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ill which lie .spent his business UFe. In 19l)7 he was created 

 Baron Peckover, a title whit-ii lapsed on the death ot" the first 

 holder, as three daughters but no son formed his family ; his wife, 

 the only daughter ot J. Sharpies, of llitcliiii, whom he married in 

 1858, died in 18fi2. From 18'.)3 to 190(3 he was J.ord Lieutenant 

 oF Cambridgeshire, ttie first instance of a member of the Society 

 of Friends filling such a post. lie delighted in collecting ancient 

 mainiscripts, early bibles, and ma|)s, amassing a splenditl library,, 

 and in early lite he was devoted to chess, cricket, and tennis.. 

 He died at J3ank House, Wisbech, on the 2Lst October, 1919. 



[B. D. J.] 



Professor MAGXirs (tUSTaf Eetzius, whose death at the age of 77 

 occurred ar Stockholui on 21st July, lin9, was one of the most 

 distinguished zoologists Sweden has produced. Born at Stock- 

 holm 17th October, 1812, and descended from a grandfather whO' 

 was Professor oF Natural History at Lund, and a father w ho was. 

 Professor of Anatomy at Stockholm, he doubtless developed his 

 remarkable scientific gifts in a congenial environment. His work 

 ranged over a widn field, and soon won him recognition as an. 

 authoritv on such iliverse subjects as histology and anthropologv. 

 In conjunction with Prof. Axel Key, lie wrote in 1875 a 

 standard work on the cerebro-spinal membranes and spaces, and 

 hiter brought out a series of monographs on the internal ear, the 

 microscopic structure of the nervous system and sense organs of 

 various animals, the structure of spermatozoa and nuclei — all illus- 

 trated with a magnificence which has never been surpassed. 

 I:iiportant work was also published by him on the brain of Man 

 and of anthropoids. Eetzius did mucli to forward thn study of 

 anthropology in Sweden, and his ' Atlas of ancient Swedish skulls' 

 (1900) and ' xAiithropology of Sweden,' written along with 

 Prof. Karl Fiirst (1902), are contributions of permanent value. 

 Some of his conclusions were given in his Huxley Lecture 

 delivered in this country. 



He was elected a Foreign Member of the Linnean Society on 

 the 6th lAJay, 1909, and of the Eoyal Society in 1907; he also- 

 received the honorary degree of ScD. at Cambridge, and at many 

 Continental universities a similar degree in the faculties of medi- 

 cine aiul philosophy. [E. S. (>.] 



SiMOX ScirwENDENER, who was elected a Foreign Memher of the 

 Linnean Society in 1884, was horn at Buchs, in the Canton of 

 St. Gallen, Switzerland, on lOth February, 1829. His fatheiMvas 

 a farmer, but the son early evinced an inclination for scientific 

 rather than for agriciilturiil jiursuits. On lea\ing school he 

 qualified as a teacher in the elementary school of his native town. 

 A University education seems to have been, at first, bevond his 

 means, but a bequest from his grandfather made it eventually 

 possible. He began his University career at Geneva, studying 

 botany under Alphonse de Candolle, but it A\as soon interrupted 



