July, 1896. OBITUARY. 63 



Professor Daubree was a prolific writer, his best known work 

 being a large treatise published in 1879 under the title of " Etudes 

 synthetiques de Geologic Experinientale," wherein he collected the 

 results of his experimental work which had been recorded in the 

 Annales des Mines and other scientific journals. The year after this 

 publication he received from the Geological Society of London the 

 Wollaston Medal, appropriately awarded during the presidency of 

 Dr. Sorby, whose work as an experimental geologist had run to some 

 extent in a parallel direction. Another of Daubree's important works 

 Avas his three-volume treatise entitled " Eaux Souterraines," which 

 appeared in 1887. 



Professor Daubree was formerly a frequent visitor to England, 

 where he was endeared to a large circle of scientific friends, many of 

 whom are now passed away. Twenty years ago he delivered an 

 address on his favourite topic at the Science Conferences held in 

 connection with the Loan Collection of Apparatus at South 

 Kensington. A man naturally of simple habits and warm affections, 

 unaffectedly modest, yet saturated with scientific enthusiasm, Daubree 

 lived and died beloved as a friend by those who knew him, and 

 .admired by all as an original investigator of the first rank. 



F. W. R. 



FRIEDRICH GERHARD ROHLFS. 



Born April 14, 1831. Died June, 1896. 



ROHLFS, one of the most celebrated explorers of the northern part 

 of the African Continent, was born at Vegesack in 1831. 

 Taking up medicine as a profession he entered the French Foreign 

 Legion, and acted as surgeon to the forces employed in Algeria from 

 1855 to i860. Adopting Mohammedan costume and custom he made 

 an expedition through Morocco in i860, and from that time onwards 

 •continued his explorations of northern Africa. Among other places 

 visited by him may be mentioned Abyssinia, Tripoli, Egypt, the 

 Libyan desert, and the Sahara. In 1870, Rohlfs made his home at 

 Weimar, and subsequently resided there when not on his travels. He 

 ihad visited America, and in 1884-85 was German Consul at Zanzibar. 

 He published numerous books on his travels. 



HENRY BARGMAN POLLARD. 

 Born i86g. Died June 14, i8g6. 



WE deeply regret the premature death of this investigator, who was 

 accidentally drowned while bathing at Dover. He had received 

 his first appointment last year as lecturer on biology in Charing Cross 

 Hospital. Dr. Pollard was a Scholar of Christ Church, Oxford, 

 whence he obtained a research scholarship on taking his degree. He 

 proceeded to study in the Anatomical Institute of the University of 

 Freiburg, and next, in 1892, occupied the Oxford University table in 



