74 NATURAL SCIENCE. JAN., 1893. 
Magazine, and until last year he was a frequent contributor to its 
pages. He was a member of many learned societies, and was elected 
F.R.S., a rare honour for a systematic zoologist, in 1867. Courteous 
to all who applied to him for information, personally or by letter, 
and always ready to place his great knowledge and extensive collec- 
tions at the service of students, he leaves an example of the best 
traditions of English naturalists. 
AmonG other recent deaths we also have to chronicle those or 
FLAXMAN SPURRELL, of Crayford, an ardent botanist, who also began 
the great collection of Pleistocene Mammalia from the Thames 
Valley, now long utilised and extended by his son, Mr. F. C. J. 
Spurrell ; of W. Martieu Wi tims, the well-known author of many 
popular treatises and magazine articles ; of the veteran conchologist, 
P. M. A. More.et; of two cryptogamic botanists, Baron FELIX Von 
THuMEN and C. M. Gorrscue, both distinguished for their labours 
among mosses and hepatice; and of ALEXANDER SxkoriTz, founder 
and editor of the Austrian Botanische Zeitschrift. 
Tue death is announced of the veteran American Professor of 
Geology, Dr. Joun Stronc NEwBERRY. We hope to give some 
account of his life and work next month. 
Tue death of Sir Richard Owen, K.C.B., on December 18, 1892, 
is noticed on p. 17. 
