OBITUARIES. 



JOSEPH WOLF. 



Born 1820; Died April 20, 1899. 



We regret to record the death of Joseph Wolf, the artist and painter of animals, 

 who has been for so many years prominently before the zoologist and the general 

 public. Wolf was born near Coblentz, was early apprenticed to a lithographer 

 in Antwerp, and was " discovered " by Hermann Schlegel. He came to England 

 in 1848, and was soon accepted by painters of all ranks. His studio became a 

 rendezvous, and he numbered among his friends everyone worth knowing among 

 the explorers, zoologists, and artists. Wolf's work is best known through his 

 illustrations to books, and of these Gray's "Genera of Birds," Gould's "Birds 

 of Great Britain," and his own "Life and Habits of Wild Animals" are well 

 known. A very fine series of his drawings is to be found in the apartments 

 of the Zoological Society of London, and many of the plates in the Proceedings 

 of this Society and of the Linnean Society, between 1850 and 1870, are by him. 

 He was engaged only just before his death in correcting the proofs of an article 

 by Mr. Trevor-Battye upon his work for the Artist. His life, by Mr. Palmer, 

 appeared a short time ago. 



SYLVANUS CHARLES THORP HANLEY. 



Born January 7, 1819 ; Died April 5, 1899. 



This well-known conchologist of the older school began to publish in 1840, his 

 first work being " The Conchologist's Book of Species." This was followed rapidly 

 by "A Catalogue of Recent Bivalve Shells," English edition of Lamarck's 

 "Species of Shells," 1843; "Index Testaceologicus," 1856, with W. Wood; 

 " Ipsa Linnaei Conchylia," 1855 ; and " Conchological Miscellany," 1854-58. He 

 brought out the second edition of Swainson's "Exotic Conchology," combined 

 with Edward Forbes on a " History of British Mollusca," and was the author 

 of many minor papers. He was a B.A. of Oxford (Wadham College), lived for 

 many years in Hanley Road, Hornsey Rise, London, and died at Penzance. 



JABEZ HOGG. 



Born April 4, 1817; Died Afril 23, 1899. 



Few names are more familiar in microscopy than that of Jabez Hogg. Born at 

 Chatham, he was educated at Rochester Grammar School, and in 1843 joined 

 the staff of the Illustrated London JSfews. In 1845 he entered as a student at 

 Charing Cross Hospital, becoming M.R.C.S. in 1850, and taking up practice in 

 ophthalmology ; was at the time of his death consulting surgeon to the Royal 

 Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital. He was a prominent Freemason, receiving 



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