mention. Some of these were: _The Jamaica Almanacs_; _Transactions of
the Jamaica Society of Arts_; _Transactions of the Royal Society of
Arts of Jamaica_; _The Jamaica Physical Journal_; _Jamaica Monthly
Magazine_; _Jamaica Quarterly Magazine_. In England he contributed to
the _Proceedings of the Zoological Society_; and in America to the
_Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science_, Philadelphia, and the
_Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History_, New York.

In stature he was tall and commanding, though perhaps the comparison
of him to Antinous made by the writer of an obituary notice was a
little exaggerated. All who knew bore testimony to his generosity,
philanthropy, modesty, even temper, and unfailing self-forgetfulness,
his kindness of heart, his piety, and his catholicism in matters of
religion. A portrait of him executed in oils, it is said, by James
Wyeth, an American artist who spent a short season in the island, is
in the Jamaica History Gallery at the Institute of Jamaica, which also
possesses a pencil sketch of him done by himself.

For two or three years before his death Hill suffered from failing
eyesight. He died, unmarried, at Spanish Town, on September 28, 1872,
at the advanced age of seventy-eight. His remains were followed to the
grave by an immense concourse of all classes.

FRANK CUNDALL,
_Secretary, The Institute of Jamaica_

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Taken in great measure from the biographical notice by the writer
in the _Journal of the Institute of Jamaica_, July, 1896.

[2] For a general sketch of this period see W. J. Gardner's _a History
of Jamaica_, pp. 211-317.

[3] This movement had for years been promoted by the heroic few. It
was then getting a hearing in Parliament. They first advocated the
abolition of the slave trade and then directed attention to slavery.

[4] These contributions closely connected Hill with the men whose new
thought revolutionized science a few decades later.

[5] San Domingo was then independent and the success of the free
Negroes there would have a direct bearing on the anti-slavery
movement, as indifferent white men sometimes contended that the free
Negro was a failure.

[6] Slavery in the British West Indies was not actually abolished
instantly. Gradual emancipation was the method tried in most parts and
even in cases of immediate emancipation the system of apprenticeship
which f