174 ^"^ Ottawa Naturalist. [December 



These are the measurements of P. Lordi., Gray : 



Basilar length of Hensel (which is measured from the anterior 

 margin of the foramen magnum to the posterior run of the 

 alveolus of the middle incisor) 18.7 ; occipito-nasal length, 26.7 ; 

 greatest mastoid breadth, 13.6: length of interparietal, 4.7; num- 

 ber of specimens averaged, 5. 



Perognathus Lordi, Gray, was originally described as the 

 Northwest Pocket Mouse in '""Proceedings of the Zoological So- 

 ciety of London for 1868," p. 202, and subsequently noticed by 

 Rhoads in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phil, for 1893, p. 405. 



Specimens of this species are recorded from the following 

 British Columbia localities as follows : — Ashcroft, 14 ; Kamloops, 

 6: Okanagan, 12; Vernon, 2. — H.M.A. 



OBITUARY. 



Charles Jules Edme Brongniart. — It is with profound regret 

 that we have to chronicle the death of this eminent palaentologist 

 at the early age of 40. His special studies lay in the direction of 

 fossil insects, and he described a very large number of new or 

 hitherto imperfectly known species from the carboniferous rocks 

 of France. His first paper on fossil insects was written at the 

 early age of fifteen. His researches and knowledge at that youth- 

 ful period led him to recognise an insect in a specimen of fossil 

 fruit which his grandfather, the distinguished pal^eobotanist, was 

 examining at the time, and published the same with his own 

 illustrations in an entomological magazine. This paper was most 

 favourably commented upon, and ever since his energies have 

 been directed in working out the " Faune fossile entomologique 

 de France." Charles Brongniart's principal work was published in 

 1893 in two large quarto volumes with atlasses of plates. He 

 had in his laboratory at Paris, where I had the pleasure of meeting 

 him in 1885, a very large collection of the fossil insects from the 

 open air coal mines of Commentry which have been rendered 

 famous by these very remains of insect life. Some of the fossil 

 dragon flies and springtails of the Carboniferous system were of 

 enormous size, compared with their modern representatives. 

 Shortly before his death Monsieur Brongniart kindly exarnined an 

 interesting wing of a iieurorthopferid from the Riversdale forma- 

 tion of Colchester County, and he pronounced the form closely 

 allied to Miamia Bronsoni, a carboniferous insect. 



Wilhelm Heinrich Waagen. — This celebrated Palaeontolo- 

 gist died March 24th, 1900. His principal work is found in the 

 series of volumes constituting the "Pala^ontologica Indica," which 



