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which was dedicated to him on his seventieth birthday affords eloquent testimony 

 of the respect and gratitude of those who had the privilege of sitting at his feet. 



The wall-diagrams by Leuckart and Nitsche are almost as familiar to the 

 student as Leuckart's memoirs and his bibliographical Berichte (1848-1879) are 

 to the investigator. 



As generaliser, specialist, and teacher, Rudolf Leuckart was certainly one 

 of the great zoologists of the century. 



See Butschli, 0., Zool. Centralbl., vi. 1899, pp. 264-266. 



Carus, J. V., Zur Erinnerung an Rudolf Leuckart, Ber. Ges. Wiss. Leipzig, 1898, pp. 



51-62. 

 Blanchard, R., Notices biographiques. I., R. Leuckart. Avec portrait. Arch. Para- 



sitol. 1898, pp. 185-190. 

 Grobbkn, C, Rudolf Leuckart. Ein Nachruf. Verh. Zool. -hot. Ges. Wien. 1898,5 pp. 

 Jacobi, A., Rudolf Leuckart. Mit Portrat. Centralbl. Balctcriol. xxiii. 1898, pp. 1073- 



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The death is reported by telegram of Mr. John Whitehead, the well-known 

 collector and explorer, who succumbed to an attack of pestilential fever while 

 on a scientific mission in the island of Hainan. He left England in the autumn 

 of last year to explore the less known islands of the Philippine group. On his 

 arrival at Manilla, he found the condition of things too disturbed to permit of 

 his going into the interior, and so made his way to Hainan, the highlands of 

 which have never been traversed by European. Mr. Whitehead has during the 

 last three years been engaged in the exploration of the Philippines, and by his 

 work he added greatly to our knowledge of the zoology of the group. In his 

 last expedition to the island of Luzon, Mr. Whitehead made an unexpected 

 discovery in the shape of a new and peculiar mammal fauna inhabiting the 

 Luzon highlands, and believed to be isolated on a small plateau on the top of 

 Mont Data, in the centre of northern Luzon at an altitude of from 7000 to 

 8000 feet. As a collector Mr. Whitehead was highly esteemed, and his death 

 at the early age of 43 will be especially felt in the Natural History Museum at 

 South Kensington, the zoological collections in which have been enriched through 

 his industry and skill. 



The deaths are also announced of Prof. L. A. Charpentier of the Faculty 

 of Medicine, Paris ; on April 20, at Montauban, Prof. Charles Friedel (b. 

 1832), one of the most distinguished of French chemists, and one of the 

 initiators of the French Association for the Advancement of Science ; Dr. 

 Theodor von Hessling, formerly professor of anatomy in the University of 

 Munich, at the age of 83 years ; on May 6, aged 73, the Rev. T. Neville 

 Hutchinson, who was science master at Rugby from 1866-83, and did much 

 to introduce the study of science in the English public schools ; on May 17, the 

 Rev. Jonathan Short, vicar of Hoghton, near Preston, in his 74th year. 

 He was well known as a geologist and antiquarian throughout the North of 

 England, and has taken an active part in collecting and preserving the historical 

 records of Lancashire. 



