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OBITUARY. 



SAMUKTv GORDON, M.D. 



We regret to record the death of one of the oldest of Dublin naturalists, 

 Dr. Samuel Gordon, who passed awa}' on April 29th, at the ripe age of 

 82 years. A hard-working medical man, associated with several of the 

 Dublin hospitals, and at one time President of the College of Physicians, 

 Dr. Gordon was much interested in natural history. He was a member 

 of the now extinct Dublin Natural History Society, and served for many 

 years on the Council of the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland, the 

 Presidency of which he held from 1893 until the end of last year. 



JOHN SHEARSON HVI.AND, PH.D., F.O.S. 



INIany Dublin naturalists who recall the presence of Dr. Hyland on the 

 staff of the Irish Geological Survey from 1888 until 1891, during which 

 time he carried out some valuable petrological work, will be grieved to 

 learn that he succumbed to an attack of fever at P^lmina, West Africa, 

 on April 19th, at the early age of 32. A native of Liverpool, Hyland 

 studied at University College in that city, and later at Leipzig, under the 

 famous Zirkel, taking his doctor's degree in 1888 with a thesis on the 

 rocks of Kilimanjaro. After his too brief service in Dublin, he turned 

 to mine-prospecting, and the last seven years of his life were passed in 

 North America and tropical Africa, investigating the geology and mineral 

 resources of new regions. 



C. HERBERT HURST, PH.D. 



The death of Dr. C. Herbert Hurst on May loth, 1898, at the early age of 

 42, cannot but be regarded as sad and untimely. More than once about 

 Christmas time he expressed concern at the loss of blood consequent on 

 the removal of a number of teeth. Blood-poisoning followed, and when 

 influenza seized him, more than one who knew his weak state of health 

 felt there was cause for alarm, which proved too well justified by the 

 fatal result. 



Dr. Hurst was born in Lancashire and received his early edu- 

 cation, including a liberal amount of science, in the Manchester 

 Grammar School. Later he went as a vScience Teacher in Training to 

 the Royal College of Science, London, where he worked under Frankland 

 in chemistry, and later under Huxley in biology. He never forgot his 

 obligations to these two men. On leaving London he was persuaded to 

 take a post as Science Master in a boarding school in Yorkshire, where 

 work was hard and discipline severe. Dr. Hurst modelled his lectures 



