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Mr. Twining was born at St. Faith's, near Norwich, in 1806, and had 

 been an invalid and cripple since 1825. He superintended the collec- 

 tion forming the Economic Museum of the Society of Arts, since 

 distributed to the South Kensington Museum and the Polytechnic 

 Institution, some of which was destroyed by fire in 1871. He 

 lectured on the science of common life, and published a smart volume 

 on the subject, entitled " Science made Easy." 



Emile Bayle, who died last January, was born at La Rochelle 

 in 1819, and was educated as a mining engineer. Between 1845 and 

 1881 he was Professor of Geology and Palaeontology at the Ecole des 

 Mines in Paris, and also held the Professorship of Geology at the 

 Ecole des Ponts et Chaussees. His best known works are " Cours 

 de Mineralogie et de Geologie," 1869, and "Sur les Fossiles recueillis 

 dans le Chili." He also collaborated in " l'explication de la Carte 

 Geologique de la France." To his energy the Ecole des Mines owes 

 its splendid collection of fossils. 



The death of Dr. Charles Girard, at Levallois, at the age of 

 73 years, destroys a link with the past. Born at Mulhouse, he left 

 Europe in 1855 for Cambridge, Massachusetts, but afterwards went 

 to Washington, where he reorganised the zoological collections of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, returning to France in 1866. He was a 

 friend of Louis Agassiz, and was the author of numerous papers on 

 the fishes and reptiles of America. 



Deputy Inspector-General David Lyall, M.D., whose death 

 was recorded on March 1, will be remembered as assistant-surgeon of 

 the " Terror " in Sir James Ross's Antarctic expedition. He also went 

 in the " Acheron " as naturalist and surgeon in the New Zealand 

 surveying expedition, in 1847 ; and was senior medical officer in 

 Belcher's expedition in search of Sir John Franklin. 



Dr. Jollet, the well-known anthropologist, has died at Grand- 

 Bassam. He made large collections, and studied the crania of 

 criminals, of the natives of New Caledonia and the New Hebrides ; 

 but death has taken him in the flower of his age, before he could give 

 to the world his observations on his valuable collections. Those 

 collections are now in the Natural History Museum at Paris. 



A portrait and memoir of Dr. Beaven Neave Rake, whose 

 death we recorded in our December number, appear in Trinidad Field 

 Naturalists' Club, vol. ii., no. 5. 



