LIXXEAN SOCIETY OF LOXDOX. 6^ 



was made memorable by his brilliant address •' On the Present 

 State of our Knowledge of Geographical Zoology." He twice 

 served on the Council of the Eoyal Society. 



Among his recreations, perhaps, we may reckon Ins work as a 

 Justice of the Peace ; and he was also a keen huntsman, following 

 tlie hounds up to the day of his death, which was due to a carriage 

 accident. 



The science of Zoology owes not a little, perhaps, to the fact 

 that in those early days its territories had to be explored without 

 the aid of guides. This served to concentrate attention on faunistic 

 Z')ology, and to lay the foundations for the study of Geographical 

 Distribution, which has so important a bearing on the history of 

 the zoology of past ages. Sclater, as we have already remarked, 

 was a pioneer in this field, and if this had been his only achievement 

 it would have been a great one. [W. P. Pycraft.] 



Mr. Mautix Joh>- Sutto:v was born in the year 1850, the eldest 

 son cf Martin Hope Sutton, of Whitley, Berks. He became the 

 senior partner in the firm of Sutton & Sons, the Eoyal Seed 

 Establishment, Reading, and his activities were directed almost 

 entirely to the advancement of horticulture and agriculture. The 

 dignities conferred upon him are proof of this : he was Chevalier 

 of the Legion of Honour and of the Ordre du Merite Agricole ; 

 Knight of Grace of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of 

 Jerusalem, Member of the jN^ational Agricultural Examination 

 Board, Governor and Member of the Council of the Royal Agri- 

 cultural Society. He also took his share in the conduct of the 

 Bath and West of England and Southern Counties Societies. Of 

 local honours conferred, he possessed the Honorary Freedom of 

 Reading, was J. P. of that town and of Oxfordshire, and County 

 Councillor of Berks. He was twice married, and leaves a widow 

 and two sons and a daughter. 



Ho was elected Fellow, 3rd June, 1886; he died unexpectedly 

 at the Piccadilly Hotel, London, on the 14:th December, 1913, 

 under an aufesthetic for a minor operation. [B. D. J.] 



Alfked Russel Wallace, O.M., D.GL., F.R.S.— The death of 

 Alfred Russel Wallace on November 7, 1913, broke the last link 

 with the band of illustrious Englishmen who made Evolution the 

 watchword of the latter half of the nineteenth century — Darwin, 

 Hooker, Huxley, Spencer, and Wallace himself. 



The details of Wallace's long, happy, and varied life are so well 

 known that it would be inappropriate to repeat them on the 

 present occasion. I prefer to speak of his special association 

 with the Linnean — to him, there is reason to believe, the dearest 

 of all scientific societies. He was proposed in 1871, the Form of 

 Recommendation, first read on November 2, being signed by 

 Bentham, Stainton, Hooker, Newton, Flower, Gray, and six 

 other Fellows. The election took place on January 18, 1872. 

 ]iut Wallace's connexion with the Society was much earlier than 

 this ; for, in addition to the epoch-making papers in 1858, he had 



