published in the 'Philosophical Magazine' in 1830. Mr. Brayley possessed a wide range of knowledge, and his printed memoirs, although not numerous, include papers on Physics, Astronomy, Chemistry, Zoology, and Meteorology. He died rather suddenly on the 1st of February, 1870.

was one of a small body of enlightened citizens who, as long ago as during the first decade of the present century, established a Bristol Philosophical Society; and the foundation of the noble Institution which in 1820 sprang out of that combination, and which now boasts a museum that is rich in many and unique in some objects, may be ascribed mainly to efforts which