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engaged on work for the British and Foreign Bible Society. This early training- 

 stood him in good stead, for in 1833 he was sent out by the Church Missionary 

 Society to establish a press in New Zealand. Here he spent his long life, 

 devoted to missionary work mainly, and to botany, zoology, and ethnology 

 secondarily. His first paper, on botany, was published in 1842 in the Tasmanian 

 Journal of Science, and since that date he had contributed 32 papers on the 

 above subjects to various periodicals. Colenso was an enthusiastic collector, and 

 supplied Richard Owen with much information concerning the Moa and other 

 extinct vertebrates. His knowledge of the Maori, his antiquities, and myths, 

 was second to none. 



THOMAS HINCKS, B.A., F.R.S. 



Born at Exeter, July 15, 1818; Died at Clifton, January 25, 1899. 



The well-known author of "A History of the British Hydroid Zoophytes" 

 (1868), "A History of the British Marine Polyzoa" (1880), and a long series 

 of papers on marine zoology, most of which appeared in the Annals and 

 Magazine of Natural History, was the son of the Rev. William Hincks, 

 formerly professor of natural history at Toronto. From 1855-1869 he was 

 minister of the Mill Hill (Unitarian) Chapel at Leeds, where he took an active 

 part in public and philanthropic affairs, turning his leisure meanwhile to 

 marvellously good account in zoological work, which is a model of painstaking- 

 accuracy and sound judgment. Failure of the voice compelled him to abandon 

 his ministerial work, but he continued his scientific researches with zest almost 

 to the end. At Taunton, and afterwards at Clifton, he lived his quiet life, 

 gardening and observing and helping other workers. He was the last survivor 

 of that illustrious company to which Professor M'Intosh recently referred {Nat. 

 Sci. vol. xiv. p. 76) in his obituary notice of Allman. 



The deaths are also announced of Professor Dareste de la Chavanne, of 

 Paris, the well-known teratologist ; F. Gay, of Montpelier University, a student 

 of the green , algae, aged 40 ; Gilbert H. Hicks, First Assistant Botanist and 

 Seed Expert of the United States Department of Agriculture since 1894, for 

 many years an editor of the Asa Gray Bulletins—he, left a work on seeds shortly 

 to be published by the Macmillan Co. ; Major J. Hotchkiss, author of a 

 number of papers on economic geology ; Dr. Franz Lang, teacher of natural 

 history at, and rector of, the Cantonal School at Soleure, Switzerland, aged 78 ; 

 Professor Gianpaolo Vlacovich, anatomist, at Padua. The Aberdeen 

 students' Magazine Alma Hater, for January 25, contains affectionate apprecia- 

 tions and a good portrait of the late Professor Alleyne Nicholson 



