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they all belonged to the Old Red group, and that the Reptiles, 

 generally considered to be Triassic, had appeared in that earlier 

 period. To his energy we owe the grand collection of remains of 

 these Reptiles, some of which were described by the Right Hon. 

 T. H. Huxley, and others, even more remarkable in character, quite 

 recently by Mr. E. T, Newton. One of the new genera has been 

 named Govdonia. Dr. Gordon was mainly instrumental, some sixty 

 years ago, in founding the Elgin Museum and Institution. 



Until within a fortnight of his death, Dr. Gordon was in vigorous 

 health for a man of his years. He was over six feet in height, and 

 consequently a man of commanding presence ; while his enthusiasm 

 in Science was maintained to the last, and those who had the privilege 

 of accompanying him to the Elgin quarries, when he was over ninety 

 years of age, v/ill never forget his wonderful energy, his geniality, 

 and intellectual vivacity. 



THE deaths are also announced of L. Chabry, the well known inves- 

 tigator of experimental teratology; of Henry Rink, author of 

 geographical and ethnological works on Greenland ; of D. Scott 

 MoNCRiEFF, an American ethnologist from Harvard University, who 

 was accidentally drowned while travelling in Siberia ; and of Juan 

 ViLANOVA Y PiERA, the well-knowu geologist of Madrid. 



