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OBITUARIES 



NICOLAS AUGUSTE POMEL 



Born 1821. Died August 1808 



The death of Pomel removes from Algeria a distinguished mineral- 

 ogist and geologist and one who had made for many years a particular 

 and detailed study of the country and its palaeontology. Auguste 

 Pomel commenced his geological career by writing in 1842 several 

 papers on the geology of the Auvergne ; his thirty-fourth paper (1854) 

 was the first written on African matters, since when he has 

 published little short of 100 papers on Northern Africa. Perhaps his 

 best known work is his essay on the classification of the Echinoids in 

 which he founded new genera by the score. The work was regarded 

 with such disapproval that it was deliberately ignored by the Zoo- 

 logical Eecord, which declined to record his swarm of new generic 

 terms ; and it was denounced with much vigour by the late Professor 

 Duncan and Mr Sladen, in a paper for which the title of " Pomelism and 

 ( 'rime " was suggested. His " Catalogue methodique du mammiferes 

 tertiaires," 1853, is a wonderful book, and was undeservedly dis- 

 credited by Paul Gervais and other writers. 



JOSEPH CHAELES HIPPOLYTE CROSSE 



Born 1827. Died 7th August 1898 



We regret to record the death of this distinguished conchologist, 

 which occurred at Vernon (Seine-et-Marne) at the age of 71 years. 

 Mr Crosse was the editor of the Journal de Conchyliologie, a journal 

 founded by Petit de la Saussaye, and continued by Paul Fischer and 

 Bernardi until 1861, when Crosse took the place of Bernardi, and the 

 two raised the Journal to one of first importance. Among Mr 

 Crosse's chief works we may mention the Mollusca of Mexico and 

 Guatemala in the Mission Scientitique au Mexique, and the 

 Mollusca in Grandidier's Madagascar. He worked chiefly on 

 exotic forms and contributed frequently to his own Journal. 



FELIX BEPXAPD 



Born 1863. Died August 1898 



Another zoologist of great promise has been removed at an early age 

 in the person of Felix Bernard, of the Paris Museum. He was best 

 known by the series of papers on the hinge of the bivalved mollusca, 

 which considerably advanced the study of that difficult group, and 

 which have been noticed at length in these pages. He also wrote 

 " Elements de Paleontologie," 1895. 



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