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leaf. Mr. Scott proved himself an active and diligent official, 

 especially in promoting planting of suitable trees in fore?>t8 in 

 the comparatively denuded parts of the island, and the amount 

 of available timber is greatly increased by his exertions. On 

 leaving for a furlough in this country, he was presented with an 

 address from his staff at Pamplemousses, and on his reaching 

 home in September last he presented the picture of health. 

 Shortly alterwards he made a tour in the West Highlands, but 

 on ascending Ben Nevis, too late in the autumn, he took a severe 

 cold, which, complicated by an attack; of fever, produced pneu- 

 monia, under which he rapidly sank, and passed away at Stirling 

 on 3rd October, 1897. He was elected a Fellow of this Society 

 so recently as lOth December, 1895. 



Johannes Ja.pettis Smith Steenstrup was born at Aalborg, in 

 the district of Thy, North Jutland, on March 8, 1813. His father 

 was a parson and educated his son at the Cathedral school, and 

 afterwards at the University of Copenhagen. A desire for the 

 study of nature appears early to have revealed itself, and it was 

 at first cultivated under the fostering care of an uncle, a gifted 

 parson and pupil of Melchior. Schouw, the elder Reinhardt, 

 Drejer, and Liebmann were among Steenstrup's early friends, 

 and it is said that of these Eeinliardt, by his lectures, made an 

 ineffaceable impression on his mind. Gifted as a student alike of 

 all branches of Natural History, Steenstrup, early in his career, 

 entered also the historical field, publishing essays upon ' Ottar's 

 relation to King Alfred on his travels in Northern Seas, and 

 on the pa^isage of King Harold through the Limfjord ' ; and his 

 archaeological leaning, always strong, reasserted itself after his 

 retirement from active professorial work in the eighties, in the 

 production of important monographs at the advanced age of 

 more than 70 years. In 1839 he was sent by the Government 

 to Iceland in company with Schytte, the chemist, and during the 

 exploration of that countiy he did memorable work upon the 

 fossil plants and volcanic formations. "While on the journey he 

 made some observations upon tlie metamorphosis of the Crabs 

 which lie at the foundation of our knowledge of Crustacean 

 development, with which, subject his name will be ever historically 

 associated. And in the fuller working out of the materials 

 obtained on this noteworthy expedition, the names of Eatlike 

 and Oswald Heer stand conspicuous. 



In 1841, shortly after his return from Iceland, Steenstrup was 

 appointed lecturer in Botany and Geologyin the Seeland Academy 

 of Soroe, and it was then that he contributed his famous essays 

 on ' The Alternation of Generations ' and ' Hermaphroditism in 

 Nature,' by which he attained a world-wide reputation, the 

 former being now a classic, and even today the subject of frequent 

 citation and criticism. Beyond these epoch-marking essays, 

 Steenstrup is best known as the master of Cephalopod mor- 

 phology ; his system, collections, and writings rank foremost 



