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which was dedicated to him on his seventieth birthday affords eloquent testimony 
of the respect and gratitude of those who had the privilege of sitting at his feet. 
The wall-diagrams by Leuckart and Nitsche are almost as familiar to the 
student as Leuckart’s memoirs and his bibliographical Berichte (1848-1879) are 
to the investigator. 
As generaliser, specialist, and teacher, Rudolf Leuckart was certainly one 
of the great zoologists of the century. 
See BitTscuHi, O., Zool. Centralbl., vi. 1899, pp. 264-266. 
Carus, J. V., Zur Erinnerung an Rudolf Leuckart, Ber. Ges. Wiss. Leipzig, 1898, pp. 
51-62. 
BLANCHARD, R., Notices biographiques. I., R. Leuckart. Avec portrait. Arch. Para- 
sitol. 1898, pp. 185-190. 
GropseEN, C., Rudolf Leuckart. Ein Nachruf. Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien. 1898, 5 pp. 
Jacost, A., Rudolf Leuckart. Mit Portrait. Centralbl. Bakteriol. xxiii. 1898, pp. 1073- 
1081. X. 
The death is reported by telegram of Mr. JoHN WHITEHEAD, the well-known 
collector and explorer, who succumbed to an attack of pestilential fever while 
on a scientific mission in the island of Hainan. He left England in the autumn 
of last year to explore the less known islands of the Philippine group. On his 
arrival at Manilla, he found the condition of things too disturbed to permit of 
his going into the interior, and so made his way to Hainan, the highlands of 
which have never been traversed by European. Mr. Whitehead has during the 
last three years been engaged in the exploration of the Philippines, and by his 
work he added greatly to our knowledge of the zoology of the group. In his 
last expedition to the island of Luzon, Mr. Whitehead made an unexpected 
discovery in the shape of a new and peculiar mammal fauna inhabiting the 
Luzon highlands, and believed to be isolated on a small plateau on the top of 
Mont Data, in the centre of northern Luzon at an altitude of from 7000 to 
8000 feet. As a collector Mr. Whitehead was highly esteemed, and his death 
at the early age of 43 will be especially felt in the Natural History Museum at 
South Kensington, the zoological collections in which have been enriched through 
his industry and skill. 
The deaths are also announced of Prof. L. A. CHARPENTIER of the Faculty 
of Medicine, Paris; on April 20, at Montauban, Prof. CHARLES FRIEDEL (b. 
1832), one of the most distinguished of French chemists, and one of the 
initiators of the French Association for the Advancement of Science; Dr. 
THEODOR von Hess.ine, formerly professor of anatomy in the University of 
Munich, at the age of 83 years; on May 6, aged 73, the Rev. T. NEVILLE 
HUTCHINSON, who was science master at Rugby from 1866-83, and did much 
to introduce the study of science in the English public schools ; on May 17, the 
Rev. JONATHAN S#ort, vicar of Hoghton, near Preston, in his 74th year. 
He was well known as a geologist and antiquarian throughout the North of 
England, and has taken an active part in collecting and preserving the historical 
records of Lancashire. 
