guished for the zeal and success with which he carried on his researches in science, than he was for the very conscientious and exemplary manner in which he discharged those duties, and the high tone of moral and religious feeling with which he was seen to hold every thing else as subservient to them.

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As a botanist and mineralogist be early became distinguished for the extent and accuracy of his researches, and was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society, and had his acquaintance and correspondence sought for by the most eminent Botanists of this and other countries; including amongst this number the late President of the Linnæan Society, Sir James Edward Smith. Withering, Sowerby, Hooker, &c. and Professors Aca rius and Swartz of Sweden, &c. these and other eminent men of his time he was frequently consulted, particularly on the order of Lichens, which was a favourite object of inquiry with him, and of which a great many varieties were discovered by him; and it was chiefly through some of his several correspondents, by the specimens and descriptions with which he supplied them, he communicated the result of his researches to the puble; exhibiting on every occasion, in the curs munications he made, such modesty and liberality as greatly to command their es teem. # But, estimable as Mr. Harriman was for his attainments as a botanist, “e was still more so for those higher quali ties which adorn the man and the Christian. To the poor of his flock he was the assiduous visitant and friend,-to the educated and wealthier classes a valued companion and guest, and to all an adietionate but uncompromising monitor and guide. Amiable and beloved in private life, and holding in a just estimate the labours and rewards of ambition, he ecaped or resisted the temptation of wat ing upon the great for preferment; and La ving been once refused it by his Diocesa was content with the sufficiency of a small patrimony, and performed during forty

which is the ancestral name of his family in Germany. Two of this name, and, as it is believed, of his kindred, were eminent as botanists. One was Professor of Botany in the chair of the University of Leyden, and was the predecessor, and nearly the rival in fame, of the great Linnæus; the other at a later period occupied with distinction the Professor's chair of Botany at Strasburg. They had both manifested early and strongly a peculiar predilection for the study of botany, and a talent for excelling in it, resembling, in many particulars, the tact and talent so conspicuous in Mr. Harriman whose botanical friends, in their admiration of his powers of discrimination, were accustomed to say of him that he was born a botanist; In his 17th year he commenced the study of medicine with the design of pursuing it as his profession, and to which, like the eminent botanists to whom we have referred, who were physicians, he seemed to have been led by his ardent attachment to the study of natural history. After two or three years spent in this pursuit, he was compelled to relinquish it on account of some pulmonary affection, and was subsequently induced, on the recovery of his health, to resume his classical studies under the care of the Rev. Mr. Wilson, and to prepare himself for holy orders. In 1787 he was ordained a deacon, and in the following year was appointed to the curacy of Bassenthwaite, in his native county, and afterwards to that of Barnard Castle in the county of Durham. In 1795 he removed to Egglestone, and afterwards to Gainford, both in the same county. In 1808 he married Miss Ayre of King's Lynn, in the county of Norfolk, who still survives him. In 1813 he took the curacy of Long Horsley in Northumberland, and afterwards, at the request of his Diocesan, that of Heighington and Croxdale. In 1821, having previously resigned these engagements, he was inducted into the small perpetual curacies of Ash and Satley, which he held to the time of his decease. These several removes from one curacy to another, arose from causes quite independent of his flock, and generally of himself, and resulted from circumstances which he could not control and did not produce. As the Pastor of a parish he was beloved, and his separation from each deplored; for though the localities in which his ministerial labours laid, afforded him ample means for pursuing his botanical studies, yet in no instance did he avail himself of them to the neglect of any one of the least of the duties pertaining to his sacred office, being through life not more distin

* The following quotation from a le“. ter of the late President of the Linnah Society, will afford a good illustration of the modest bearing of Mr. Harriman. "We wished long ago," he observes," to dedicate to our liberal friend, the Rev. Mr. Harriman, some one of the numerous Lichens of which he was the first disce verer, but could never obtain his cormont, which, probably, Dr. Acharius did not think of soliciting. We are glad that so worthy a name has become thus propery commemorated;" see vol. 36 of Sowerby and Smith's Botany.

years the duties of the sanctuary with no higher appointment than a curate's, and no higher average stipend than seventy pounds a-year; leaving behind him a character blameless before men, and honoured in their recollection for that felicitous gentleness of nature by which it could be recorded of him, what unhappily few beside can boast of, that he never lost a friend and never made an enemy.

