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1908. He was elected a Fellow of the Eoyal Society in 1857 aud 

 served ou the Council from 1876-77, while his eminent services 

 to science were recognised by the award of the Society's Eoyal 

 Medal. He took a prominent part in the foundation of the 

 Sheffield University, to which he left £6500 as an endowment for 

 a Professoi-ship of Geology. He also left ,£15,000 to the Eoyal 

 Society for the promotion of scientific research in connection with 

 the University of Sheffield, and £1000 to the Geological Societv. 



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AVhilst his researches into the structure of metals and rocks 

 led to his scientific eminence, he displayed almost a boyish eager- 

 ness in depicting the marine organisms brought up by dredging 

 from his yacht ' Glimpse.' On more than one occasion he has 

 exhibited some of his preparations at our meetings, and he was 

 ever seeking for improved methods of mounting and displaying 

 his captures. The last paper he furnished to the Linnean Society 

 was printed in our Journal (Zoology), xxix. (1906) pp. 434-439, 

 entitled " Xotes on some species of Nereis in the District of the 

 Thames Estuaiy," which was read in the absence of the author on 

 1st March, 1906. His last printed paper occupies seventy pages 

 in the ' Quarterly Journal ' of the Geological Society, vol. 64, 

 n. 254 (1908) pp. 171-232, pis. 14-18, and in the discussion it 

 was pointed out that it suggested new methods of investigation. 



[B.D.J.] 



By the death of Professor Chakles Steavabt, LL.D., F.E.S., 

 M.E.C.S., the Linnean Society has lost one of its most distin- 

 guished Fellows and one who has been largely identified with the 

 work of the Society'. Boi'n at Plymouth in 1840 he was, like his 

 father and grandfather, framed for the medical profession, obtain- 

 ing the diploma of M.E.C.S, in 1S62. His scientific instincts, 

 however, were too strong to allow of his remaining for long a 

 medical practitioner, and in 1866 he was fortunate enough to 

 obtain an appointment as Curator of the St. Thomas's Hospital 

 Museum, where he also lectured on Comparative Anatomy and 

 Physiology. The great work of his life, Iiowever, was done in 

 connection with the Museum of the Eoyal College of Surgeons, 

 where he succeeded Sir W. H. Flower as Conservator, on the 

 appointment of the latter to the Directorship of the Xatiu-;il 

 History Departments of the British Museum in 1S84. Although 

 his time was chiefly occupied with the arrangement of the Museum 

 and with the anatomical investigations and preparations by which 

 the Museum has so greatly benefitted. Professor Stewart neverthe- 

 less found opportunities of making his influence felt as a teacher. 

 As Hiaiterian Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology 

 he lectured at the College, and he was also Fullerian Professor of 

 Physiology at the Eoyal Institution for a period of four years. 



Although he published little, his kno\vledge of the minute 

 anatomy of both vertebrate and invertebrate animals was extra- 



