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A bibliography ot" his publications will be foiiud in the Bericlite 

 del- deiitsehen botaiiisclieii Gesellschaft, xxxvi. (1918), pp. (110)- 

 (IIH). [B. D. J.] 



The well-known Director of the Paris Museum d'Histoire 

 Xaturelle, Professor Jean Octaae Edmond Perkier, Meuibre de 

 l"Academie des Sciences et de rAcadeinie de Medecine, was born 

 at Tulle. in 1844. His death on July 31st, 19i^l, deprived the 

 French zoological world of a man of great administrative ability 

 and social distinction, who took an active part in the promotion 

 and organisation of scientific work. For many years he directed 

 a marine laboratory in the little island of Tatihou, near Cherbourg. 

 His own researches dealt, chiefly with the Invertebrata. In 1874 

 appeared his remarkable memoir on the structure of E;irth worms, 

 and later manv works on the anatomy and classification of 

 Echinoderms. Among his many publicitions, always distinguished 

 for lucidity and elegance of style, may be mentioned the volumes 

 on 'Les Colonies Aniiuales,' ' La pliilosophie zoologique avant 

 Darwin,' 1884, 'Lamarck et le ti-ansformisme,' 1803, 'La terre 

 avant I'Histoire,' 1920. 



' La Tachygenese ou acceleration embryologique,' written in 

 collaboration uith Ch. Gravier, is an important contribution to 

 comparative embryology. Since 1892, Perrier published at 

 intervals several volumes of a comprehensive ' Traite de Zoologie,' 

 of which he left in MS. tiie final part. 



He was elected a Foreign Member of the Liunean Society on 

 the 4th May, 1916. [E. S. G.] 



EiDEWooD, Dr. Walter George; see p. 70. 



A hard-working, enthusiastic naturalist is lost to the Society by 

 the death of the liev. Edward Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock, which 

 took place at Grayingham Rectory on the 3rd February, 1922. 



He was the eldest son of the well-known antiquary, Ed^Nard 

 Peacock, F.S.A., of Bottesford Manor, where he was born on the 

 2;h'd July, 1858; educated first at Edinburgli, he cime up 

 to St. John's College, Cambridge, and then at Bishop Hatfield's 

 Hall, Durham, where in 1880 he took the degree of L.TIi. After 

 tilling several cia-acies, he became Vicar of Cadiiey in 1890, 

 remaining there till 1920, when he received the appointment as 

 Kector of St. Radeguiids, Gr;iyingham. 



He was always an indefatigable note-taker and recorder, 

 especially as regards his native county. He was one of the 

 founders of the Lincolnshire INafuralists' Union in 1893, and fox" 

 ten years wa'^ its organising Secretary, and President in 1905-6;, 

 during its whole existence he was the mainspring of its activities. 

 In 1909 he issued a 'Ciieck-List of Lincolnshire Plants.' Phanero- 

 gamic botany was his ardent study, and for years he had been 

 engaged on a flora of his own county on ecologic lines ; that MS. 

 has been left to Cambridge. He was elected a Fellow of the 

 Linnean Society on the 5th December, 1895; he is survived by a 

 widow and three sons. [B. D. J.] 



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