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and thigh ; in fact , I believe they have them all complete . The hones of the dog lay beside the human bones . " SCIENCE . —'' FACTS IN NATURAL HISTORY . —A Belgian savant has just discovered , that electric light , directed on the human body , makes it so diaphanous as to enable the arteries , veins , anil nerves to be seen at work , ancl their action to be studied . —A self-priming gun has been invented , which fixes caps on the nipple for sixty successive rounds . —A great
sensation is stated to have been excited at Paris , by the extraordinary phenomenon of a young girl from Normandy , who possesses the electric power of the torpedo . M . Arago has made several proofs of this singular quality . —A pike was taken by Count D'Orsay out of the river Trent which weighed 22 ^ lb . — Signor cle Vico has discovered a comet at Rome , and Mr . Broasen discovered one at Kiel . As Biela ' s comet is now visiblewith another near itthis makes four cometswhich nowin the
, , , , absence of moonlight , are visible above the horizon immediately after dark . " BIRTH . —August 1 , at AA ' akefield , the wife of Bro . Charles Clapham , P . M . 179 ( Unanimity ) , of a son . MAI-KIEII . —Lately , near Exeter , Bro . AV . L . AVright , P . M . 329 , to Miss Arnold .
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June . —BRO . THE REV . FENTON , set . 62 . —Brother-in-law of the Rev . Dr . Oliver , leaving a widow and nine children . The deceasetl Brother was Past Provincial Grand Secretary for Lincolnshire . July 4 . —Kito . AVM . GREVILLE JONES , set . » tS . — He met with an accident at Kingsland , having been knocked down by a cab—concussion of the brain ensued—lie became delirious and died a few clays after in that state . He was one of the surgeons to the Royal Free Hospital in Gray ' s
Inn Road , having been connected with it from its earliest institution in Greville street . His talent was undoubted , but his habits so eccentric as scarcely to enable him to profit by the hand of friendship freely extended towards him by many who knew his claims to distinction , would he but have properly advanced them . He , probably , was thrust forward too early in life , for when in his articled pupillage he edited the " ¦ Encyclopedia Londonensis , " of which his late father was the proprietor , and some of the articles , that on " Physiology" especially , were considered to be masterly ; but he reaped no advantage from this position . He afterwards delivered lectures on anatomy and surgery , which
were much approved , differing from the then general system by dividing the course into " regions . " He also edited " The Medical and Surgical Examiner , " in which he clearly proved his title to a first position in the profession ; all , however , would not do—his habits were incompatible with that staidness of character so essential to the success of a medical man . Many there are , however , who have been indebted to Greville Jones for their position in society , for , had he not re-written their works—pamphlets and other lucubrations—they would have
remained in privacy . AVe make these remarks advisedly and in justice to one who , with all his faults , did not lack generosity nor a willingness to oblige others . " De mortuis nit nisi bonum" may be a correct axiom , but we say to such as we have alluded to—" remember the two daughters of him to whom you are morally if not legall y
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and thigh ; in fact , I believe they have them all complete . The hones of the dog lay beside the human bones . " SCIENCE . —'' FACTS IN NATURAL HISTORY . —A Belgian savant has just discovered , that electric light , directed on the human body , makes it so diaphanous as to enable the arteries , veins , anil nerves to be seen at work , ancl their action to be studied . —A self-priming gun has been invented , which fixes caps on the nipple for sixty successive rounds . —A great
sensation is stated to have been excited at Paris , by the extraordinary phenomenon of a young girl from Normandy , who possesses the electric power of the torpedo . M . Arago has made several proofs of this singular quality . —A pike was taken by Count D'Orsay out of the river Trent which weighed 22 ^ lb . — Signor cle Vico has discovered a comet at Rome , and Mr . Broasen discovered one at Kiel . As Biela ' s comet is now visiblewith another near itthis makes four cometswhich nowin the
, , , , absence of moonlight , are visible above the horizon immediately after dark . " BIRTH . —August 1 , at AA ' akefield , the wife of Bro . Charles Clapham , P . M . 179 ( Unanimity ) , of a son . MAI-KIEII . —Lately , near Exeter , Bro . AV . L . AVright , P . M . 329 , to Miss Arnold .
Obituary.
Obituary .
June . —BRO . THE REV . FENTON , set . 62 . —Brother-in-law of the Rev . Dr . Oliver , leaving a widow and nine children . The deceasetl Brother was Past Provincial Grand Secretary for Lincolnshire . July 4 . —Kito . AVM . GREVILLE JONES , set . » tS . — He met with an accident at Kingsland , having been knocked down by a cab—concussion of the brain ensued—lie became delirious and died a few clays after in that state . He was one of the surgeons to the Royal Free Hospital in Gray ' s
Inn Road , having been connected with it from its earliest institution in Greville street . His talent was undoubted , but his habits so eccentric as scarcely to enable him to profit by the hand of friendship freely extended towards him by many who knew his claims to distinction , would he but have properly advanced them . He , probably , was thrust forward too early in life , for when in his articled pupillage he edited the " ¦ Encyclopedia Londonensis , " of which his late father was the proprietor , and some of the articles , that on " Physiology" especially , were considered to be masterly ; but he reaped no advantage from this position . He afterwards delivered lectures on anatomy and surgery , which
were much approved , differing from the then general system by dividing the course into " regions . " He also edited " The Medical and Surgical Examiner , " in which he clearly proved his title to a first position in the profession ; all , however , would not do—his habits were incompatible with that staidness of character so essential to the success of a medical man . Many there are , however , who have been indebted to Greville Jones for their position in society , for , had he not re-written their works—pamphlets and other lucubrations—they would have
remained in privacy . AVe make these remarks advisedly and in justice to one who , with all his faults , did not lack generosity nor a willingness to oblige others . " De mortuis nit nisi bonum" may be a correct axiom , but we say to such as we have alluded to—" remember the two daughters of him to whom you are morally if not legall y