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alone maintained the efficiency, but largely added to the strength and good 

 work, and the great prosperity which it has attained under his guidance. 



It would be impossible to give here the bare titles of the numerous books 

 and articles from his pen. There are 8g entries in the Royal Society's 

 Catalogue of Scientific Papers ; and it is notable how largely his contributions 

 have added to our knowledge of the \arious species and homology of the 

 Cetaceans. 



The portrait which we reproduce is certainly the best ever taken of him 

 and was photographed by Elliott and Fry, in 1889. It is somewhat reduced 

 in proportion, and forms but part of the original, which was taken in the 

 Central Hall against one of the Cases in the Index Museum, the arrangements 

 and actual details of which had been so largely the work of his own hands. 

 We are greatly indebted to the Editor of the Zoologist for permission to repro- 

 duce this portrait. 



A Memorial Service was held in the Church of St. Luke, Chelsea, (m the 

 5th July, when his friend Dr. Gregory, the Dean of Westminster, officiated : 

 and at the same time the remains were cremated at Woking : being subse- 

 quently buried in the Churchyard of Stone, Bucks. 



With the consent of the Trustees it is proposed to erect a Memorial in 

 the Whale Room of the Museum as a token of regard for the great services he 

 rendered to science. It will consist of a Bust in Marble, and a Brass Tablet, 

 the cost being defrayed by Subscription. 



Personally I shall ever feel grateful for the help and encouragement he 

 extended for so many years, especially in connection with the interesting 

 group of Whales and Dolphins. While I am also indebted to him for many 

 facts and details regarding his family connections with the County of 

 Hertfordshire.! 



Walter Crouch. 



THE LATE LIEUT. -GENERAL PITT-RIVERS, 

 D.C.L., F.R.S. 



By the death of Gen. Pitt-Rivers the Essex Field Club have to deplore 

 not only the loss of a prominent man of science but also of an old and 

 tried friend. The deceased General was for many years an Honorary Member 

 of the Club and he will long be remembered for the interest he took in its 

 work and more especially for his generosity and advice in connection with 

 the excavations of Loughton Camp and Amesbury Banks. 



General Pitt-Rivers will possibly be better known by many as Colonel 

 Lane Fox, under which name he had contributed greatly to anthropological 



I Some facts are worthy of note in regard to some of his family coiniections His f^reat 

 Uncle, Benjamin Flower, (1755-1829), was a noted man, a Political Writer and Editor of the 

 Cambridge Intelligencer. He was prosecuted for libel by the House of Lords in 1799. for 

 which he spent six months in Newgate, and had to pay aline ot £'100. Later on he settled at 

 Harlow, and produced the. Political Register in 1807. Of his twc daughters, Sarah 

 who was married to William Bridger Adams in 1834, was a poetess ; and the authoress of the 

 famous Hymn "Nearer my God to Thee," and " He sendeth sun, He sendeth showers" 

 Her elder sister Eliza was a musical composer, and is still well remembered bv the fine 

 quartette '■ Now pray we for our Country." 



