LINNEA>' SOCIETY OF LONDON. 3 1 



At the present time, when so mucli has occurred to cause the 

 severance of old ties oF friendship between men of different 

 nations, it is pleasant to recall the faith that Hubrecht bad in 

 the possibility of a universal brotherliood through science. 



Hubreciit was frequently in England — a well-known figure and 

 welcome guest at many scientific meetings, whether of the British 

 Association, the Zoology Congress, or other gatherings of men 

 and women of science. He had received lionorary degrees of 

 Doctor of Science from the universities of Cambridge, Dublin, 

 Glasgow, and St. Andrews ; also of Giessen, and of Princeton, 

 U.S.A. He w as elected Foreign Member of the Linuean Society 

 in 1905. Hubrecht loved controversy ; and, in addition to his 

 zoological writings, wrote occasionally on divers subjects, such 

 as " More Daylight Saving " (he was an ardent believer and a 

 practiser of early rising), the "Pro-contra of Middle Europe Time," 

 "Bacon or Shakespeare?'" But those who knew him, at any 

 rate later in years, knew his whole heart was in his mammalian 

 embryology, and to this went his entire energy. 



Hnbrecht's death has deprived fellow workers in many lands of 

 a friend for whom they had the highest admiration and sincerest 

 affection, and embryological science of the most brilliant and 

 inspiring exponent of our time. [Ric. Asshetox,] 



Akthur Eoope HurxT, M.A. (Cantab.), belonged to an old Devon- 

 shire family residing for generations in or near Dartmouth. He 

 himself was born in 1843 at Oporto, where his father was living 

 as a partner in a firm of wine importers. In 1851 his parents 

 left hurriedly in an English man-of-war to escape a threatened 

 revolution. 



The family settled in Torquay in 1852, and our late Fellow 

 began his English education under the Eev. Townsend "Warner, 

 amongst whose pupils were the present Lord Eayleigh and Field 

 Marshal Lord Grenfell. 



A certain delicacy of health prevented any strenuous work 

 towards a profession, but the boy enjoyed his life in open-air 

 pursuits, such as marine physics, zoology and geology. 



At the age of eighteen he went up to Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge, and after taking his degree in 1864 he studied law and was 

 called to the Bar, but never practised. In ] 874 he left London 

 for good, and settled in Torquay, occasionally varying his life bj^ 

 visiting his estate at Foxworthy, Moretonhampstead. His means 

 permitted him to piu'sue his liking for various lines of investi- 

 gation, from cave-hunting to yachting, geologizing, and attending 

 meetings of the local Torquay Natural History Society, and 

 in general playing the part of a public-spirited inhabitaTit. 

 He also belonged to the British Association, the Devonshire 

 Association, the Geological Society, and was elected a Fellow of 

 onr own Society, 20th November, 1884. He died at his house in 

 Torquay on the 19th December, 1914, leaving a widow, one son 

 (a barrister), and a married daughter. [B. D. J.] 



