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Geoege Henet Kingslet, son of the Eev, Charles Kingsley, 

 and brother of the well-known writer of the same name, was 

 born at Barnack, in Northamptonshire, in 1827. He was 

 educated at King's College, and studied medicine first at 

 St. George's Hospital and afterwards in Edinburgh and Paris, 

 graduating M.D. 



He was an accomplished linguist, a keen sportsman, and an 

 accurate observer ; he Avas also an ardent student of Elizabethan 

 literature. He was the author of a delightful sketch of highland 

 stalking gossip, as well as of a volume of travel and adventure 

 in the Southern Seas, conjointly with the Earl of Pembroke, 

 Avhich has passed through a number of editions. He translated 

 a book of German Tales ; and he edited one of the Early English 

 3ianuscripts from the famous collection at Bridgwater House. 



He was elected a Eellow of this Society in 1S56, but has not 

 contributed any paper to our publications. He died suddenly 

 of beart-disease at Cambridge on Eebruary 5th, 1892. 



Joseph Leidt was born at Philadelphia on September 9th, 

 1823. In consequence of the taste he showed for drawing at 

 the age of sixteen, it was his father's intention to educate him 

 as an artist, but owing to the interest the boy took in natural 

 objects, and to his aptitude for dissection and anatomy, it was 

 determined that he should study medicine. With that object in 

 view he entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1S4;2, and 

 graduated M.D. in 1844. After practising for about two years, 

 he decided to abandon that side of his profession, and to devote 

 himself to original research and to teaching. He was appointed 

 Prosector to the Chair of Anatomy in his own University, and 

 ultimately, on the death of Dr. Horner in 1853, was elected 

 Professor of Anatomy, a position he held with the most distin- 

 guished success until his death, a period of nearly fort}^ years. 



The wide range of subjects to which Leidy devoted his attention 

 is highly remarkable, and fully justifies the reputation accorded 

 vo him by his fellow-countrymen as their most distinguished 

 biologist. He was not only a master of the comparative 

 anatomy of recent forms of life, but has been aptly described as 

 the Cuvier of American palaeontology. He was, in addition, a 

 recognized authority upon the Protozoa, as well as upon the 

 Eutozoa, and his knowledge of concholo gy, botany, and mineralogy 

 was profound. 



The list of his various papers and publications reaches the 

 extraordinary number of 553. Amongst such an enormous 

 catalogue of works it is almost impossible to specify the most 

 important, but certainly amongst the chief should be mentioned 

 his 'Elementary Treatise on Human Anatomy' (1861), his 

 ' Contributions to the Extinct Fauna of the Western Territories' 

 (1873), and his ' Ereshwater Ehizopods of North America ' 

 (1879). 



lu iidditicn to his other appointments, Dr. Leidy held the 



