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OBITUARIES 
NICOLAS AUGUSTE POMEL 
Born 1821. Diep AvuGcust 1898 
THE death of Pomel removes from Algeria a distinguished mineral- 
ogist and geologist and one who had made for many years a particular 
and detailed study of the country and its palaeontology. Auguste 
Pomel commenced his geological career by writing in 1842 several 
papers on the geology of the Auver ene ; his ‘thirty fourth paper (1854) 
was the first written on ‘African matters, since when he has 
published little short of 100 papers on Northern Africa. Perhaps his 
best known work is his essay on the classification of the Echinoids in 
which he founded new genera by the score. The work was regarded 
with such disapproval that it was deliberately ignored by the Zoo- 
logical Record, which declined to record his swarm of new generic 
terms ; and it was denounced with much vigour by the late Professor 
Dunean and Mr Sladen, ina paper for which the title of “ Pomelism and 
Crime” was suggested. His “Catalogue méthodique du mammiferes 
tertiaires,” 1853, is a wonderful book, and was undeservedly dis- 
credited by Paul Gervais and other writers. 
JOSEPH CHARLES HIPPOLYTE CROSSE 
Born 1827. Diep 7TH Avcust 1898 
WE regret to record the death of this distinguished conchologist, 
which occurred at Vernou (Seine-et-Marne) at the age of 71 years. 
Mr Crosse was the editor of the Journal de Conchyliologic, a journal 
founded by Petit de la Saussaye, and continued by Paul Fischer and 
Bernardi until 1861, when Crosse took the place of Bernardi, and the 
two raised the Journal to one of first importance. Among Mr 
Crosse’s chief works we may mention the Mollusca of Mexico and 
Guatemala in the Mission Scientifique au Mexique, and the 
Mollusca in Grandidier's Madagascar. He worked chiefly on 
exotic forms and contributed frequently to his own Journal. 
FELIX BERNARD 
Born 1863. Diep Avaust 1898 
ANOTHER zoologist of great promise has been removed at an early age 
in the person of Félix. Bernard, of the Paris Museum. He was best 
known by the series of papers on the hinge of the bivalved mollusca, 
which considerably advanced the study of that difficult group, and 
which have been noticed at length in these pages. He also wrote 
“Eléments de Paléontologie,” 1895. 
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