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Dr. Charles Henry Gattt was born in the year 1835, went to 

 Trinity College, at Cambridge University, graduated B.A. in 1859 

 and M.A. in 1862. He devoted much attention to natural science, 

 especially zoology, and was elected Fellow of our Society on 

 the 15th March, 1860 ; two years later he joined the G-eological 

 Society. In the summer of 1892 he gave an intimation to the 

 University of St. Andrew's of a gift of ^1000, which he doubled 

 during the autumn of the same year, for a marine laboratory ; in 

 1895 he voluntarily added another sum of £500 for fitting up 

 tanks, engine, and other furniture, which he afterwards supple- 

 mented by a gift of a second sum of =£500. Our late Fellow thus 

 gave in all £3000 to the laboratory now known as the Gatty 

 Marine Laboratory, Avhich was formal)}^ opened by Lord Reay on 

 the 3rd October, 1896. 



Professor M'^Intosh says : " Previously we had the St. Andrew's 

 Marine Laboratory at the harbour, and Dr. Gatty and I would 

 have wished to erect the new one on the site, so fnll of old asso- 

 ciations, but the wooden building was on a common. We there- 

 fore had to go to University ground 500 yards or so south. The 

 Government severed its slender financial connections for the 

 support of the old laboratory under the Fishery Board for Scot- 

 land, and the first British laboratory, though it \^"as only from 

 =£70 to ,£90 a year, as soon as we ' flitted ' to the new building, 

 and this after 12.| years' work for the Board." 



In recognition of this munificent gift the University of St. 

 Andrew's conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL.D. 



In his own immediate neighbourhood at East Grin stead he built 

 and fitted up a hospital for the sick. Living all his life unmarried, 

 he became towards the close of it somewhat of a recluse and 

 eccentric in his habits. He died at his Sussex residence, Felbridge 

 Place, East Grinstead, in December 1903, aged 68. 



Carl Gegenbatjr was born in 1826, August 21, and died last 

 year on the 14th of June. He became a Professor early in life, 

 holding the Chair of Anatomy for a long period at Jena and for a 

 much longer period at Heidelberg. From first to last he was a 

 man of science pure and simple. His autobiographical sketch, 

 ' Erlebtes und Erstrebtes,' by its epigrammatic title promises 

 something different from this, but apparently what he did with 

 his life and what his life did with him were factors of existence 

 in uncommonly little antagonism. His choice of a career was 

 imperilled indeed for a moment by the unprescient worldly wisdom 

 of his father. Sixty years ago it may have been difficult to fore- 

 cast his chances of making either a great reputation or a modest 

 livelihood out of natural science. Fortunately, however, the 

 parental opposition was diverted, so that the young Carl's educa- 

 tion was allo\^ed to follow lines consistent with his tastes and 

 ambition. He speedily justified his own selection of the field in 

 which his energies were to be displayed. It was no narrow one. 

 Among his treatises we find investigations on Pteropoda and 



