OBITUARY. 



KARL HERMANN KONRAD BURMEISTER. 



Born 1807 — Died May i, 1892. 



BURMEISTER was born at Stralsund, and studied medicine at 

 Greifswald and Halle, obtaining his M.D. at the latter place 

 in 1829. In 1837 he became Professor of Zoology in the University 

 of Halle, but resigned his chair in 1850, having taken an active 

 share in the political struggles of the time. He went to Brazil on a 

 scientific journey, and returned to Germany, where he resumed his 

 professorship at Halle. Again returning to South America in 1856, 

 he travelled about the Argentine provinces, and made a journey 

 across the Andes by a new route. Once more visiting his native 

 country in 1860, he finally resigned his chair at Halle in 1861, and 

 became Director of the Museum of Natural History in Buenos Ayres, 

 which he had established and furthered. In 1870 he was appointed 

 Curator of the University of Cordova. Burmeister was chiefly known 

 from his long series of papers on vertebrata, published in the Anales 

 del Mitseo Publico de Buenos Aires ; his " Systematische Uebersicht der 

 Thiere Brasiliens " (1856); and his "Description Phisique de la 

 RepubHque Argentina" (1876). He died on the ist May, and 

 received the honour of a State funeral, at which the President 

 attended in person. 



Memorial to Professor Duncan. 



A MEMORIAL brass is being prepared in memory of the five members 

 of the staff of Cooper's Hill College, who died last year. Of these the 

 best known was Professor Peter Martin Duncan, and geologists will 

 therefore feel a special interest in this tribute to the memory of one 

 of the most philosophic of palaeontologists of our time. 



