n old
wound escaping from his leg all the time, and able only to sit on
horseback.

T. S. DAVIES, F.R.S., F.A.S., and a Professor of Mathematics in the
Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, died on the 6th of January at
Shooter's Hill, Kent, in the fifty-seventh year of his age. Mr. Davies
was a very distinguished mathematician, and the author of several works
on mathematics. He possessed, also, extensive and varied acquirements in
different branches of science and literature. Nor was he unmindful of
the claims of the more humble aspirant to mathematical honors; his
encouragement and advice were liberally bestowed, as many deserving
young men could testify.

HENRY CHRISTIAN SCHUMACHER, the celebrated Danish Astronomer, died at
Altona on the 28th of December, aged about seventy years. He commenced
his professional career at the age of twenty-five, as professor of
astronomy in the University of Copenhagen. In 1822, his royal master,
Frederic VI., caused to be built, expressly that Schumacher might be
placed at the head of it, the Observatory of Altona. From 1820 to 1829
he published his "_Auxiliary Tables of Astronomy_", in ten volumes,
_quarto_. His _Astronomical Annals_, continued from 1830 to the date of
his death, have, with his _Tables_, given him a high and wide
reputation. In 1832 the King of Denmark established the reward of a
golden medal for the discovery of new microscopic comets; and it was
upon his favorite Schumacher exclusively that he devolved the duty of
verifying the title of claimants and assigning the medal. Since 1847
Schumacher has been the correspondent of the Academy of Sciences of
Paris.

MAXWELL, the Irish novelist, and author of innumerable humorous sketches
in the periodical literature of the day, expired on the 29th of
December, at Musselberge, near Edinburgh. His generally vigorous health
had of late broken down, and he crept into the retirement of this
sequestered village to die. He had been in early life a captain in the
British army, and was of course the delight of the mess-room, and a
general favorite in social circles. He subsequently entered the church,
and was some years prebendary of Balla, a wild Connaught church living,
without any congregation or cure of souls attached to it; though it
afforded what he was admirably capable of dealing with, plenty of game.
Of a warm-hearted, kind, and manly temperament, he made friends of all
who came within the range of his wit or the cir