This edition, besides a life of Las Casas, contains a necrology of the Conquerors, and other annotations by the editor.
Report of theNecrology Committee fortunately is blank.
The necrology of the year in England includes John Dalton, the physicist, and Sir Francis Burdett, the parliamentarian and popular leader, who did so much for liberty of speech and of the press.
All the phantoms of this necrology passed before my eyes.
If it had fallen while we were passing, one more catastrophe would no doubt have been added to the list, already too long, of the necrology of Mont Blanc.
It was also his duty as archivist to enter the names of deceased members of the community and their relatives in the necrology of the house, that they might be remembered on their anniversaries.
