OBITUARY. 



ROBERT BROWN. 

 Born March 23, 1842. Died October 26, 1895. 



"DOBERT BROWN ("Campsterianus"), the well-known botanist 

 -^-^ and editor of popular works on science, was born at Campster, 

 Caithness. He was educated at Edinburgh University, and in later 

 life visited Leyden, Rostock, and Copenhagen for educational purposes. 

 At Rostock, he read his thesis " Species Thujae et Libocedri quae in 

 America Septentrionale gignuntur." From i860 to 1875 Dr. 

 Brown was a great traveller, visiting Jan Mayen, Spitzbergen, and 

 Greenland in 1861 ; the West Indies, the Pacific, Vancouver, and 

 Alaska in 1863-66 as botanist to the British Columbia Expedition ; 

 Greenland in 1867, in company with Mr. Whymper ; and after 1868 

 he travelled in Northern Africa. He was the author of numerous 

 papers, but the public will remember him best by his editorship of 

 "Peoples of the World," the "Story of Africa and its Explorers," 

 and " Science for All." 



The Hon. Walter B. D. Mantell, son of Gideon Algernon 

 Mantell, and himself a geologist of considerable merit, died at 

 Wellington, New Zealand, on September 7. Mr. Mantell was born 

 in 1820, but left England for New Zealand about 1840, where he 

 became a man of great public importance, holding the posts of 

 Minister for Native Affairs and of Postmaster-General and Secretary, 

 for Crown Lands. He was ever mindful of the interests of the 

 Maoris. Mantell was the first to explore the Waikonaiti and 

 Waingongoro Moa beds, and his collections ultimately found a 

 resting-place in the British Museum. He retained to the end his 

 interest in geology, and possessed many specimens that had belonged 

 to his father, some of them possibly of historic interest. 



Abraham Viktor Rydberg, who died at his home near Stock- 

 holm on September 21, at the age of 67, was not merely the greatest 

 writer both in prose and poetry that Sweden has known since the 

 days of Tegner, but a learned authority on the history and develop- 

 ment of art and culture. It is chiefly through his researches into the 

 myths of the Teutonic peoples that he is known to the narrower 



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