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Crewe, and in his spare time studied Latin and Greek and the rudi- 

 ments of science. Removing to Manchester, he contributed to some 

 local paper, and his articles afterwards formed his first book. He 

 adopted the profession of journalist, and was appointed editor of the 

 People's Journal, Norwich, about i860, and made the paper a great 

 success. In 1872, he was appointed Curator of the Ipswich Museum 

 on the death of Mr. George Knights. The museum, once an educa- 

 tional institute of considerable importance, had become somewhat 

 effete, but under Taylor's rule it rapidly gained ground, and became 

 one of the leading museums in the kingdom. Taylor's science 

 lectures attracted numbers of hearers, and he did much to popularise 

 his favourite subject of geology. His skill with the blackboard was 

 remarkable, and he was also successful in modelling and colouring 

 fish. But perhaps Dr. Taylor will be best known by his Science Gossip, 

 a popular natural history journal which had an immediate and wide 

 circulation. This was started in 1866, and is now continued under 

 the editorship of Mr. J. T. Carrington. He was the author also of 

 numerous popular handbooks, the best known of which are " British 

 Fossils," "Half-Hours in the Green Lanes," and " Half-Hours at the 

 Seaside." His last pubhc appearance was at the Ipswich meeting of 

 the British Association last September. 



We are indebted to a sympathetic article by F. W. W. in the 

 East Anglian Daily Times for the greater part of our information. 



MoRiTZ WiLLKOMM, whose death has recently been announced, 

 was born in 1821 at Herwigsdorf, in Saxony. At the age of 20 he 

 went to the University of Leipzig to study medicine and natural 

 science. In 1844 he began his travels in the Spanish peninsula, the 

 flora of which- he thoroughly investigated ; it was this that formed 

 the subject of his thesis when he was admitted into the Philosophical 

 Faculty of Leipzig University in 1852. In the following years he 

 published " Icones et Descriptiones Plantarum novarum criticarum et 

 variarum Europa^ Austro-occidentalis praecipue Hispaniae " (1852-6). 

 Having taught for some time at Leipzig, and afterwards at Tharandt, 

 he was, in 1868, called to the University of Dorpat, and in 1873 to 

 the Chair of Botany in the German University at Prague, in which 

 city he also became Director of the Botanical Gardens. Among his 

 other works may be mentioned " Illustrationes Florae Hispaniae 

 insularumque Balearicum " (1881-92) and the most useful " Prodro- 

 mus Florae Hispaniae " (1861-80) with its supplement in 1893. In 

 the last-mentioned undertaking he was associated with I. Lange. 

 Willkomm also published valuable works dealing with German and 

 Austrian forestry, as well as a hand-book to the plants of Germany, 

 Austria, and Switzerland. 



Professor Heinrich Adolf Bardeleben, the eminent surgeon, 



died at Berlin on September 25, aged seventy-six. He was born at 



Frankfort-on-the-Oder in 1819, and was educated for medicine at 



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