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Faculties of Arts and Medicine in the University of Dublin, and 

 entered the Army Medical Service in 1868. He retired, owing to ill- 

 health, in 1888. Taking a deep interest in comparative anatomy, he 

 devoted himself to the study of the small mammals belonging to the 

 Orders Chiroptera, Insectivora, and Rodentia, and contributed articles 

 on these groups to the last edition of the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." 

 Besides numerous small papers, he published a " Monograph of the 

 Asiatic Chiroptera " in 1876, and the British Museum Catalogue of 

 Bats in 1878. He also left unfinished " A Monograph of the Insec- 

 tivora, Systematic and Anatomical," of which the first two parts 

 appeared in 1882-83. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 

 of London in 1883. 



LUDWIG RUTIMEYER. 

 Born 1825. Died November 27, 1895. 



DR. RuTiMEYER, the eminent Professor of Zoology in the 

 University of Basle, who had been in failing health for some 

 years, died on November 27 at the age of 70. He was born at 

 Biglen, in the Emmenthal, and received a liberal medical education, 

 having pursued his studies in Berne, Leyden, Paris, and London, 

 Pure science early had charms for him, and in 1848 he published his 

 first paper on the geology of the mountains between the Lake of Thun 

 and his native valley. After election to his Professorship in 1855, he 

 devoted his original researches chiefly to fossil vertebrate animals and 

 the human skull, and began with a study of the bones found in the pile- 

 dwellings of Switzerland. In 1861 there appeared his well-known 

 memoir on the remains of the pig from these dwellings, and this was 

 quickly followed by others. In 1864 he published the fine volume of 

 " Crania Helvetica " in conjunction with his colleague Professor His. 

 In 1867 appeared his important work on cattle, which reviewed the 

 osteology of recent forms with special reference to all the known 

 fossils. He was thus led to study the series of Siwalik fossils pre- 

 sented by Falconer and Cautley to the British Museum, and another 

 memoir followed in two parts in 1877-78. His memoirs on the osteo- 

 logy and dentition of the Cervidae (1881-83) are also of great import- 

 ance to palaeontologists. In 1867, and 1873, Riitimeyer published a 

 now classic memoir on the Upper Jurassic Chelonia of Soleure, Swit- 

 zerland ; and his latest monograph of importance, issued by the Swiss 

 Palaeontographical Society in 1891, dealt with early Tertiary mam- 

 malian remains from Egerkingen, Switzerland, especially in compari- 

 son with corresponding fossils discovered in America, in deposits 

 supposed to be of the same age. Up to the last, the old Professor's 

 interest in the collections with which he had been so long associated 

 was actively maintained, and his decease was painfully sudden and 

 unexpected. 