LIONEL LUKIN, ESQ.

Feb. 16. At Hythe, in his 92d year, Lionel Lukin, esq.

This gentleman was a native of Essex, and for many years an eminent coachbuilder of Long Acre. In that capacity he had frequently the honour of waiting upon his late Majesty, when Prince of Wales; and his Royal Highness condescended to take an interest in his scientific pursuits, and particularly in the safety-boat of which he was the inventor. His first experiments for this purpose were made on a Norway yawl, which he purchased in 1784; and, having completed the alterations he deemed necessary, and proved their efficacy as far as practicable on the Thames, he procured a patent for the invention, which bore date the 2d of November 1785, and the specification was printed in the third volume of the Repertory of Arts.

About the same time, in addition to his conversation on the subject with the Prince of Wales, he had interviews with the Dukes of Northumberland and Portland, Adm. Sir R. King, Adm. Schank, and other influential persons; and above all, with Lord Howe, then first Lord of the Admiralty, who gave him strong verbal approbation, but was not induced to take any official steps to further his views. Shortly after, he was recommended by Capt. James, then Deputy Master of the Trinity House, to entrust his boat, which he had named the Experiment, into the hands of a Ramsgate pilot, then in London, in order that its powers might be put to the utmost test in violent weather. This was done; but he never heard any more from the man, nor re. ceived any remuneration for the Experiment and its furniture! He heard, indeed, that the boat had frequently crossed the channel at times when no other could venture out; and it was surmised that, having been detected in illicit traffic, it had been confiscated and destroyed abroad.

Having thus disposed of his first boat, Mr. Lukin immediately built a new one for his own use, (about 20 feet long, like the former) which, from the prodigies it performed, he named the Witch. It was

let to several persons, and among others to Sir Sidney Smith, who in repeated trials found that it could neither be overset or sunk; and its rapidity of sailing (from its ability to carry a greater quantity of canvass than usual) was triumphantly proved by Mr. Lukin himself at Margate.

Though for a time Mr. Lukin"s "Unimmergible Boats" excited very general discussion; yet, like many similar inventions rather desirable than absolutely requisite, he had little demand for them. Besides fitting up a boat for the Bamborough Charity, he built only four after his own. One of these has often proved of vital utility at Lowestoft.

Some time, however, after his patent was expired, he was mortified to witness the attention excited by the invention of Mr. Greathead, a boat-builder of Shields, who received not only the honorary approbation of the Society of Arts, but afterwards a pecuniary reward from Parliament; though, to use Mr. Lukin's own words, Mr. Greathead's Life Boat was, "as to all the essential principles of safety, precisely according to my Patent, and differed from it in no considerable respect, except the curved keel, which contributes nothing to the general principles of safety, but renders it unfit for a sailing boat." It may be remarked that the importance of a NAME is in general too little considered, or at least not considered in a right point of view: it is foolishly imagined that the public is most attracted by Greek and grandiloquence; but perhaps we may attribute Mr. Greathead's success to this circumstance, that, while Mr. Lukin's Unimmergible Boat seemed to demand some troublesome exercise of the understanding to comprehend its mysterious meaning, the title of the Life Boat spoke at once to the sympathies of the heart.

In 1806 a correspondent of the Gentleman's Magazine put forward a claim to the invention of the Life Boat, in opposition to that of Greathead, on the part of Mr. Wouldhave of Newcastle; and Mr. Lukin in consequence wrote three letters, asserting the priority of his own patent, which were printed in vol. LXXVI. 621, 819, 1110. The same party, (Mr. Hails, of Newcastle) having about the same time published a pamphlet on the subject, Mr. Lukin also thought proper to do the same, which he put forward under the title of "The invention, principles of construction, and uses of Unimmergible Boats; stated in a letter to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales," 8vo. pp. 36, with a plate.

