Tribes which are connected with Ata Bai are four in number

Tribes which are connected with Jafar Bai are five in

under Charles II.,' A History of the War of Succession in Spain,' a 'Life of the Great Condé,' a 'Narrative of the Insurrection of 1745,' a 'History of the Rise of our Indian Empire,' and several articles in the Quarterly Review.' Those who were acquainted with Lord Stanhope personally, recognised in him, when occasion offered, a mastery of the French language, so graceful and so perfect-both as to construction and rhythm-as could not easily be surpassed by any but a Frenchman born. In 1846, his Lordship was elected President of the Society of Antiquaries, a post which carried with it a Trusteeship of the British Museum; he was also President of the Royal Literary Fund, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Foreign Member of the Institute of France, and an Honorary Doctor of Laws of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. To him also, in conjunction with the late Lord Derby, we are indebted for the establishment of the National Portrait Gallery. In 1858 he was elected Lord Rector of the University of Aberdeen ; and in the yet more important University of Oxford he is known not only as the Founder of the 'Stanhope' prize for the study of modern history, but as having been on several occasions Examiner on his own special subjects. Lord Stanhope had been a member of our Society for twenty-one years, and although the bent of his mind leaned less, perhaps, to our own peculiar topics than to those of history and antiquity, enough has been said to show that in him we have lost a very distinguished member of our Society. His Lordship died at Bournemouth, after a short illness, on the 24th of December last.

Lieutenant-Colonel ALEXANDER STRANGE.This distinguished officer, who in his later years occupied an important position in the scientific world, was not originally destined for the scientific branch of the military profession. He was born on the 27th of April, 1818, the fourth son of Sir Thomas Strange, and after completing his education at Harrow School, was sent to India in 1834, where, at the age of sixteen, he joined the 7th Regiment of Madras Light Cavalry. Some time afterwards, the scientific bent of his mind was discovered by General Worster, who himself instructed the young cavalry officer in the use of astronomical and surveying instruments, and to such effect that the pupil became well versed, not only in the use but in the construction of the instruments. After thus thoroughly qualifying himself, he received, in 1847, an appointment on the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, where his abilities

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and skill found an ample field for their exercise. The section of the great Survey which was first allotted to him was the "Karachi Longitudinal Series "-a triangulation embracing an area of 23,000 square miles, and a length of country of 670 miles, from Sironj, in Central India, to Karachi. Afterwards he was employed on the "Coast Series" along the eastern side of the Peninsula. He was occupied in this latter work in the Goomseor Hills in 1857, when his labours were cut short by a severe attack of jungle fever, which necessitated his removal to the Neilgherry Hills for the recovery of his health. After attaining the rank of Major he retired from the Survey, and in 1857 finally left India for England, after twentysix years of continuous service. In 1862 he was appointed to the post of Inspector of Scientific Instruments for the Indian Services. As an active member of several of the learned Societies of London, Colonel Strange became, during subsequent years, a well-known man in scientific circles; and he employed his knowledge and experience to good effect in agitating for the fuller recognition, on the part of Government, of the importance of encouraging scientific instruction and research. In 1868 he succeeded in obtaining the co-operation of the British Association in this movement, which resulted in the appointment by Her Majesty's Government of the recent "Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction and the Advancement of Science," under the presidency of the Duke of Devonshire, which, after its five years' labours, has issued a Report embodying all the chief points of the scheme which the originator of the movement had at first propounded. Colonel Strange was a Fellow of the Royal Society, and served on the Council of that body from 1867 to 1869. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1861. The only paper which he contributed on a geographical subject was one on a small Altazimuth instrument, which he had invented for the use of travellers in unexplored regions. This was communicated to the Geographical Section of the British Association at Exeter, under the presidency of Sir Bartle Frere. He died on the 9th of March last, at the age of fifty-seven.

SIR J. GARDNER WILKINSON, F.R.S.-This celebrated Egyptologist and traveller died at his seat in Glamorganshire on the 29th of October last, at the age of 78 years. His journeys and researches in Egypt commenced about the year 1822, and the first of his numerous contributions to the geography and antiquities of the

country with which his fame is indissolubly associated- A Narrative of a Journey in the Eastern Desert of Upper Egypt,' undertaken by him in the spring of 1823-was published in the second volume of our Journal.' This Paper was accompanied by an excellent map, engraved by Arrowsmith, from his own surveys and drawings; for in all his journeys he carefully mapped the districts he traversed, and at the conclusion of his Egyptian travels he compiled from his own observations a large general map of the country, which I believe was never published, at least in its entirety, the drawing having remained in the possession of Mr. Arrowsmith, until the death of that distinguished cartographer. He was born in 1797, and educated at Harrow and Exeter College, Oxford. His first visit to Egypt was undertaken for the benefit of health, and being attracted by the marvels of the land, he devoted himself for many years to a minute investigation of its ancient remains and modern topography. His first independent work was the Topography of Thebes,' published in 1835; which was soon followed, in 1837, by his great undertaking, The Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians,' in six volumes, copiously and beautifully illustrated by engravings made from his own drawings. This noble work immediately created for its author a great reputation as a profound Egyptian scholar and elegant writer; and an abridgment was published by himself, in two volumes, in 1854, under the title of A Popular Account of the Ancient Egyptians.' He was created a Knight in 1839. Meantime some of his more 'purely geographical dissertations were communicated to our Society; one, On the Nile, and the Present and Former Levels of Egypt,' in vol. ix. of our Journal': a second, entitled 'Some Account of the Native Lakes of Egypt,' in vol. xiii.; and a third, Remarks on the Country between Wady Halfeh and Gebel Berkel in Ethiopia,' in vol. xx. He became a Fellow of our Society in 1839, and served on the Council in 1841. In 1848 he published a narrative of a tour in the Sclavonic countries east of the Adriatic, under the title of Dalmatia and Montenegro, with a Journey to Mostar in Herzegovina.'

SIR WILLIAM EDMOND LOGAN, F.R.S.-This distinguished geologist, a fellow-worker of our former honoured President, Sir Roderick Murchison, died on the 22nd of June last, at the age of 77 years. He was born, it is stated, at Montreal, Canada, in 1798, but was educated at the High School and the University of Edinburgh.