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revi^incr his method of trefitmeu^, with the result that tho 

 seventh edition of his ' Manual of Zoology ' completely retrieved 

 his reputation as a writer of Text-books. 



By temperament Nicholson was a lovable man. Keen, humour- 

 ous,*sympathetie, lie knew no selfish desires, and his trust in his 

 fellows found ample expression in his life's w-ork. The Stromato- 

 porids, the Graptolites, and other problematical organisms buried 

 in the rocks, together with the Fossil Corals, will always be 

 associated with Kicholson's name ; and in the great work upon 

 them which he leaves as his scientific heritage, we find him asso- 

 ciated with Etheridge, Foord, Harkness, Lapworth, Marr, Morris, 

 and Murie, sterling workers all. Nor must we omit mention of 

 the 3rd edition of his 'Manual of Palaeontology,' w^ritten in 

 conjunction with Mr. E. Lydekker, the Invertebrate volume of 

 which, from Nicholson's own pen, is the most complete general 

 treatise on the subject in the English language. As a worker of 

 the ' old school ' he did well in his own way, and his record will 

 outlive that of many of ihe naturalists of the younger generation, 

 to whom his methods were antiquated. 



As a lecturer fluei.t and expressive to fascination, as a worker 

 in the field persistent and far-sighted, as a wiiter prolific and 

 entertaining, Nicholson has left us a good example. His kind- 

 ness and human symj^athy had no bounds, and to those who 

 knew him personally he will be remembered as a genial and 

 honourable man, desperately earnest in his love of work and 

 devotion to his chosen field, in sympathy with the strong, 

 tolerant to the ^^eak. In later years his leaning towards Geology 

 and Palccontology became more and more predominant, Zoology 

 pure and simple falling from his grasp, the University-Assistant 

 in that subject having been, during the later portion of his career, 

 granted the status of a Lecturer. He was a Fellow of the Geo- 

 logical Society, whose Lyell Fund and Medal he r^ ceived, and of 

 the Eoyal Society. He was elected a Fellow of the Liuneaa 

 Society, 6th April, 1876. 



EuGE>rE Feedehick ArorsTTTS Obach, as he wrote his name for 

 our List of Fellows, was born at Stuttgart in April 1852, of S^isa 

 parents, his father being an artist. He was educated at the 

 Eeal and Polyteknik Schools of his native town, in 1873 con- 

 tinuing his studies at Leipzig, where he obtained his doctor's 

 degree.- In 1875 he entered the house of Siemens & Halske at 

 Charlottenberg, near Berlin, and the following year came to this 

 country to take up a post with Siemens Brothers at their Tele- 

 graph Cable Works at Woolwich. In 1879 he went with an 

 expedition in the ss. ' Faraday ' to lay a trans-Atlantic cable ; on 

 his return he devoted himself to the study of the chemistry of 

 gutta-perciia and india-rubber, together with the plants which 

 produce those substances. He delivered a series of Cantor 

 Lectures on this subject before the Society of Arts in 1898, in 

 which year, on 2nd June, he was elected into our Society. He 

 died at Graz in Styria, on 27th Dtcember, 1898, after "a long 



