382 Obituary. 



President in 1894-96, receiving the Wollaston Medal in 1906 ; he 

 was elected F.R.S. in 1873, and received the honorary degree of 

 LL.D. from St. Andrew's in 1878. He was elected to the Fellowship 

 of the Eoyal Microscopical Society in 1880, and occupied its 

 Presidential chair during the years 1902 and 1903. It is interest- 

 ing to note that his first publication was a small pamphlet issued 

 in 1860 on "The Prize Microscopes of the Society of Arts, witli 

 Plain Directions for Working with them." 



From an early date Dr. Woodward began writing semi-popular 

 articles for the " Popular Science Pieview," the " Intellectual 

 Observer," and other journals, thus making known to a wider 

 circle of readers the results of research in palaeontology. 



For many years an actiAe member of the Council of the British 

 Association, he served as President of the Geoloo-ical Section in 

 188/. He was also President of the Geologists' Association 

 1873-1875. 



A. W. Sheppard. 



CHARLES FREDERIC ROUSSELET. 

 1854-1921. 



It is with great regret we have to record the death of Mr. C. F. 

 Rousselet, who for over a quarter of a century was a familiar figure 

 at our meetings. He was born at Friederichsdorf in 1854, and 

 died on October 25, 1921, after a long illness of several years. 



Rousselet came of an old Huguenot family, and his direct 

 ancestor, Esaie Rousselet, left his home at Perriere, near Soissons, 

 after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He and several 

 others, some thirty families in all, founded a French settlement 

 afterwards named Friederich&dorf, from the Landgrave of Hesse- 

 Homburg — Friederich II. Here their descendants have continued 

 to live, speaking French as their mother-tongue, to the present 

 day. Mr. Rousselet came to London in 1873 and was naturalized 

 in 1889. During the years 1881-1902 he was the London repre- 

 sentative for the Bordeaux firm of A. de Luze et fils. 



Even before the publication of Hudson and Gosse's " Rotifera," 

 Rousselet's general interest in this group had given place to serious 

 study, and by unremitting research he soon became the recognized 

 authority on the subject. His contributions to the Journal of 

 this Society, as well as of that of the Quekett Microscopical 

 Club, embodying the results of his original observations, were as 

 valuable as they were numerous, and resulted in considerable 

 additions to the number of known species. His work was very 

 methodical and exact, and his descriptions w^ere always accompanied 



