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Eyed Crustacea, one of his very few zoological works beyond the limits 
of the Insecta. At this time the zoological world was convulsed with 
the controversy which followed the publication of the Origin of Species. 
In the year that Westwood was appointed to his chair, the British 
Association met at Oxford, and the famous debate between Professor 
Huxley and Bishop Wilberforce took place. Westwood, like most 
systematic naturalists of his day, was strongly opposed to the new 
views; he attacked the Darwinian theory in a few papers and letters, 
but prolonged controversy seemed distasteful to him. He went on 
steadily with his systematic work, and, while he continued to the end 
firm in his convictions, he saw ere his death a biological school 
established at Oxford whose teachers owe their inspiration to the 
work of Darwin. He lived, also, to see Oxford theologians welcome 
evolution as a valuable contribution to religious thought. 
The collection under his charge at Oxford, second only to that 
of the National Museum—and in some groups superior—now occu- 
pied his attention, and in 1874 the new and rare insects of the Hope 
Museum were described and figured in the magnificent work known 
as the Thesaurus Entomologicus Oxoniensis. In the same year he issued 
a second edition of the Butterflies of Great Britain, in which the plates, 
as well as the text, were from his own hand. In the last few years 
of his life he returned to the study of the Orthoptera, and published, 
in 1889, his final great work, the Revisio Insectorum Fanulie Mantidarum. 
Besides the books enumerated, numberless papers on entomo- 
logical subjects by Westwood have appeared in scientific journals 
and transactions during the last sixty-five years. His contributions 
to the science of insect-life and structure were confined to no special 
group; the literature of every ordec has been enriched by his 
researches. Nor did he confine his labours to the purely scientific 
aspect of entomology; in many articles contributed to the Gardener's 
Chronicle he elucidated the history of the insect enemies of the culti- 
vator of the soil. At the present time, when extreme specialisation 
threatens to become more and more the habit of systematic naturalists, 
it is well to remember that Westwood has shown that it is possible 
to do a vast amount of thoroughly good work without unduly narrow- 
ing the range of study. To his admirable personal qualities, all who 
had the pleasure of his acquaintance bear hearty witness. 
Giskh€; 
JOHN STRONG NEWBERRY, M.D. 
Born DECEMBER 22, 1822. Diep DECEMBER 7, 1892. 
PIONEER and honoured leader in North American Geology 
has just’ passed away in the person of Professor Newberry, of 
New York. Born seventy years ago at New Windsor, Connecticut, 
and removed in early childhood to the then newly-founded Cuyahoga 
Falls City, in Ohio, he was educated for the medical profession, 
