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OBITUARIES 
GEORGE GREY 
Born 1812. DiED 19TH SEPTEMBER 1898 
Str GEORGE GREY was born at Lisbon, educated at Sandhurst, entered 
the army in 1829, and became captain in 1855. Retiring from the 
profession, he conducted two expeditions of discovery in the north- 
west and west of Australia from 1837 to 1839, the results of his 
travels appearing in 1841. His collections were worked out by J. E. 
Gray, J. Gould, and Adam White. In 1841 he was appointed 
Governor of South Australia, and in 1845 of New Zealand, to which 
colony the rest of his life was devoted, with the exception of a period 
of Governorship of Cape Colony, Sir George Grey’s valuable Colonial 
services are too well known to need repetition here, but a few words 
are necessary to emphasize his services to zoology, which were of no 
ordinary kind. A deep friendship with Richard Owen led him to seize 
every available opportunity for collecting the fauna of the lands he 
visited, and his own inclination led him towards the music, folk lore, 
and dialects of the native inhabitants. In a letter to Owen in 1849 
he deplores the burning of his New Zealand home and the loss of a 
complete skeleton of moa, three moa skulls, besides numerous other 
bones, the skeleton of what was probably a Wotornis, and bones of a 
quadruped. But with his characteristic courage, he adds, “I will 
endeavour in the course of this summer to collect again.” The 
Daily Chronicle for October 18 has, we are glad to see, started a 
national memorial to this great public servant. 
LOUIS, LAURENT: GABRIEL, DE,,MORTIELET 
Born 29TH Avcust 1821. DIED SEPTEMBER 1898 
It is noticeable that in nearly every field of intellectual research some 
few enthusiastic observers and thinkers are alone the first tillers of 
the new soil, often amidst troubles and disappointments. So in 
Anthropology, an important division of Archaeological study, Mr G. 
de Mortillet, following up the investigations of Mr Boucher de Perthes, 
was one of the forward workers in this field of research. By his 
co-operation in compiling and editing the “ Matériaux pour I’Histoire 
positive et philosophique (primitive et naturelle) de lHomme,” 
together with Trutat, Cartailhac, and others, he greatly aided the ad- 
vancement of his favourite science, accumulating facts, and forming and 
distributing useful generalisations as to the probable succession of the 
various cave-dwellers in Central France and elsewhere. Taking as 
the basis of his calculations the results of the examination of the caves 
of Dordogne and neighbouring districts, and the comparison of the 
animal remains, and the typical stone and bone implements, he sug- 
