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H.M. Treasury. In selecting his contributors — tbe selection 

 being virtually in his hands — Sir John Murray was careful to gain 

 the services ol: certain of those alreadv distinguislied for their 

 knowledge of the various groups of animals which were offered 

 to them for their study. But this very necessary part of his duty 

 did not prevent Sir John from generously helping many younger 

 men by including them in the list which contained some of the 

 greatest names in Europe (such as Haeckel, Kolliker, Agassiz, 

 iM'Intosh, F. E. Scluilze, Giinther, &c.). He was particularly kind 

 in this matter to his own countrymen, though he also secured 

 the services of some naturalists from abroad of the then young 

 generation. It was unquestionably due to Murray's energv of 

 character and justly earned and general popularity that enabled 

 the completion of this monumental work, which has never been 

 equalled in the mass of accumulated and novel information by 

 any subsequent exploring voyage. This must, of course, be re- 

 garded as Murray's chief life-work on the official side, and it is 

 gratifying to reflect that he received many testimonies to its 

 importance by the numerous honours which were subsequently 

 conferred upon him. 



Born at Coburg, Ontario, on the 3rd March, 1841, he died in 

 conseijuence of a motor-car accident near Edinburgh on the 

 (5th ^larch, 1914. He was elected a Fellow of this Society 

 the loth jS^ovember, 18S3. [Fiia>'k: E. Beddard.] 



Thomas Hawkes Eussell. who died at Edgbaston on 31st July, 

 1913, was horn on 30th March, 1851, the eldest son of the late 

 Dr. James Russell. Educated at the Birmingham and Edgbaston 

 Proprietary School and University College, London, he adoj)ted 

 the profession of the law, and practised as a member of the firm 

 of Lee, Musgrove, & Lee, Solicitors, until 19l)o, when he retired 

 and devoted his leisure to local activities and botanic studies. He 

 was elected Fellow on the ist March, 1906, and in 1908 he 

 published a small octavo volume, ' Mosses and Liverworts : an 

 Introduction to their Study, wirh Hints as to their Cultivation and 

 Preservation,' which was issued by Low & Co., the 10 plates being 

 from the author's own drawings ; a slightly enlarged edition came 

 out in 1910. 



During the last eight years of his life he gave himself energeti- 

 callv to lecturing on botanical subjects in the neighbourhood of 

 his home, his diagrams being enlarged from his coloured drawings 

 of objects under the microscope. 



After cremation his ashes were interred at Witton Cemetery on 

 the oth August last. [B. D. J.] 



Philip Lutley Sclater. — By the death of Philip Lutley Sclater, 

 which took place on June 27th, 1913, the zoological world lost an 

 extraordinarily able leader and the Liunean Society one of its 

 most distinguished Fellows. 



In how far the trend of his life's work was influenced by the 



