Obituary notices of fellows deceased

Capt. William Allen entered the Navy in 1805. At the passage of the Dardanelles, by Sir John Duckworth, he served on board ‘The Standard ;’ and afterwards took part in the expedition against Java. He was engaged in the Niger exploration under Capt. Trotter in 1841, and in 1848 published an account of the Voyage, in two volumes. In 1855 he brought out another work on the "Dead Sea, and the Overland Communication with the East,” in which he recommended the cutting of a canal from the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea.