OBITUARY. 



AMONG the deaths which we regret to record this month is that 

 of Dr. Robert Anstruther Goodsir. Although at first 

 trained as a banker, he afterwards followed the medical profession, in 

 which one of his brothers so conspicuously succeeded. Dr. R. A. 

 Goodsir went as surgeon to Penny's ship " Advice " on a search for 

 Franklin, in whose expedition had sailed his brother Harry. His 

 account of the voyage was a successful book of its time. In 1850 he 

 again accompanied a search expedition for Sir John Franklin. He 

 was a great traveller, but returned to Edinburgh about 1885, and 

 settled down quietly. He died, at the age of 71, in the middle of 

 January. 



Dr. Henri Clermond Lombard, of Geneva, the famous clima- 

 tologist, died at Geneva at the end of January, aged 92. He was 

 born in that city in March, 1803. He studied at Edinburgh 

 University and completed his education in Paris under Andral and 

 Louis, graduating in 1827. His thesis was on Tubercles. In 1856 

 he published his " Climats de Montagne." His great work, " Traite 

 de Climatologie," appeared between 1877 and 1880. In 1882 he 

 presided over the International Congress of Hygiene at Geneva, and 

 retained up to the time of his death full mental vigour. 



Dr. Lewis R. Gibbes died on November 21 at Charleston. 

 He was born in that city August 14, 1810. Educated for the medical 

 profession, he speedily resigned it for that of mathematics, but 

 resumed it again in 1836, when on a visit to Paris. His chief work 

 in natural history was a series of papers on American Crustacea ; but 

 he was also well-known to astronomers, chemists, and botanists. 



Dr. Hugo Christoph died at St. Petersburg on November 5. 

 He worked for many years on the Lepidoptera of Persia, Caucasia, 

 Armenia, and the Amur Region. Dr. C. v. Felder, the entomologist, 

 of Vienna, died on November 30, aged 80 years. Mr. E. H. Acton, 

 M.A., Lecturer in Natural Science at St. John's College, Cambridge, 

 died suddenly on February 15. The death of the Marquis of Saporta 

 is announced. 



With very deep regret we learn, as we go to press, of the death 

 of Mr. J. Whitaker Hulke, President of the Royal College of 

 Surgeons, which took place on February 19, from pneumonia 

 following influenza. 



