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in 1883, an hon. LL.D. of St. Andrews in 1897, and in 1890 

 had the somewhat unusual honour of being elected F.K.S. at the 

 first asking. 



If ]Xornian was not a born i\aturalist, lie was something very- 

 like it. We are told that in his early years he studied botany 

 under the fostering care of his elder biother. In his school days 

 at Winchester he was an entomologist. At Chi'ist Ciiurch, 

 Oxford, before taking his B.A. degree in 1852, he was alreaily 

 busy Avith the MoUusca of Oxfordshire. He was ordained in 

 185(1 and tlienceforward may be said to have lived a double life 

 in a truly remarkable manner. For, with scientific energy and 

 results by themselves conspicuous, lie combined devotion to duty 

 in the ecclesiastical sphere. Without entering into details, a few 

 dates may be given as indicating what was thonght of him in his 

 own profession. He was curate of Houghton-le-8pring from 

 1864 to 1866; Hon. Canon of Durham in 1885; Eector of 

 Eurnmoor from 1866 to 1895, and then, under pressure, liector 

 of the important living of Houghton-le-8pring and Rural Dean 

 from 1895 to 1898. These last appointments he resigned under 

 medical advice which could not be neglected. 



By Herdman's adniirable record of Norman's scientific career 

 down to 1906, the main part of this stirring biography has been 

 alreadv told, though the President's concluding remark was well 

 justified in looking forward to " services which we hope may be 

 continued for years to come." Accordingly we find JN'orman 

 describing new species of Amphipoda in 1908, and in that year 

 delivering a presidential address on "The Celtic Province: its 

 extent and its marine fauna"; while in the following year he 

 deals with the Crustacea of the Chamiel Islands, and joins 

 G. 8. Brady in an account of the Crustacea of Northumberland 

 and Durham. In 1911 he published in the ' Transactions ' of this 

 Society notices of some remarkable Harpactid Copepoda from the 

 Clyde, and in 1913 the completion, as far as possible, of the 

 description of his Synagoija mira — a sti'ange cirripede from an 

 Actinozoan host which Lo- Bianco had submitted to him when he 

 was working at the famous Naples Aquarium in 1887 — a species 

 which had not since been found though diligently sought for. 

 Norman was in fact a prolific author, although in a letter, 

 Nov. 21, 1877, he says, '' I love obseiviug and hate writing." 

 He only meant writing for the press. In jirivate he was an 

 excellent correspondent, as A. O. Walker, F.L.S., and many 

 another of his colleagues in natural history adventure can testify. 



On May 30, 1877, Norman writes: "I have been in Edinburgh 

 for a fortnight staying with Sir Wyville Thomson, and going 

 through for him the ' Challenger ' Crustacea. These I separated 

 out into Orders so that they are ready to be distributed to those 

 who may take them in hand. It is a very extensive collection 

 and will take an immense amount of working through, and I really 

 do not know where men are to be found who can do it." It is 



