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followed an important communication on the Kimeridge Steneosaurus, 

 and in 1870 three more papers descriptive of specimens from the 

 same district. All these Dorsetshire fossils were in the collection of 

 Mr. Mansel-Pleydell, and are now in the British Museum. In 1870 

 he began to study the Iguanodon and other remains from the Isle of 

 Wight, preserved in the Fox collection, now at Cromwell Road ; and 

 between 1873 and 1883 some twelve papers proceeded from his pen on 

 the subject, remarkable alike for their penetration and clearness. 

 Of these perhaps the most important were those on Hypsilophodon 

 {Phil. Trans., 1883), Polacanthus (Phil. Trans., 1882), Omithopsis (Quart. 

 Jouvn. Geol. Soc, 1879 and 1880). Besides these Wealden forms, 

 Hulke found time in his busy life to study and describe a new 

 dinosaur, Iguanodon pvestwichi, from the Kimeridge Clay of Cumnor ; 

 he also made important contributions to our knowledge of Megalosaurus 

 and Poikilophuron. His addresses to the Geological Society, when 

 President, dealt with the shoulder girdle of the Ichthyosauria and 

 Plesiosauria and with the Iguanodon discoveries made in Belgium 

 by Dollo and others. But before studying palseozoology, Mr. Hulke 

 wrote several valuable papers on the eye of the reptilia and 

 mammalia, a subject in sympathy with his special medical researches. 

 His last contribution to our science was made on the shoulder girdle 

 of the Ichthyosauria and Plesiosauria, and was supplementary to his 

 address on the same subject before the Geological Society. This 

 paper was read in 1892 before the Royal Society. Mr. Hulke 

 received the Wollaston medal from the Geological Society in 1887. 



Under a somewhat abrupt and heavy exterior there was an 

 abundance of warm and generous feeling. More than one of his 

 younger scientific colleagues are grateful to the eminent oculist for 

 professional advice freely and kindly given. John Whitaker Hulke 

 had no bitterness for those that opposed him : he was scrupulously 

 exact in his punctuality and attention to business, and his demand for 

 that in others made him appear more brusque than he really was. 

 That he was a genial companion when in the field, those who have 

 had the rare privilege of accompanying him on his rambles can 

 testify. Medical science has lost a devoted servant, the hospital 

 poor a sympathetic friend, and zoology a master whom it could ill 

 afford to spare. 



GASTON, MARQUIS DE SAPORTA. 

 Born July 28, 1823. Died January 26, 1895. 



BY the death of the Marquis de Saporta palaeontological science 

 has suffered a severe loss. Pre-eminent among those palaeo- 

 botanists whose special study has been in the domain of Mesozoic and 

 Cainozoic botany, Saporta has left a lasting and worthy memorial 

 of a long life of scientific work. It is impossible to do justice to his 

 cnotributions to the study of fossil plants within the limits of a short 



