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is confined to the vertebrate muscular system of man and 

 lower animals. The combination of Dr. Hau2;hton's know- 

 ledge of anatomy, with his skill in mathematics, which is 

 not often imported into the dissecting room, here stood him 

 in good stead, and enabled him to pursue the subject as could 

 not otherwise have been done. The result, however, is that 

 this book appeals only to a small class of readers, those who 

 inhabit the somewhat confined space in which the areas of 

 anatomy and of mathematics overlap. Dr. Haughton's 

 "Lectures on Physical Geograph}^" 1880, printed in the 

 Dublin University Press Series, exhibit the same combination 

 of varied knowledge. His books on elementary science 

 include a " Manual of Geology," the '* Three Realms of 

 Nature," &c. ; some were written in conjunction with his 

 friend. Professor Galbraith ; most of these w^ere very popular 

 as manuals, and had a large circulation. But Dr. Haughton's 

 great scientific activity found vent chiefly in writing import- 

 ant papers in the publications of many scientific societies, 

 and in various scientific periodicals. We cannot give a list 

 of these here. In the Royal Society's Catalogue of Scientific 

 Papers Avill be found an arra}' of no less than 206 papers by 

 Dr. Haughton, besides a few wTitten b}^ him in conjunction 

 with others. These are on a wonderful variet}^ of subjects, 

 displa3dng an almost encyclopaedic knowledge. His distin- 

 guished merits were widely recognized not only in Ireland 

 but elsewhere. Thus he was elected Fellow of the Royal 

 Society of London in 1858 (in the Transactions and Proceedings 

 of which Society he appears as a contributor of papers on 

 various important subjects). The University of Oxford con- 

 ferred on him, honoris causa, the degree of D.C.L., and the 

 Universities of Cambridge and of Edinburgh that of LL-D., 

 and the University of Bologna that of M.D., he having already 

 that degree in his own University of Dublin. He was also 

 honorary member of various foreign scientific societies. While 

 these distinctions were bestowed upon him hojioris causa, he was 

 appointed Secretary of the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland, 

 with its Zoological Gardens, for a quite different reason, viz., 

 because the Council of the Society saw that he was the person 

 best fitted for the post, which was, at that time, a very arduous 

 one. He fully justified their selection. By the energy, along 

 with the practical capacity, which, for just twenty years, he 