Mr. Lukin's mechanical ingenuity was

exercised, as might be expected, in his own business; he was the author of several useful improvements in the construction and conveniences of carriages, He also invented a raft to assist in raising persons from under ice, which he presented to the Humane Society, and it has been successfully employed in Hyde Park. He contrived an easily inclining and elevating bedstead, for the comfort of impotent invalids, and presented one to several infirmaries. He was also skilled in the higher sciences; and pursued the study of astronomy, geometry, optics, and hydraulics. He invented a pluviometer, and kept for many years a Diary of the weather, which he compared with that of a correspondent at Budleigh in Devonshire, and which he continued until the year 1824, when his eyesight failed.

Mr. Lukin was at the time of his death the oldest Vestryman in the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields. About eleven years ago he dined at Teddington with four of his brothers, whose ages averaged 76 years. The deaths of James an elder brother, and Charles the youngest, are recorded in the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xc. ii. 476, xcvш. i. 92. By his first wife, Miss Walker of Bishop's Stortford, he has left issue a son and a daughter, the former of whom has issue. He married secondly, Miss Hesther Clissold, of Reading, who survives him.

His body was buried in the churchyard of St. Leonard's, Hythe.

BENJAMIN SHILLITO, ESQ. Sept. 23. At Windsor, Nova Scotia, after a short illness, in his 45th year, Benjamin Shillito, esq. late of the Royal Marine Artillery.

This officer had a commission in the Royal Marines at an early age, and served in that corps, and in the Royal Marine Artillery, for upwards of twenty years as a subaltern, with much credit. In 1829, there being no prospect of immediate promotion, he purchased some land in Nova Scotia, which he cultivated with great success. At the time of his illness he was officiating as a Magistrate, an Assistant Judge, and Commissioner of Schools for the county of Hants, in which he resided; and he died much respected and regretted by his friends and neighbours generally.

On his retiring from the service on the half pay of the Royal Marine Artillery, he married Anne, the widow of the late Captain Barnard, of the Honourable East India Company's ship the Wexford, and daughter of the late Major-General Miller of the Marines, by whom he has left one infant daughter.

CAPT. DAVID THOMPSON.

Lately. At the Mauritius, in consequence of injuries received during a violent hurricane, Capt. David Thompson, the well-known computer and author of the Lunar and Horary Tables, and inventor of the Longitude Scale.

The work which has brought Captain Thompson's name into note among men of science, is his solution of the problem, of clearing the apparent distance of the moon from other celestial bodies, from the effects of parallax and refractionone of the most useful in nautical astro nomy; and he received from the late celebrated Baron de Zach, high commendation for his skill and success in this in. vestigation, and from the late Board of Longitude a tardy acknowledgement of the high merit of his Tables. All methods which solve this problem by approximative formulæ being in some particular cases defective, Capt. Thompson undertook the arduous task of resolving the spherical triangle, for every case which can occur in practice. The correction to one of the approximative formulæ which he adopted, was thus obtained, in every individual case; and these single results were classed in a Table of triple entry, embracing all the cases which can possibly occur. The seaman takes out from the Table the number required for each case, with great ease, and adds it to the calculated numerical value of the approximative formulæ, the defect of which Captain Thompson's Table is intended to supply, and he thus obtains a perfectly correct solution. Captain Thompson also invented a scale adapted to the solution of the same problem, which is made use of by many mariners.

CHARLES WESLEY, ESQ.

May 23. Aged 76, Charles Wesley, esq. for many years Organist to their late Majesties George the Third and George the Fourth.

