OBITUARY. 



WE regret to announce the death of Mr. Hugh Miller, 

 F.R.S.E., F.G.S., son of Hugh Miller (author of " The Old 

 Red Sandstone," " The Testimony of the Rocks," etc.). Mr. Hugh 

 Miller, who was born July 15, 1850, joined the Geological Survey in 

 1874, an d was engaged at first in surveying portions of Northumber- 

 land. Later on he was transferred to the Survey in Scotland, and 

 mapped some of the regions around Cromarty, rendered classic by 

 the observations of his father. He then proceeded to Sutherland- 

 shire, and was engaged in surveying the Eastern Schists, the Old 

 Red Sandstone, and the Glacial Drifts. He was the author of a 

 little work on " Landscape Geology," and of papers on the Glacial 

 Phenomena of Northumberland. He died January 8, 1896. 



In our article on the Perthshire Museum of Natural History con- 

 siderable mention was made of Colonel Henry Maurice Drummond 

 Hay, of Seggieden. Our readers will regret to hear that he died at his 

 family residence on January 3, at the age of 82. He had one of the 

 best private natural history collections in the country, it being 

 especially rich in birds and their nests. While in Bermuda with 

 his regiment, the 42nd Royal Highlanders, he made an exhaustive 

 collection of fishes, and his reports and drawings were sent to the 

 American Fishery Commission in i860, and were highly commended. 

 His loss will be greatly felt by the Perthshire Society of Natural 

 Science. 



The Victorian Naturalist gives the following account of Mr. J. 

 Bracebridge Wilson, M.A., F.L.S., who passed away at the age 

 of 67 on October 22 last. " In his position as head master of the 

 Church of England Grammar School, Geelong, for the past twenty- 

 two years, he had made hosts of friends all over Australia, who will 

 deeply feel his loss. Among biologists his name will long be 

 remembered as an enthusiastic collector of the sponges and algae of 

 the vicinity of Port Phillip Heads, where he was accustomed to spend 

 all his holidays dredging for fresh material to be forwarded for working 

 out to such friends as the late Dr. Macgillivray, of Bendigo, Baron 

 von Muller, Professor M'Coy, F.R.S., Melbourne University, or Dr. 

 Dendy, now of Christchurch, New Zealand ; or through them to the 

 leading specialists of England or the Continent. He was for a 



