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To the Transactions of the Medical and Chirurgical Society, 

 the Transactions of the Pathological Society, and Guy's Hospital 

 ' Reports' he contributed a variety of papers, the outcome more 

 or less of his professional studies. In the ' Journal ' of this 

 Society we find papers by hiin '' On the Moultiug of Somarus 

 vulgaris and Oarcinns 7nie)ias" (Liun. Soc. Journ., Zool. iv. pp. BO- 

 SS) and " On the Cranial Characters of the Snake-Eat " {ojJ. cit. 

 vi. pp. 66-73). Nor did he confine his attention to zoology, for 

 we find (Linn. Soc. Journ., Bot. i. pp. 14^0-1 J:2) a communication 

 " On the Vitality of Seeds after prolonged subme^^iou in the Sea,'' 

 and a few years later a paper " On the Development of Polliui- 

 ferous Ovules iu two species oi Passiflora" (Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 sxiv. pp. Ii3-lo0, pi. 2i). 



To the ' Philosophical Transactions ' of the Eoyal Society (of 

 which learned body he was elected a Fellow in 1863) he com- 

 municated a paper on the " Structure and Grrowth of the Tooth of 

 Echinus'' (Phil. Trans. 1S61, pp. 387-407), and amongst occasional 

 contributions to periodical literature we find an account of the 

 habits of Rhinolophus ferrum-equinum as observed in Dorset- 

 shire (' Zoologist,' 1865, p. 9835), a description of Lerneonema 

 Bairdii (Ann. JSTat. Hist. ser. II. vi. pp. 85-87, pi. 7), aud a note 

 on the fertility inter se of hybrids of different species of the 

 genus Gallus (Xat. Hist. Eev. 1863, pp. 276-279). 



Mr. Salter was an Honorary Fellow of K-ing's College, London, 

 a Fellow of the Eoyal Society (as above mentioned) and of the 

 Zoological Society, and an active member of the Eay Society. 

 He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society 21st June, 

 1853. 



In Oct. 1874 he married Frances, fourth daughter of Edward 

 Haycock, Esq., of the Priory, Shrewsbury, and, having retired 

 from his profession, went to reside at Basingfield, near Basing- 

 stoke, Hants, where he had built himself a house from his own 

 plans, and where he devoted much of his time to horticulture. 

 Here, on the 28th Feb., 1897, he died in the 71st year of his 

 age, his wife having predeceased him by only a few months. 



[J. E. H.] 



Sir John Bates Thfrstox, K.C.M.G-., was the son of John 

 Noel Thurston, and was born at Bath on 3rd January, 1836. He 

 early took to the sea, and, after several years of life not unaccom- 

 panied by shipwreck and disaster, was taken by the Eev. Mr. 

 Calvert, a missionary, to Fiji, with which island his subsequent 

 career became identified. He was in 1866 appoiuted British 

 Consul for Fiji and Tonga, and three years later filled the office 

 of Acting Consul. After a period of trouble, during which aa 

 ineffectual attempt was made on the part of a chief to cede 

 these islands to the British, they came prominently forward 

 duriug the American War as centres of cotton-supply. lu 

 1872 the settlers were so numerous and powerful that au 

 attempt was made to form a constitutional government with a 



