june 1899] JABEZ HOGG 477 



from the Prince of Wales in 1889 the office of Grand Sword-Bearer in Supreme 

 Grand Chapter. Hogg was best known to zoologists for his " The Microscope," 

 of which the first edition appeared in 1854, and the fifteenth in 1898. Among 

 his other works are "Manual of Photography," 1845; "English Forests and 

 Forest Trees," 1853 ; "Colour Blindness," 1863. He was also the author of 

 numerous papers on the eye, and conducted an investigation into arsenical wall- 

 papers, the results of which he published. He died at Palace Gardens Terrace, 

 London. 



GEORGE CHARLES WALLICH. 



Born November 16, 1815; Died March 31, 1899. 



Wallich was born at Calcutta. His father, Nathaniel, was well known as an 

 Indian botanist. George was educated at Edinburgh University, became M.D. 

 1836. He entered the Indian army in 1838, and served in the following 

 campaigns : Sutlej, 1842 ; Punjab, 1847 ; and Southal, 1855. He retired in 

 1859. 



The author of numerous papers, Wallich's especial claim to remembrance is 

 his " North- Atlantic Sea Bed," 1862, in which was proved conclusively the ex- 

 istence of organic life at great depths in the ocean, depths which since that time 

 have been far surpassed. He contributed some twenty papers to the literature 

 of the Protozoa, establishing the remarkable genus Riipertia, and he Avas the 

 first to throw suspicion on the organic nature of "Bathybius." 



HEINRICH KIEPERT, 1818-99. 



Heinrich Kiepert, whose death was announced at Berlin on April 22, was one 

 of the most distinguished geographers of his time. Born in Berlin in 1818, he 

 was a member of that University, to which he returned in 1859 as Professor of 

 Geography, after a few years of labour in the Geographical Institute of Weimar. 

 His especial subject was South -Eastern Europe and Western Asia, of which parts 

 his maps were authoritative and masterly ; at the same time he devoted much 

 attention to the ancient world, and contributed largely to the elucidation of its 

 cartography. His Asia Minor was perhaps his masterpiece. 



FRANZ VON HAUER. 



Born January 30, 1822; Died March 21, 1899. 



The director of the Vienna Museum was born in Vienna, and was the son of 

 Joseph v. Hauer, Vice-President of the Chamber. He was educated in Vienna, 

 and obtained his technical knowledge of geology in the Berg-Akademie of 

 Schemnitz. In 1843 he spent some time at the ironworks of Steiermark, and 

 in 1844 was called to the Haidinger Museum in Vienna. Becoming assistant 

 to Haidinger in 1846, he published his first paper Die CephaJopoden des 

 Salzkammergvtes. He became attached to the K. K. Geologischen Reichsanstalt 

 in 1849, and was employed surveying in all parts of the Monarchy till 1867, 

 when, on the retirement of Haidinger, v. Hauer became director of the 

 Reichsanstalt. In 1886 he was appointed superintendent of the Natural 

 History Museum in Vienna. Von Hauer published many papers, and was 

 responsible for an important geological map of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy 

 in twelve sheets (Wien, 1867-73), the fourth edition of which appeared in 

 1884. 



