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cliffs oji the coast near Mentone; But, besides these benefactions 

 of a scientific nature, Sir Thomas's works of charity and benevo- 

 lence were unbounded, and many of them had the great merit of 

 being practically done in secret. The neighbouring ancient town 

 of Ventimiglia was indebted to hiiu for the rescue and re-habili- 

 tation of a valuable and ancient library which for years had lain 

 forgotten in the cellars of a convent ; for schools, avenues of trees, 

 gardens, and for much aid to its hospital. His reputation for 

 generosity and goodness of heart Avas hnown to the inhabitants of 

 every valley in the mountains to the northward of Ventimiglia and 

 Meutone, and to the cry of the poor and distressed among them 

 his ear was ever open. The love and reverence with which he 

 A^as regarded was strikingly shown at his funeral, several thousands 

 of peasants having followed the hearse which conveyed his body to 

 San Kemo to be cremated. He will be terribly missed by the poor 

 for whom he had done so much. 



Sir Thomas was created by the Government of Italy a Com- 

 mendatore of the Orders of SS. Maurizio e Lazzaro and of 

 the Cross of the Crown of Italy, and soon after the succession 

 of Edward YIT. to the throne of England he was made a Knight 

 of the Eoyal Victorian Order. He became a Eellow of this 

 Society, 5th December, 1878. [GEOiiaE King.] 



Eeej)Erick Justen was born at Bonn on the 29th Eebruary, 1832, 

 and there began his acquaintance with the business of a book- 

 seller. On the recommendation of an English visitor to that 

 town, he came to London, and entered the house of Dulau & Co., 

 as German assistant ; in course of time he succeeded to the 

 proprietorship of the business. When, in 1863, Wilham Pamplin, 

 A.L.S., retired from the business which he carried on in succession 

 to Huuneman, who died in 1839, the natural history department 

 of Dulau's receiA'cd an impetus which resulted in Mr. Justen's 

 subsequent and close connection with the heads of the various 

 Departments of the British Museum. By his means the depart- 

 mental and general libraries at the Natural History Museum, 

 Cromwell Eoad, assumed their admirable equipment. A friend of 

 Dr. AVelwitsch, he became one of his executors, and had to 

 encounter a lawsuit brought by the Portuguese Crown to recover 

 the whole of Dr. Welwitsch's Angolan Collections : in the end a 

 compromise was effected ; the Portuguese Government acquired 

 the title to the collections, and gave the second set to the British 

 Museum, with a full copy of the notes by the collector, and the 

 law costs of the whole litigation. 



Mr. Justen w^as elected Eellow, 16th December, 1886, and 

 was a regular attendant at the Meetings ; the splendid copy of 

 L'Heritier's ' Stirpes Novae,' with its cabinet now exhibited in the 

 Library, x^as a gift fi-om our late Eellow, who preferred to place 

 it in a secure position, rather than it should be sold after his 

 death. His son predeceased him, but he leaves a daughter and 

 grand-daughter. He died at his house in Soho Square on the 

 20th November, 1906, aged 74. [B. D. J.] 



