Last Years
He was elected President of the Ethnological Society in 1861. He died in South Kensington, London on 11 May 1868 at the age of 85.
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“With care, and skill, and cunning art,
She parried Time’s malicious dart,
And kept the years at bay,
Till passion entered in her heart
And aged her in a day!”
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“Though her years were waning,
Her climacteric teased her like her teens.”
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