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 whose talents and assiduity are so well known. This measure was thus announced to the general meeting of the Society, on the 8th Feb. 1828:

Captain Smyth’s services to the profession were not terminated by his retirement to Bedford; a paper on the advantages of a museum, known to have been written by him, appeared in the “United Service Journal” for Sept. 1829, and excited great attention, both in the army and navy. This he afterwards followed up by a letter to the editor of that periodical; which we cannot but copy here:

“Crescent, Bedford, Oct. 12th, 1829.

“Sir,– I am requested by my friend, Commander Henry Downes, whose intrepidity has already introduced him upon your pages, to make an offer if his services towards the founding of a United Service Museum. His words are,–

“‘It is with much pleasure that I have read, since my return from Africa, the spirited leading article of the 8th Number of the new Journal,