This celebrated musician was born at Bristol, Dec. 11, 1757, the son of the Rev. Charles Wesley, and nephew to the Rev. John Wesley, the founder of the Methodists. His brother Samuel, also a musical genius, was eight years his junior; he died in 1815. His father communicated to a friend the following notice of his early years. He was 21 years old when I first observed his strong inclination to music. He then surprised me by playing a tune on the harpsichord readily, and in just time. Soon afterwards he played several others. Whatever his mother sang, or whatever he heard in the streets, he could, without difficulty, make out upon this instrument. Almost from

his birth his mother used to quiet and amuse him with the harpsichord. On these occasions, he would not suffer her to play with one hand only: but, even before he could speak, would seize hold of the other, and put it upon the keys. When he played by himself, she used to tie him by his back-string to the chair, in order to prevent his falling. Whatever tune it was, he always put a true bass to it. From the beginning he played without study or hesitation. Whenever, as was frequently the case, he was asked to play before a stranger, he would invariably inquire in a phrase of his own, "Is he a musicker?" and if he was answered in the affirmative, he always did it with the greatest readiness. His style, on all occasions, was con spirito; and there was something in his manner so much beyond what could be expected from a child, that his hearers, learned or unlearned, were invariably astonished and delighted."

When he was four years old, Mr. Wesley took him to London; and Beard, who was the first musical man who heard him there, was so much pleased with his abilities, that he kindly offered his interest with Dr. Boyce to get him admitted among the King's Boys. This, however, his father declined, as he then had no thoughts of bringing him up to the profession of music. However, when he was about six years old, he was put under the tuition of Rooke, a very good-natured man, but of no great eminence, who allowed him to run on ad libitum, whilst he sat by apparently more to observe than to control him.

For some years his study and practice were almost entirely confined to the works of Corelli, Scarlatti, and Handel; and so rapid was his progress, that, at the age of twelve or thirteen, it was thought that no person was able to excel him in performing the compositions of

those masters.

MR. N. WEIPPERT.

Aug. 9. In Albany-st. Mr. Nelson Weippert.

Mr. N. Weippert was originally a pupil of Ferdinand Ries, but had subsequently studied under Moscheles, Hertz, and Hummel. Early and sedulous application had obtained for him that mastery over the mechanical difficulties of the piano-forte, so rarely acquired in after-life, even by the most indefatigable student; and those who were familiar with the performance of this young artist will long remember the power and facility with which he executed the most elaborate compositions, as well as his readiness and certainty in sight-playing. His only publication was some airs, with variations, which appeared shortly before his death.

In private life Mr. N. Weippert was of unassuming manners, and he had not neglected to cultivate that acquaintance with general literature' which distinguishes the man of real taste from the mere artist. His disorder was a gradual decline of health, probably accelerated by incessant attention to the increasing demands of his professional engagements.

CLERGY DECEASED.

Sept. 19. At Clifton, aged 88, the Rev. John Morgan, late Vicar of Scalford, Leicestershire, and for 40 years Head Master of the Grammar-school at Steyning, Sussex. He was presented to Scalford by the Duke of Rutland in 1805.

Sept. 25. At Edinburgh, where he had come to attend the meeting of the British Association, the Rev. David Scott, late Minister of Corstorphine, and Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages in the University of St. Andrew's.

Oct. 5. In Hans place, Chelsea, the Rev. William Augustus Cane, Perpetual Curate of Doddington, Northumberland. He was of Exeter coll. Oxf. M. A. 1797, and was presented to Doddington in the following year by the Duke of Northumberland.

Oct. 10. At Clist Honiton, Devon, aged 84, the Rev. John Hodge, Vicar of Collumpton, and Curate of the former parish for fifty years. He was presented to Collumpton in 1830. He was of a most benevolent disposition and a highly cultivated mind.

DEATHS.

LONDON AND ITS VICINITY.

July 4. In Harley-st. aged 35, John St.-John Long, esq. the celebrated practitioner in cases of consumption, &c. by friction and other means, intended to separate inflammation from the blood. He was originally a portrait painter. His memorable trial in Oct. 1830, for the death of Miss Cashin, when he was convicted of manslaughter, and fined 2504. is noticed in Gent. Mag. vol. c. ii. 461. His own death ensued from the rupture of a blood vessel, from which he had suffered for about two years. His secret has been sold by his executors for the sum of 10,0002.

