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undertake and successfully accomplish. His immense and 

 almost boyish enthusiasm never failed him to the end ; but 

 during the last few years of his life one could not help noticing, 

 with sorrow, that his health was beginning to fail, and that the 

 strain of many years of unremitting labour at high pressure had 

 at last worn him out. Kind-hearted, almost to a fault, his 

 unfailing courtesy, good temper, and readiness to assist all those 

 who sought information and help endeared him to every one 

 both at home and abroad. The cares of life, which in his case 

 were many, and the deceitfulness of riches, which were few, 

 hardly affected his exuberant spirits, and he was always cheery 

 and full of good-natured chaff. His generosity was such that 

 he was always ready to offer pecuniary assistance in any case of 

 trouble that came under his notice, and it was, therefore, not 

 surprising that he was frequently imposed upon." 



Dr. Sharpe's death is a great loss to science, and an almost 

 irreparable one to the British Museum Department of Birds, 

 which has acquired its pre-eminence among the great ornitho- 

 logical collections of the world mainly through his efforts ; while 

 his long series of contributions to the literature of ornithology 

 will be his enduring memorial to the end of time." F. N. 



By the death of Dr. Ludwig Mond, F.R.S., the Society is 

 poorer through the loss not only of a man of wide scientific 

 knowledge and of keen chemical insight, but of one whose 

 wealth, acquired by ability and perseverance, was used in the 

 promotion of far-sighted schemes for the advancement of science. 



Born at Cassel in 1839, Ludwig Mond studied at Marburg 

 under Kolbe, and then at Heidelberg under Bunsen. Turning 

 to technical chemistry after his graduation he worked out a 

 process for the recovery of sulphur from the alkali waste pro- 

 duced in the Le Blanc method of soda manufacture. He came 

 to England to establish this process, which was adopted in many 

 works and with considerable success in South Lancashire. For 



