1893. OBITUARY. 153 



Eyed Crustacea, one of his very few zoological works beyond the limits 

 of the Insecta. At this time the zoological world was convulsed with 

 the controversy which followed the publication of the Origin of Species. 

 In the year that Westwood was appointed to his chair, the British 

 Association met at Oxford, and the famous debate between Professor 

 Huxley and Bishop Wilberforce took place, Westwood, like most 

 systematic naturalists of his day, was strongly opposed to the new 

 views ; he attacked the Darwinian theory in a few papers and letters, 

 but prolonged controversy seemed distasteful to him. He went on 

 steadily with his systematic work, and, while he continued to the end 

 firm in his convictions, he saw ere his death a biological school 

 established at Oxford whose teachers owe their inspiration to the 

 work of Darwin. He lived, also, to see Oxford theologians welcome 

 evolution as a valuable contribution to religious thought. 



The collection under his charge at Oxford, second only to that 

 of the National Museum — -and in some groups superior — now occu- 

 pied his attention, and in 1874 the new and rare insects of the Hope 

 Museum were described and figured in the magnificent work known 

 as the Thesaurus Ento>?iologicus Oxoniensis. In the same year he issued 

 a second edition of the Butterflies of Great Britain, in which the plates, 

 as well as the text, were from his own hand. In the last few years 

 of his life he returned to the study of the Orthoptera, and published, 

 in 1889, his final great work, the Revisio Insectornm Familia Mantidarum. 



Besides the books enumerated, numberless papers on entomo- 

 logical subjects by Westwood have appeared in scientific journals 

 and transactions during the last sixty-five years. His contributions 

 to the science of insect-life and structure were confined to no special 

 group ; the literature of every order has been enriched by his 

 researches. Nor did he confine his labours to the purely scientific 

 aspect of entomology ; in many articles contributed to the Gardener s 

 Chronicle he elucidated the history of the insect enemies of the culti- 

 vator of the soil. At the present time, when extreme specialisation 

 threatens to become more and more the habit of systematic naturalists, 

 it is well to remember that Westwood has shown that it is possible 

 to do a vast amount of thoroughly good work without unduly narrow- 

 ing the range of study. To his admirable personal qualities, all who 

 had the pleasure of his acquaintance bear hearty witness. 



G, H, C. 



JOHN STRONG NEWBERRY, M,D, 

 Born December 22, 1822, Died December 7, 1892. 



A PIONEER and honoured leader in North American Geology 

 has just passed away in the person of Professor Newberry, of 

 New York. Born seventy years ago at New Windsor, Connecticut, 

 and removed in early childhood to the then newly-founded Cuyahoga 

 Falls City, in Ohio, he was educated for the medical profession. 



