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A good field naturalist, especially in the Coleoptera, he passed 

 through a course of practical biology, where his previous acquain- 

 tance with chemical manipulation stood him in good stead. His 

 first important ])apor on GniUotalpa when printed was sent to our 

 late colleague, Prof. tr. J3. Howes, who sent a postcard simply 

 inscribed "Good. Go on. — G. B. H.," which encouraged Sayce 

 to persevere. 



About tlie year 1902 he turned his attention to the Crustacea, 

 and in 190(5 was appointed Demonstrator and Assistant Lecturer 

 ou Bacteriology in the University ; it was shortly after this that 

 his paper on Kootiumja cursor was published in our Transactions 

 (Zool. xi. pt. 1, 1908) ; on the 2nd December, 1909, he was 

 <}lected A.L.S., a distinction greatly valued by him. 



In April 1911, he was appointed the first Director of the 

 J^acteriological Institute of South Australia, but did not live to 

 take up his new position. He died of pneumonia after a few- 

 days' illness, on the 29th April, 1911, and was buried on the 

 1st May following. The day of his death had been fixed for his 

 entrance on his new duties. His widow passed aw ay eight weeks 

 later, on the 24th June, largely due to the shock of her husband's 

 •death. 



A full bibliography will be found in 'The Yictoriau Naturalist' 

 for June 1911, p. 27, appended to a sympathetic notice of Mr. 

 Sayce, from which the foregoing notice has been derived, supple- 

 mented by a letter from Mr. F. Chapman, A.L.S. [B. D. J.] 



Eduakd Strasburger. — The intelligence of the unexpected and 

 sudden death of Eduard Strasburger on the 19th May, 1912, 

 was received on the eve of our last Anniversary Meeting, and 

 saddened the many amongst our Fellows who knew and honoured 

 our distinguished Foreign Member. 



He was born in Warsaw, on 1st February, 1844, and received 

 his first botanical training at the University of Bonn, under 

 Hermann Schacht, and where Julius Sachs was then a teacher in 

 the Poppelsdorf Agricultural Academy. Schacht died suddenly 

 in 1864, and Strasburger, thus deprived of his professor, decided 

 to migrate to Jena, to benefit by the lectures of Nathan Prings- 

 heira, whom he had already met at Bonn. In after years he 

 owned the impetus derived from Pringsheim, and his association 

 with Ernst Haeckel. It was due to the latter that, upon the 

 retirement of Pringsheim in 1869, Strasburger was called to the 

 chair, at the age of 25 years. It was in this very year that the 

 first production of Strasburger's pen saw the light: "Die 

 Befruchtung bei den Coniferen," which happened to offend 

 Hofmeister, because the author sought to prove that the " cor- 

 puscula " do not corresponds to the embryo-sacs of Angiosperins, 

 but are archegonia. 



Three years later he issued his " Die Coniferen und die 



