the Latin her reputation was to a great extent made.
Wordsworth and Southey were her intimate friends, and intense admirers
of her genius. In a review written by an eminent critic, it was remarked
of her that "she was the inheritrix of her father's genius, and almost
rival of his attainments."

In August, in his eightieth year, Thomas Thompson, M.D., F.R.S., London
and Edinburgh, Regius Professor of Chemistry in the University of
Glasgow, and President of the Glasgow Philosophical Society. Dr.
Thompson, as a chemist and inventor, had obtained a great celebrity.

In August, the death of Joseph W. Allen, the celebrated
landscape-painter, took place at Hammersmith. He was the son of a
schoolmaster in that place.

In September, George Richardson Porter, senior, Secretary of the Board
of Trade, Treasurer of the Statistical Society. The statistical writings
of this remarkable man brought about many changes in the law, and
conduced signally to the repeal of "the corn-laws."

Dr. Macgillivray, Professor of Natural History, and Lecturer on
Botany in the University of Aberdeen. As a writer, a professor, and a
philosopher, the doctor obtained an enduring fame, not only in Scotland,
but throughout the learned world.

Augustus Nathmure Welby Pugin, the celebrated architect, was among those
called away by death in this month.

In November, Gideon Alderson Mantell, LL.D., F.R.S., F.S.A., F.L.S.
He was distinguished in early life by a thirst for knowledge, and a
capacity to attain it under the greatest difficulties, being lowly
born--the son of a shoemaker at Lewes. As a chemist, a physician, a
naturalist, and a geologist, he obtained a wide-spread reputation.

The Countess of Lovelace died this month. This lady had achieved nothing
remarkable by any effort or genius of her own, but the country felt
great interest in her as the only daughter of the popular poet. Lord
Byron: of her he had sung,--

"Ada, sole daughter of my house and heart."

She was a lady of very elegant mind, and capable of accurate and
profound thought; her intellectual attainments were very considerable,
and of a nature unusual for ladies. Her remains were laid beside those
of her father.

In December, the death of the Rev. Samuel Lee, D.D., was recorded. He
was Canon of Bristol, and Regius Professor of Hebrew in the University
of Cambridge. His knowledge of languages was vast and critical, and
he attained especially a great reputation in the dead l