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Soa-anomones and other Invertebrates, — these and endless other 

 topics aro touched ou, in the spirit of the pioneer, by Dr. Kru- 

 keubcrg. Tlie Qehl is an enormous one, and has been air dy 

 troddtMi by a lew stragglers from among the ranks of contem- 

 porary English naturalists. But there is no shadow of a doubt 

 that hero lies the future of experimental physiology, and not 

 only of that brancli of biology, but indirectly of morphology 

 also. For it is only wlicn we have an adequate physiology of 

 lower as well as higher organisms that we can hope to deal with 

 the problems of morphological evolution. It will bo sufficient 

 justification for Dr. Krukenberg's vigorous attempts, if he shall 

 have succeeded in forcing the attention of biologists to the phy- 

 siology of the lower animals, which urgently and irresistibly 

 demands the services of experimental investigators. 



Obittjaeies. 



William Addison was one of tlie senior Fellows, having been 

 elected in January 1831. A Surgeon by profession, he entered 

 upon practice in 1825 ; and for many years resided at Brighton, 

 where he died. In addition to liis connexion with our Society, 

 he was F.K/.S. ; but his chief published works are wholly medical. 



Alfred Henet Baefoed was born in Birmingham on the 14th 

 August, 1832, receiving his early education at a school in the Old 

 Square, kept by the Eev. E. Bristow, and subsequently at King 

 Edward the Sixth Grammar School, of which Prince Lee, who 

 became Bishop of Manchester, was then Head Master. At the 

 early age of fourteen he left to take a private tutorship in the 

 family of Mr. Gataire, of Coton Hall, near Bridgnorth, remain- 

 ing there four years. Thence he went to help one of his old 

 masters, the Ilev. A. K. Thompson, Head Master of the Dudley 

 Grammar School : from there to Dr. Batt, of Cornwall Terrace, 

 Regent's Park. Whilst here, he matriculated at London Univer- 

 sity in 1852, in 1854 obtaining the degi'ee of B.A. In 1858 he 

 purchased the school of Dr. Batt, which he carried on until four 

 months before his death. On December 1, 1859, he was elected 

 Fellow of this Society ; and in 1874 he was called to the Bar ; 

 but his liealth giving way, he abandoned the idea of practising. 

 He died suddenly on 15th August last, one day after his forty- 

 ninth birthday. Although his failing health w^as the cause of his 

 giving up school-teaching, his friends had no suspicion of the end 

 at hand. 



Alexander Cakte was born about 1820, graduated as B.A. in 

 the University of Dublin in 1834, and proceeded to tlie degrees 

 of M.A. and M.B. in 1840. About the same time he obtained 

 the appointment of Curator of the Museum of the Eoyal College 



