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Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, ■where he resided for about 

 three years working up the results of the Expedition. He was 

 elected Fellow of the Eoyal Society in 1877, and in 1879 was 

 appointed Assistant Eegistrar to the University of London, 

 which post he held until 1881, when, on the death of Prof. 

 Eolleston, he was elected to the Linacre Professorship of Human 

 and Comparative Anatomy at Oxford. The duties of this post 

 were fulfilled with most remarkable devotion and energy for 

 about six years, until ill-health compelled him to retire for a 

 rest, and he was unhappily never able to resume his work. 



In 1884 he was President of the Biological Section of the 

 British Association at its meeting in Montreal, and whilst there 

 the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by the McGill 

 University. He twice served on the Council of the Eo5'al 

 Society. In 1878 he published a small work on ' Oregon, its 

 Climate, Eesources, People, and Productions,' and to the pub- 

 lications of the Eoyal, of the Zoological, and of this Society, as 

 well as to various scientific Journals, he contributed many 

 papers embodying the results of his biological investigations. 



He Avas elected a Fellow of this Society in 1880. He was 

 also a Fellow of the Zoological and Eoyal Geographical Societies, 

 and a Corresponding Member of the Geological Society of 

 California. He died on November 10th, 1891, after a long and 

 trying iUness. 



Eev. Peect 'Watki>'^s Fe^ton Mtles was born at Kilmoe, 

 CO. Cork, on February 27th, 18-19, received his early education 

 at Tipperary Grammar School, and proceeded to Trinity College, 

 Dublin, where he graduated B.A., was ordained deacon in the 

 Church of England in 1870, and priest in 1873. After holding 

 several curacies he settled at Ealing in 1874, and devoted great 

 ( nergy to fostering local natural history, amongst other things 

 helping to establish the Selborne Society, and editing its journal, 

 'Nature Notes,' in conjunction with Mr. James Britton. 



His most important published Avork is the pronouncing 

 dictionary -which was appended to Nicholson's ' Dictionary of 

 Gardening,' and his review of Bennett and Murray's ' Handbook 

 (f Cryptogamic Botany,' which came out in ithe September 

 number of the 'Journal of Botany,' 1889. 



He was elected Fellow, December 15th, 1SS7, and was a 

 constant frequenter of our meetings. He was first seized with a 

 premonitory illness in 1890, from Avhich he partially recovered, 

 but a second attack in June of last year warned his friends that 

 the end was not far off, and on 7th October, 1891, he died, his 

 funeral taking place at Han well. 



Je.vn Lons AEiiAXD de Quateefages was born in 1810, and 

 fc^tudied medicine at Strasburg. He settled as a medical .prac- 

 titioner at Toulouse, and was appointed Professor of Zoology 

 tlicre. In 1855 he was elected to the Chair of Anthropology 



