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Magazine, and until last year he was a frequent contributor to its 

 pages. He was a member of many learned societies, and was elected 

 F.R.S., a rare honour for a systematic zoologist, in 1867. Courteous 

 to all who applied to him for information, personally or by letter, 

 and always ready to place his great knowledge and extensive collec- 

 tions at the service of students, he leaves an example of the best 

 traditions of English naturalists. 



Among other recent deaths we also have to chronicle those 01 

 Flaxman Spurrell, of Crayford, an ardent botanist, who also began 

 the great collection of Pleistocene Mammalia from the Thames 

 Valley, now long utilised and extended by his son, Mr. F. C. J. 

 Spurrell ; of W. Mattieu Williams, the well-known author of many 

 popular treatises and magazine articles ; of the veteran conchologist, 

 P. M. A. MoRELET ; of two cryptogamic botanists. Baron Felix von 

 Thijmen and C. M. Gottsche, both distinguished for their labours 

 among mosses and hepaticae ; and of Alexander Skofitz, founder 

 and editor of the Austrian Botanische Zeitschrift. 



The death is announced of the veteran American Professor of 

 Geology, Dr. John Strong Newberry. We hope to give some 

 account of his life and work next month. 



The death of Sir Richard Owen, K.C.B., on December 18, 1892, 

 is noticed on p. 17. 



