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OBITUARIES 



GEOEGE GREY 



Born 1812. Died 19th September 1898 



SlB Geobge Grey was born at Lisbon, educated at Sandhurst, entered 

 the army in 1829, and became captain in 1855. Retiring from the 

 profession, he conducted two expeditions of discovery in the north- 

 west and west of Australia from 1837 to 1839, the results of his 

 travels appearing in 1841. His collections were worked out by J. E. 

 (hay, J. Gould, and Adam White. In 1841 he was appointed 

 Governor of South Australia, and in 1845 of New Zealand, to which 

 colony the rest of his life was devoted, with the exception of a period 

 of Governorship of Cape Colony. Sir George Grey's valuable Colonial 

 services are too well known to need repetition here, but a few words 

 are necessary to emphasize his services to zoology, which were of no 

 ordinary kind. A deep friendship with Richard Owen led him to seize 

 every available opportunity for collecting the fauna of the lands he 

 visited, and his own inclination led him towards the music, folk lore, 

 and dialects of the native inhabitants. In a letter to Owen in 1849 

 he deplores the burning of his New Zealand home and the loss of a 

 complete skeleton of moa, three moa skulls, besides numerous other 

 bones, the skeleton of what was probably a Notornis, and bones of a 

 quadruped. But with his characteristic courage, he adds, "I will 

 endeavour in the course of this summer to collect again." The 

 Daily Chronicle for October 18 has, we are glad to see, started a 

 national memorial to this great public servant, 



LOUIS LAURENT GABRIEL DE MORTILLET 



Born 29th August 1821. Died September 1898 



It is noticeable that in nearly every field of intellectual research some 

 tew enthusiastic observers and thinkers are alone the first tillers of 

 the new soil, often amidst troubles and disappointments. So in 

 Anthropology, an important division of Archaeological study, Mr G. 

 de Mortillet, following up the investigations of Mr Boucher de Perthes, 

 was one of the forward workers in this field of research. By his 

 co-operation in compiling and editing the " Materiaux pour l'Histoire 

 positive et philosophiipie (primitive et naturelle) de l'Homme," 

 together with Trutat, Cartailhac, and others, he greatly aided the ad- 

 vancement of his favourite science, accumulating facts, and forming and 

 distributing useful generalisations as to the probable succession of the 

 various cave-dwellers in Central France and elsewhere. Taking as 

 the basis of his calculations the results of the examination of the caves 

 of Dordogne and neighbouring districts, and the comparison of the 

 animal remains, and the typical stone and bone implements, he sug- 



