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 partie de celles de la Groenlande en le feuille avec des memoires illustratifs. Veuillez accepter ces echantillons des nombreux travaux de notre célèbre vétéran M. de Loevenoeru! Vous saurez en apprécier le merite.

“Je vous prie de faire les complimens de Me. mon epouse et les miens à Mrs. Smyth, et d’agréer l’assurance sincere de la haute considération avec laquelle je suis, Monsieur, votre bien affectionné,

(Signed)“.”

“''À Monsieur, M. W. H. Smyth, Capitaine de la M.R.''”

In 1821, Captain Smyth was admitted into the Antiquarian and Astronomical Societies of London; his promotion to post rank took place on the 7th Feb. 1824; he was unanimously elected a F.R.S. in June, 1826, on a suspension paper spontaneously signed by the noblest names which enrich the scientific records of the nation; and on the last day of the same year, he was voted a member of the society, then recently established at Florence, for scrutinizing the statistics and natural history of Tuscany. In 1820, he was named an associate of the Academy of Sciences at Palermo; and in July, 1830, chosen one of the Council of the Geographical Society of London, – an institution which he was very instrumental in establishing. He is, moreover, at present one of a Committee for improving and extending the Nautical Almanac.

Besides the work, in quarto, on Sicily and its Islands, already spoken of, Captain Smyth has produced an octavo volume on Sardinia, and another entitled “the life and Services of Captain Philip Beaver, late of H.M.S. Nisus.” We are told, that he has also written several light poems and miscellaneous papers; and we know, that he was an occasional contributor to Baron de Zach’s “Astronomical Correspendence.” He is now arduously employed in investigating the laws of the fixed stars, in an observatory which he has built in his garden, at Bedford, and equipped with very powerful and expensive instruments. During the time these were being constructed, the Council of the Astronomical Society most handsomely voted him the loan of those which had recently belonged to Colonel Beaufoy, of Bushey Heath,