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them occurring, as previously mentioned, on his 80th birthday ; 

 on the 29th of March last he died, and in token of respect, 

 the flags on the University buildings and those belonging to the 

 various " N^ations '"' \^'ere hoisted half-mast high on that Saturday 

 afternoon. [B. D. J.] 



The Eev. JoHif Gteeaed, S.J., who died at Earm Street, on the 

 13th December, 1912, at the age of 72, was a familiar figure at 

 our Meetings, where his attendance was regular until a few 

 months before his death. 



He was a son of Colonel Archibald Gerard, and a brother of 

 the late General Sir Montagu Gerard, K.C.B., and was born 

 in Edinburgh on the 30th May, 1840. Our late Eellow was 

 educated at Stonyhurst, and entered the Jesuit novitiate in 1856, 

 taking his B.A. at London University in 1859, and was ordained 

 in 1873. After teaching at Liverpool, he was transferred to 

 Stonyhurst, and there remaineei till his removal to London in 

 1893. 



At Stonyhurst his influence in teaching zoology and botany 

 was marked, his position as Prefect of Studies giving him the 

 power to carry out his views. A preliminarj' Elora of Stony- 

 hurst came out in the school magazine for 1886, and a second 

 edition appeared in 1891, at Clitheroe, and although anonymous, 

 is known to have been chiefly Mritten by Father Gerard. For 

 some time he was busy in criticising some of Grant Allen's 

 essays, which were referred to by Father Gerard as ' Essays in 

 Un-natural History.' His most important work was a volume 

 in answer to Haeckel entitled ' The Old Eiddle and the Newest 

 Answer,' which has had a large circulation. 



He was elected Fellow on the 3rd of May, 1900. [B. D. J.] 



Hejshy Geoyes, Mhose death took place at Clapham on Novem- 

 ber 2ud, 1912, was born in London on October 15th, 1855. He 

 was educated at the grammar school at Godalming, where the 

 family had removed to in 1863. It was here where, under the 

 guidance of the principal of the school, Mr. P. Churton, he was 

 first imbued with the love of nature and trained in collecting and 

 observing. The early death of his father forced him, when only 

 fourteen, into a practical career. He went back to London and 

 served in a stockbroker's office until he was twenty-four. He 

 was eventually placed on the regular staff of the Queen Anne's 

 Bounty Office, where he rose to the position of a senior clerk. 

 The habit of making excursions for the purpose of collecting and 

 studying animals and plants, acquired so early, persisted and 

 developed more and more after the removal to London. For 

 some time the interest \\as divided between fresh-water mollusca 

 and plants, but in the end botany held the field. In his work, in 

 so far as it concerned this department of science, he was from the 

 beginning so intimately associated with his brother James, that it is 



