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and Ethnology ai the Jardin des Plantes, Paris. He was ad- 

 mitted to the Academy o£ Sciences in 1852, and was an honorary 

 member of many learned societies. Amongst his numerous 

 works perhaps the most celebrated are his ' Crania Ethnica ' and 

 ' Etudes des Eaces Humaines.' He was also the author of a 

 laro-e number of important memoirs on various branches oi 

 zooloo-y, especially ou Annelides, Echinoderms, and Molluscs, 

 upwards of I-IO papers being cited in the Eoyal Society's 

 catalogue. 



He was elected a Eoreign Member of this Society in 1875. 

 He died January 21st, 1892. 



Lord Aethur John Edward Eussell, the second son of Major- 

 General Lord Greorge William Eussell, was born in 1821. He 

 was educated abroad, and did not enter any English University. 

 As a young man he travelled extensively in Europe and the East, 

 and even visited America, a comparatively uncommon undertaking 

 in those days. Destined for public life, his career as a politician 

 was commenced under the guidance of his uncle, Lord John 

 Eussell, the well-known statesman, to whom he acted in the 

 capacity of private secretary from 1849 to 1854. In 1857 he 

 entered Parliament as the representative of the borough of 

 Woodstock, a seat which he retained until his retirement in 1885. 



As the natural outcome of bis early training, foreign affairs 

 specially attracted Lord Arthur Eussell's attention ; but he also 

 interested himself more or less actively in questions affecting the 

 relations of the State to religion and education. His knowledge 

 of the inner life of the various social and political circles on the 

 Continent, as well as in England, was extensive, and made him 

 " a man worth knowing," apart from his own genial kindness of 

 disposition and sound judgment. 



Lord Arthur Eussell's relation to Biological Science was that 

 of a patron and admirer rather than a contributor. His fondness 

 for natural history associated him with this Society, into Avhich 

 lie was elected as a Eellow in 1875, and he served on the Council 

 from 188S to 1890. He was also a Eellow of the Zoological 

 Society ; and he held the office of Eoreign Secretary to the Eoyal 

 Greographical Society from 1875 up to the time of his death, 

 Avhich took place on April 4th, 1892. 



Seee2s^o Watson, who was elected Eoreign Member of this 

 Society so recently as May 1st, 1890, died at Cambridge, Massa- 

 chusetts, on March gth, 1892, from the effects of an attack of 

 influenza, which had caused a dilatation of the heart. 



He was born at East Windsor Hill, Connecticut, on December 

 1st, 1826, and after graduating at Tale in 1847, he became a 

 school-teacher in the Eastern States, and then a tutor in Iowa 

 University, at the same time studying medicine, continuing those 

 special studies from 1853 to 1855 with his brother at Quincy, 

 Illinois, with w^hom he practised for two years following the 

 last-mentioned date. Erom 185G to April 1861 he was Secretary 



