Thornton John Herapath, F.C.S.

the outer world can recognize our ancient , traditional , and just claims as au intellectual institution in -which the hidden mysteries of nature and science have their votaries . Brother Herapath was the descendant , not only of an ancient English family iu the west of England which has been seated there from the thirteenth century at least—but he belongs to a familywhich

, promises to occupy a place among the family groups in scientific biography , like the Cassinis , the Bernouillis , and " the Herschels . William Herapath has created for himself a reputation in chemistry on the two continents . To the public ho is only known as a toxicologist , because the reports of the application of his technical skill come to them in au accessible form—to the world of science he is

known by wider claims ; and there is hardly a man iu the country who has done so much for the application of chemistry to our arts and manufactures . Ho has sacrificed present reputation to public usefulness , but hereafter his name will be better known in tho annals of science . John Herapath , another member of the same family , is still loss known to the popular world ; indeed his name may be said to

beunknown—and yet he is the author of perhaps the greatest work in one of the highest branches of philosophy which this country can boast of in the present day , or since the time of Newton . That great undertaking the ' . ' Mathematical Physics " ( of which so much fortunatel y has been already published , and the completion of which only needs the last corrections of the distinguished author ) , will live as long as the writings of Herschcl ,, Babbage , or Baily , Whewell , Airy , Peacock , or Hopkins , and when some of these will have ceased to feed the

popular requirements of the day . The work referred to is one of vast labour and research , not only in those problems of astronomy which have engaged Laplace and Lagrange , but in succession of Newtonembracing the whole range of physical science , even to those elementary substances or properties where the calculator and the experimentalist , the mathematician and the chemist come in contact . -

Thornton Herapath , it will bo scon , promised to continue in another generation the reputation of his family , which is likewise , sustained by his eldest brother , Dr . William Bird Herapath , one of our distinguished physiologists , who would be distinguished as a chemist were it not that his father and brother have already preoccupied public attention so far as regards that science . Tho present

generation have likewise this claim upon Masons that they arc in brotherhood with us . Besides the late Thornton Herapath , Bro . William Bird Herapath , W . M . of No . 1 ) 86 , in Bristol , is a very distinguished Ivlason of that province , and Bro . Spencer Herapath , of the Lodgo of St . Alban ' s , No . 33 , is known to many metropolitan brethren not onl y as a zealous Mason , but as a man of great attainmentsand as a successful

, cultivator of political science . Another Mason allied to this family Bro . John Studley Leigh , of No . 33 , holds high rank as a philologist and is one of the few men in this country who has cultivated the Northern African groups , His grammar of the Somahuile or Somaulc