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the Malacological Society in 1896 and again in 1897 ; president of 

 the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies in 1900 ; president 

 of the section of zoology of the British Association in ] 902. He 

 helped to found the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and 

 Ireland in 1887. He was elected F.Z.S. and also F.L.S. in 1885 ; 

 r.E.S. in ]897 ; honoured with the degree of LL.D. by the 

 University of St. Andrews in 1898 ; with that of D.Sc. by the 

 Victorian University in 1902. He was also a Corresponding 

 Member of the Eoyal Society of Victoria and of the New York 

 Academy of Sciences ; Hon. Member of the Nottingham Natural 

 History Society, of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, and of 

 the Essex Natural History Field Club. 



Among the many pupils who passed through Howes's Laboratory 

 and Lecture-room, and who have since won or are steadily on the 

 way towards winning scientific reputation, may be mentioned : — 



Mr. E. H. Burne, present Secretary of the Malacological Society. 

 Mr. G. W. Butler, B.A., F.Z.S., studying the eggs of fishes. 

 Dr. J. E. Duerden, Professor of Zoology at Ehodes University, 



Grahamstown, S. Africa. 

 Miss Alice Embleton, B.Sc, F.L.S. , E. S. Mackinuon Student 



for 1903. 

 Mr. Alfred Vaughan Jennings, F.L.S., F.G.S. (see Proc. Linn. 



Soc. 1903). 

 Mr. A. Coppen Jones, F.L.S., a bacteriologist. 

 Mr. W. L. Stevenson-Loat, specialist in fi.shery research in 



North Africa. 

 Mr. J. E. S. Moore, F.L.S., F.Z.S., whose researches in Lake 



Tanganyika are well known. 

 Dr. W. G. Eidewood, D.Sc, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.G.S., Lecturer on 



Biology, St. Mary's Hospital Medical School. 

 Dr. H. H. Swinnerton, D.Sc, F.Z.S., Marshall Scholar, the 



Eoyal College of Science, now of University College, 



Nottingham. 

 Mr. W. T. Harold Wager, F.E.S., F.L.S., Lecturer on Biology, 



the Yorkshire College. 

 Prof. G. S. West, Professor of Natural History at the Eoyal 



Agricultural College, Cirencester. 

 Mr. Martin F. Woodward, Demonstrator in Biology at the 



Eoyal College of Science, and Secretary of the Malaco- 

 logical Society of London (see Geol. Mag. dec. 4, vol. viii. 



p. 480, 1901). 



Much might easily be written in appreciative comment on the 

 character, the writings, and the influence of the lost friend who 

 cherished the Linnean Society with so much earnestness of willing 

 service. But the thoroughness which he threw into all his 

 scientific undertakings has elicited so many tributes of honour to 

 his memory, that it becomes expedient to avoid repetition even in 

 eulogium. The simple outline of his career and work that has 

 here been given should prove to the most critical that he was a 



