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and other periodicals. He had collected an extensive museum, 

 chiefly osteological, and particularly valuable for its skeletons of 

 Cetacea and the crania of the northern races of man. His GTreenland 

 crania were particularly interesting. His simple but yet polished 

 manners, his kindness and obliging disposition, and the readiness 

 with which he imparted his views and extensive knowledge to 

 all scientific men who visited Copenhagen, or came in contact 

 with him in his numerous foreign tours, are too well known to be 

 here remarked upon. Whilst his zeal in the pursuit of science 

 may be judged of from the circumstance that not many years ago, 

 and when he was no longer a young man, hearing of the stranding 

 of a particular species of whale on the northern coast of Spain, he 

 at once undertook the long and expensive journey from Copen- 

 hagen to inspect, and, if possible, to secure the specimen for his 

 museum, where it may now be seen. His name was added to our 

 list of Foreign Members only last year, and he died on the 22nd of 

 February 1863. 



Alfred Evans, M.D., F.B.G.S.E., was a medical practitioner of 

 considerable repute in the neighbourhood of "Waltbamstow in 

 Essex. His only published paper with which I am acquainted is, 

 " An Essay on the Prevention of Diseases of the Lungs," which 

 appeared in the ' Medical Gazette ' for 1851. He died at his 

 residence, Eastfield Lodge, on the 25th of July 1862, at the early 

 age of forty-nine, having been elected a Fellow of this Society 

 on the 4th of May 1852. 



Dr. John 'Robert Kinalian, Professor of Zoology in the Grovem- 

 ment School of Mines, and one of the Honorary Secretaries of the 

 Natural History Society of Dublin, died February 2nd, 1863, not 

 having quite attained the age of thirty-five years. He was a zealous 

 and able naturalist, devoting his attention specially to the recent 

 Crustacea, and contributed many new species to both the fauna and 

 flora of Ireland. His papers, published in the ' Transactions of the 

 Eoyal Wsh Academy ' and elsewhere, are numerous and important, 

 and amongst them may be cited especially those " On the British 

 species of Crangon and Galathea," " On the Causes of the present 

 Decay of the Dublin Crab and Lobster Fisheries," and his " Review 

 of the Genera of Terrestrial Isofoda^ Palaeontologists are also 

 indebted to him for the description of Oldhamia, and for the 

 discovery and description of the genus Histioderma, and of other 

 organic forms of the earliest date yet known, which his labours 

 procured from the Cambrian Eocks of Bray Head and Howth. 



JoTin Taylor, whose name cannot fail to bring many warm 



