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OBITUARIES 



WILLIAM AECHEE 



Born May 6, 1830. Died AuGust 14, 1897. 



William Archer, who died in Dublin on August 14th last, was born 

 on May 6th, 1830. He devoted himself for many years to the investi- 

 gation of the lower plants and animals, especially the Desmids and 

 certain groups of the Ehizopods and Infusoria. From 187b' till 1880, 

 he acted on the editorial staff of the Quarterly Journal of Micro- 

 scopical Science, in which most of his important work was published. 

 Many of his valuable papers, however, were issued by the Dublin 

 Natural History Society, now extinct, whose proceedings are, unfor- 

 tunately, very scarce. He was an original member, and for many years 

 secretary of the Dublin Microscopical Club. His eminence as a 

 microscopist led to election into the Eoyal Society in 1875. In 1876 

 he became librarian to the Eoyal Dublin Society, and when the bulk 

 of the collection was transferred to the Government to form the 

 National Library of Ireland, Archer became head of the new institu- 

 tion. His later years were busily occupied in the duties of this 

 office, and he laboured unremittingly in the transfer of the books 

 to new quarters, and their arrangement and cataloguing on the 

 Dewey system, of which he was an enthusiastic advocate. Two 

 years ago he was compelled to retire, having reached the age of 

 sixty-five. His familiar figure will be sadly missed among Dublin 

 men of science, whose respect for his wide learning was accompanied 

 by hearty admiration for his personal worth. G. H. C. 



The following deaths are also announced : — Karl Vogel and Wilhelm Liebenon, 

 eminent German cartographers ; Karl Wilhelm Petzold, the physical and astro- 

 nomical geographer ; J. H. Trumbull, philologist and member of the National Academy 

 of Sciences, U.S.A.; Ernest Hutu, professor in Frankfort and well known as a popu- 

 lariser of science ; Emil Schmidt, a teacher of zoology in Berlin ; Edgar Maclure, 

 professor in the Oregon State University, recently killed by a fall on Mount Rainier, 

 which he was exploring with a party ; at Port Antonio, Jamaica, Dr J. E. Humphrey, 

 associate professor of botany in Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore ; C. S. Roy, pro- 

 fessor of pathology in the University of Cambridge, aged 43 ; August Mojsisovics, 

 professor of zoology and comparative anatomy in the Universit}' of Graz ; Dr Holm- 

 gren, professor of physiology in the University of Upsala, aged 66 ; and Dr Welcker, 

 professor of anatomy in the University of Halle. 



