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Rugby. Finding that natural science had no place in the teaching 

 at Rugby, he urged its introduction on Dr. Tait. The latter was 

 quite willing to make the experiment, provided Dr. Sharp would 

 become the first teacher, and, under the style of " Reader in Natural 

 Philosophy," Dr. Sharp conducted the classes during 1849 and 1850. 

 " If," said the late Tom Hughes, " Tait had done nothing else at 

 Rugby than appointing Sharp, not without difficulty, as reader in 

 Natural Philosophy, he would have deserved the gratitude of every 

 Rugby man." Dr. Sharp was also one of the early supporters of the 

 establishment of local museums, and read a paper on the subject 

 before the British Association in 1839. His more important writings 

 were on the various schools of medicine, and appeared at intervals 

 under the title of " Essays in Medicine." He was elected a Fellow 

 of the Royal and of the Geological Society in 1840. 



ARTHUR SIDNEY OLLIFF, 



Born at Millbrook, Hants, October 21, 1865. 



Died at Sydney, N.S.W., December 29, 1895. 



AT7E deeply regret to learn of the premature death of this energetic 

 » ' worker and charming man. He early displayed a liking for 

 entomology, and, when a boy, assisted Mr. C. O. Waterhouse at the 

 British Museum. From 1883 to 1885 he was private secretary and 

 scientific assistant to Lord Walsingham. In February, 1895, he 

 joined the Australian Museum as assistant zoologist, and remained 

 there until transferred to the Department of Agriculture in 1890. His 

 published writings are chiefly on Coleoptera, and to a less extent on 

 Lepidoptera. Of late years his contributions to economic entomology 

 have had much practical value. 



The death in Havana of John Gundlach is announced by 

 Science. He was born at Marburg, Hesse-Cassell, in 1810, and went 

 to Cuba in 1839 on the invitation of the wealthy Cuban, Mr. Booth. 

 His collection of the fauna is preserved in the Institute at Havana. 

 He was the author of a work on Cuban ornithology, and of a book on 

 the fauna of both the Antilles. 



The death is announced in Paris of Professor Marie Philibert 

 Constant Sappey, at the advanced age of 86. Though chiefly 

 devoted to medical subjects, he is well-known by several contribu- 

 tions to anatomy and histology. His first paper, published in the 

 Comptes Rendus for 1846, is a preliminary account of his volume on 

 the respiratory apparatus of birds issued during the following year in 

 Paris. In 1880 he published a second separate work on the slime- 

 canal and lymphatic systems of fishes. 



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