a nightingale, whose melancholy cadence harmonized with our feelings.

"Whenever you are at Esher," said the devoted daughter, the last
time we conversed with her, "do visit my mother's tomb." We did so.
A cypress flourishes at the head of the grave; and the following
touching inscription is carved on the stone:--

Here sleeps in Jesus a Christian widow, JANE PORTER. Obiit
June 18th, 1831, ætat. 86; the beloved mother of W. Porter,
M.D., of Sir Robert Ker Porter, and of Jane and Anna Maria
Porter, who mourn in hope, humbly trusting to be born again
with her unto the blessed kingdom of their Lord and Savior.
Respect her grave, for she ministered to the poor.

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RECENT DEATHS.

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MR. KIRBY, THE ENTOMOLOGIST.

The Rev. William Kirby, Rector of Barham, Suffolk, who died on the 4th
ult. in the ninety-first year of his age, with his faculties little
impaired, ranked as the father of Entomology in England; and to the
successful results of his labors may he chiefly attributed the advance
which has been made in this over other kindred departments of natural