Aug. 28. In Chesterfield-st. Thomas Snodgrass, esq. formerly of the Madras civil service. Returning from India many years ago with a large fortune, he fitted up a house in Chesterfield-st. with extraordinary splendour, but never received company in it more than once. He has left the sum of 175,000l. to the daughter of a widow lady named Russell, residing in Beaumont-st. Mary-le-bone entirely because her father was kind to him when he first went to India.

Oct. 14. At Staples-buildings, aged 44, Mr. Edward Pidgeon, a gentleman of literary acquirements, and one of the translators of Cuvier's Natural History, formerly an officer in the army.

Oct. 16. In his 74th year, Mr. Richard Stocker, for forty years resident apothecary to Guy's Hospital.

Oct. 20. At Kensington, aged 76, Samuel Everingham Sketchley, esq. for many years an active magistrate for Middlesex, and Second Lieutenant of the same.

Oct. 23. Robert, eldest son of H. H. Southey, M. D. of Harley-st.

In Harley-st. Miss Planta, sister of the late Joseph Planta, esq. of the British Museum.

Oct. 25. At Streatham, aged 75, Jane, widow of Beriah Drew, esq.

In Barnard's-inn, aged 28, Thomas Charles Wilson Mayhew, esq. son of Francis Mayhew, esq. of Fitzroy-sq, and Carey-st. This gentleman was the proprietor and projector of several cheap popular works, having been connected with the Figaro, Lo Studio, the Diamond Shakspeare, the Popular Dictionary of Universal Information, a work principally

compiled from the German Conversazions Lexicon, &c. At the time of his decease he was occupied in four periodical publi cations, a History of England, a Cyclopædia, a translation of French Plays, and the National Library! The application which such a variety of literary labours required, together with certain complicated pecuniary transactions counected with the last, led to his death. The verdict of the Coroner's Jury was that be destroyed himself with prussic acid and fumes of charcoal, being in an unsound state of mind." He has left a wife and one child.

Oct. 26. Aged 39, the wife of Lieut. Edw. Rotton, R. N. who has been bereaved of his wife and seven children in the short space of three years.

Lately. At Camberwell, aged 25, Hollis, son of Hollis Solly, esq.

The celebrated Dr. Eady, an empiric of no ordinary fame, whose name was conspicuous on all the walls in the outskirts of the metropolis. He was one of the humble sons of an honest cooper of Huntingdon.

Nov. 1. At Hackney, aged 78, Mary, widow of the Rev. N. Cotton, late Rector of Thornby, Northamptonshire.

Nov. 4. At Kennington, aged 80, George Martin Leake, esq. Chester Herald. He was the youngest son of Stephen Martin Leake, esq., Garter King of Arms, and brother to John Martin Leake, esq. made Chester Herald in 1752, upon whose surrender of his patent in 1791, the deceased was appointed his successor, and continued in the office until his death. His father, brother, and himself were members of the College for upwards of 107 years. He was interred in the family vault at Stepney.

Nov. 5. At Carlton-chambers, Regentst. F. Shore, esq.

Nov. 7. Jane, wife of Robert Farqubar, esq. Portland-place.

Nov. 9. At South Lambeth, aged 47, Mary Ann, wife of W. W. Gretton, esq. of the Inner Temple.

Nov. 13. In her 63d year, Lady Miles, formerly of Conisbro', Yorkshire.

Nov. 14. In Salisbury-st. Strand, in his 50th year, Capt. George Nicholls, last surviving son of the late John Nichols, esq. of Hackney.

Nov. 16. At Turnham-green, Anthony Goodeve, esq. formerly of Gray's Inn.

At Fulham, Lady Sophia Margaret, wife of Sir Charles E. Kent, Bart. and sister to Earl Beauchamp, and the Countess of Longford. She was the third daughter of Wm. 1st Earl Beauchamp, by Catherine, dau. of Jas. Denn, esq. was married March 4, 1818, and had a sen and heir born in 1819.