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and from the sale of his works is to 

 be used for the completion of the 

 ' Descriptive Sociology.' " I declare 

 that my trustees shall apply as nearly 

 as possible the whole of the income 

 derived from all investments for the 

 time being representing my residuary 

 estate and also the income derived by 

 my estate from the publication and 

 sale of the works mentioned in this 

 my will (including the autobiography 

 and biography) in resuming and con- 

 tinuing during such period as may be 

 needed for fulfilling my express wishes, 

 but not exceeding the lifetime of all 

 the descendants of Queen Victoria who 

 shall be living at my decease and of 

 the survivors and survivor of them, 

 and for twenty-one years after the 

 death of such survivor, the publication 

 of the existing parts of my ' Descriptive 

 Sociology ' and the compilation and 

 publication of fresh parts thereof 

 upon the plan followed in the parts 

 already published. And I expressly 

 empower my trustees to delegate to 

 some competent person the duty of 

 selecting and appointing (subject to 

 their approval) competent compilers, 

 deciding (subject to their approval) 

 upon successive works to be under- 

 taken by them, overseeing the ex- 

 ecution of such works, superintend- 

 ing their approval) upon the re- 

 muneration of such compilers, and 

 rendering periodical reports and ac- 

 counts to my trustees, and out of such 

 annual income my trustees shall ap- 

 propriate and pay to the person so 

 delegated £150 per annum, or such 

 larger sum as, having regard to the 

 work done, they may think reasonable 

 and proper. And I wish that the first 

 person so appointed shall be Henry 

 Tedder, secretary and librarian to the 

 Athenaeum Club." 



The ultimate disposition of the es- 

 tate is as follows : " When the series 

 of works, and the reorganized work, 

 specified above shall have been com- 

 pletely executed and published, my 

 trustees shall thereupon sell by auction 

 the copyrights, stereotype plates and 



stock of the whole body of them, and 

 shall sell in like manner the copy- 

 rights, stereotype plates and stock of 

 such of my works, if any, as continue 

 to be published by them, and shall sell 

 in the usual way the shares, stocks, 

 funds, securities and other property 

 held by them as trustees, and shall 

 give the sum realized in equal parts to 

 the Geological Society, the Geograph- 

 ical Society, the Linnean Society, the 

 Anthropological Institute, the Zoolog- 

 ical Society, the Entomological Society, 

 the Astronomical Society, the Mathe- 

 matical Society, the Physical Society, 

 the Chemical Society, the Royal Insti- 

 tution and the British Association, or 

 such of them as shall then be in exist- 

 ence, and shall accept the gift upon 

 the condition in each case that the 

 sum received shall, within five years 

 from the date of payment, be spent by 

 the governing body for the purchase or 

 enlargement of premises, or for books 

 or apparatus, or collections, or for 

 furniture or repairs, or for equipment, 

 or for travelers and donations of in- 

 struments of research; but in no way 

 or degree for purposes of endowment; 

 and, after having previously made an 

 authorized statement of the purposes 

 for which the donation is to be used, 

 the receipt or acknowledgment by the 

 treasurer or secretary of the society to 

 or for the benefit of which the payment 

 is made to be in each case an absolute 

 discharge to my trustees, and a cer- 

 tificate in writing signed by all my 

 trustees stating that they have carried 

 out the provisions of the trust to the 

 best of their judgment and ability 

 shall be a complete termination of 

 their responsibilities and shall be con- 

 clusive and binding on all persons and 

 institutions interested under this my 

 will." 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS. 

 We regret to record the death of M. 

 F. A. Fouqug, the well-known French 

 geologist and mineralogist; of Dr. Karl 

 Schumann, titular professor of botany 

 at Berlin and curator of the Royal 

 Botanical Museum; of Henri Perrotin, 



