LINNEAK SOCIETY OF LOXDON. 3 I 



His wife and bis youngest son predeceased him, the latter a 

 few weeks before his own death. His election into our Society 

 took place on 7tb March, 1678. A portrait of biui is given in 

 the April number of ' The 3«aturalist,' with au appreciative memoir 

 supplying many additional touches, from the pen of an old friend, 

 whose itlentity is scarcely concealed by the use of the simple 

 initial, E. 



Alfred Vaughax Jexnixgs was born at Hampstead, educated at 

 St. Paul's School, and what is now known as the Royal College of 

 Science, South Kensington, studying under Prof. Huxley, and was 

 proxime accessit for the Porbes Medal. Next he obtained an appoint- 

 ment in the Geological Department of his College, and also as 

 teacher of Biology to the evening classes at the Birkbeck Institution, 

 which owed much to his enthusiastic labours. His health breaking 

 down, he took a voyage to New Zealand, and, on his return, he was- 

 attached for a brief period to the Eoyal College of Science, Dublin,, 

 as Demonstrator of Botany and Geology. Four papers by him 

 appear in our Journal, as noted below. His bodily heakh continued 

 to fail, and at last the end came at Christiania, on 11th January, 

 1902. He was elected Pellow of this Society, 3rd May, 1888. 



An intimate friend writes that he " was an untiring collector 

 in Zoology, Botany, and Geology, and the author of several 

 original papers in each of these three branches of Natural Science. 

 The illusti-atious to his papers, and his drawings in the Whitechapel 

 Museum show considerable artistic ability. In disposition he was- 

 modest and retiring, and very kindly and generous ; no student 

 ever came to him for help and was refused. Had his brilliant 

 brain been supported by proportionate bodily health, he would have 

 achieved much, possibly as nuich as he was always hoping to be 

 able to accomplish. For the last ten years his existence had been 

 but a light for life, and his best friends can only be thankful that 

 the fight is now ended." 



Most of the preceding information has been obtained from a 

 sympathetic notice in the ' New Phytologist ' for January last. 



Mr. Grenville A. J. Cole has been kind enough to transmit a 

 list of our deceased Fellow's papers : — 



1. The Orbitoidal Limestone in North Borneo. Geol. Mag., 

 Dec. 1888. 



2. On a Variety of Alectona Millari (Carter). Journ. Linn. 

 Soc, Zool. xxiii. (1891), pp. 531-539, pi. 13. 



3. Cave-men of Meutone. Natural Science, June 1892. 



•I. On the true nature of " Jlobinsponr/ia 2^'i-)'((sitica," Duncan. 

 Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxv. (189G) pp. 317-319. 



5. On a new genus of Foraminifera of the Family Astrorhizida\ 

 Ih. pp. 320-321, pi. 10. 



6. On the Structure of the Isopod genus Ourozeuldes, Milne- 

 Edwards. Ih. pp. 329-338, pis. 13, U. 



7. On the Structure of the Davos Valley. Quart. Journ. Geol. 

 Soc, Aug. 1898. 



