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PARRY. 303 tory at Guttingen, ( Physische Gesellschaft) : in 1808, an honorary member of the Farming Society of Ireland : and in 1814, a vice-president of the Merino Society of London. Dr. Parry had four sons and five daughters ; of the former, the illustrious navigator. Captain Sir William Edward Parry, R. N., is the youngest. Dr. Parry died at his house in Sion Place, Bath, on the 9th of March, 1 822, having removed thither from his usual residence, the Circus, in April, 1817. On the 25th of October, 1816, he had been afflicted with a paralytic attack, which deprived him of the use of his right side ; and during the remainder of his life, a period of nearly six years, rendered his speech imperfect, and almost unintel- ligible. Though his existence was become a state of complicated bodily disease and suffering, his mental activity never deserted him. He occupied himself in reading during many hours of the day, and marked every interesting passage that occurred to him. From these he caused the most valuable parts to be transcribed by his daughters, and in this manner formed several volumes of useful and miscellaneous information. His professional life being ended, his chief occupation and amusement now consisted in his farm and in his gardens — the entire direction and management of which he undertook. Under these circumstances, he dic- tated the collection of anecdotes and reminiscences to which allusion has above been made ; and on the arrival of his son, Captain Parry, from his first expedition to Melville Island, he revised the whole of his First Journal, previously to its being submitted to publication.