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favourably starting independent phylogenies may have come to 

 an end at a very early period through the domineering capacity 

 of some masterful race. On these questions the open mind is 

 still as ever desirable. Indefatigable, minute investigation of 

 facts, by men like Koelliker, can never be dispensed with. 



[T. R. E. S.] 



Sir EoBEET Lloyd Patterson, Knight Bachelor, Deputy 

 Lieutenant, Justice of the Peace, and Pellow of the Societ}"" 

 since 17th April, 1874, was the son of Robert Patterson, P.E.S., 

 the zoologist, and was born at Belfast on 28th December, 1836. 

 He went to school at the Eoyal Academical Institution, Belfast, 

 and afterwards spent some time at Stuttgart. Eeturning to 

 Belfast, he joined in business with Eichardson Brothers, in the 

 staple trade of flax, yarn, and hnen ; in 1858 he set up on his 

 own account, and a prosperous career resulted till his retii-ement 

 in 1886. His work in connection with the Chamber of Commerce 

 was from 186-1 onvt-ard ; he was twice its President, in 1880 and 

 1895, and was Honorary Treasurer at the time of his death ; 

 he was knighted in August 1902. 



His recreations were in natural history ; his favourite cruising 

 ground Avas Belfast Lough, and he was constantly scanning its 

 fauna : in 1880 he published a volume on ' The Birds, Pishes, 

 and Cetacea of Belfast Lough,' which ran into a second edition. 

 He was a constant contributor to the ' Ii-ish Naturalist,' ' The 

 Pield,'" and Nature Notes published weekly in the ' Northern 

 Whig.' He had a fine collection of Irish birds, and gave many 

 specimens to the Patterson Museum, established at the People's 

 Palace. An active supporter of the Belfast Natural History and 

 Philosophical Society, he twice filled the chair, in 1881 and 1894. 

 The 'Northern Whig' summarised his life thus in a leading 

 article : — " The death of Sir Eobert Lloyd Patterson, although 

 not unexpected by his relatives and by those who knew his recent 

 condition of health, will come Avith something of a shock to the 

 public, long accustomed to his active and vigorous presence in 

 their midst. Sir Eobert represented a type now less often seen — 

 the shrewd and active business man, who also finds leisure 

 thoroughly to cultivate some branch of science or literature and to 

 make a name for himself in connection with it." [B. D. J.] 



William Phillips was born at Presteign in Eadnorshire in 

 May 1822, migrated to Shrewsbuiy at the age of ten, and there 

 breathed his last, on 22nd October, 1905, in his 84th year. 

 It was not till about 1861 that he took up the study of Botany, 

 at first in a general sense, afterwards concentrating his attention 

 on Fungi. He was a neighbour of the Eev. W. A. Leighton, 

 author of the well-known ' Flora of Shrewsbury,' and ' The 

 Lichen-flora of Great Britain,' 1871, etc. Mr. Phillips drew up 

 a list of flowering plants and ferns of the neighbourhood, for 



