conversation, by repeated examinations, and by giving prizes for special studies, as, for instance, for the study of Edward Coke's writings. He repeatedly received testimonials from his pupils, and his bust was presented to University College. In 1837 Amos was appointed "fourth member" of the council of the Governor-General of India, in succession to Lord Macaulay, and for the next five years he took an active part in rendering the code sketched out by his predecessor practically workable. He also took a part as a member of the "law commission" in drafting the report on slavery in India which resulted in the adoption of measures for its gradual extinction. The commissioners were unanimous on the leading recommendation that "it would be more beneficial for the slaves themselves, as well as a wiser and safer course, to direct immediate attention to the removal of the abuses of slavery than to recommend its sudden and abrupt abolition". Amos, with two commissioners, differed from the remaining two as to the remedies to be proposed. The majority inclined to leave untouched the lawful status of slavery, and with it the lawful power of the master to punish and restrain. They thought this power necessary as a check to the propensity to idleness which the situation of the slave naturally produces. At the close of Amos's term in India, he was forced into an official controversy with Lord Ellenborough, the Governor-General, as to the right of the "fourth member" to sit at all meetings of the council in a political as well as a legislative capacity. When Lord Ellenborough's general official conduct was brought under the notice of the House of Commons, his alleged discourtesy to Amos was used as an argument in the debate by Lord John Russell, but this controversy was closed by the production by Sir Robert Peel of a private letter given to him without authorisation in which Amos incidentally spoke of his social relations in his usual way. It was a lasting political misfortune for Amos that by this misadventure his political adversaries won the day in a debate of the first importance. On Amos's return to England in 1843 he was nominated one of the first county court judges, his circuit being that of Marylebone, Brentford, and Brompton. In 1848 he was elected Downing Professor of the Laws of England at Cambridge, an office he held till his death