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OBITUARIES 
JAMER SPENCER, the geologist and palaeobotanist, died on 9th July at 
Akroydon, Yorkshire. He was born 27th April 1834 at Luddenden, 
and for a time worked in a brickyard. He was “discovered” by 
Colonel Akroyd about 1853, and by him given a post as porter in 
his warehouse, from which position he speedily rose to that of cashier, 
remaining in Colonel Akroyd’s firm until he retired in 1886. He was 
connected with the Haley Hill Literary and Scientific Society, the 
Halifax Scientific Society, and the Ovenden Naturalists’ Society in 
many ways, and did a great deal to spread a knowledge of geology 
among his fellows. Spencer became actively associated with the 
late Professor Williamson about 1878, and was an important helper 
in the “Fossil Plants of the Coal Measures.” A full account of his 
life and work appears, by Mr W. B. Crump, in the Halifax Naturalist 
for October. 
Dr JoHN EDWARD TIERNEY AITCHISON, the well-known botanist and 
explorer, died on September 50, at Kew, aged sixty-three years. He 
was born in India in 1835, took his degrees in medicine and surgery 
at Edinburgh and entered the Bengal medical’ service in 1858, re- 
tiring in 1888. He paid especial attention to the botany of India, 
publishing his first paper in 1863 on the plants of the Jhelum 
district, with notes of considerable economic value. In 1869 he 
issued a catalogue of the flora of the Punjab and Sindh, and in 1878 
he accompanied Roberts’ expedition to the Kuram, acting as botanist. 
He made immense collections, which were worked out at Kew, 
the results appearing in the Linnean Society’s publication. He 
obtained not less than 15,000 specimens from the Thal and Peiwarkotal 
districts in one expedition, and 10,000 on another occasion when he 
acted as naturalist to the Afghan Delimitation Commission. His labours 
led him over almost the whole of North-west India, Afghanistan, 
Baluchistan, Persia, and Russian Turkestan, and he was a botanist 
who had a keen idea of other things than mere dried plants. He 
has left much material which we hope will be worked out. We 
are indebted for these notes to a sympathetic article, by Mr Botting 
Hemsley, in Nature. 
Luie1 LoMBARDINI, Professor of the Anatomy of Domestic Vertebrates 
at the Veterinary School of Pisa, died at that place on 27th June, 
having been born at Poggibonsi on 11th April 1831. 
The deaths have also been announced of :—W. G. ATHERSTONE, who worked and 
wrote on the geology of South Africa between 1856 and 1874; on 1st September, at 
Hobart, Tasmania, the well-known Australian conchologist, C. E. BEDDOME; on 5th 
August, Prof. EucEn1o Brerront, director of the fishery station at Brescia, aged 53 ; 
J. Crocg, professor of pathology in the University of Brussels; GIUSEPPE GIBELLI, 
professor of botany and director of the Botanical Garden at Turin, on 16th September ; 
on 25th September, Dr A. LAsarp, at Nizza, aged 74; Don FRANcIScO COELLO DE 
PortTuGAL, president of the Geographical Society of Madrid; Hrtnrich THEODOR 
RicuTeR, lately director of the School of Mines at Freiburg; MicueLE STEFANO DE 
Rosst, the seismologist ; on 3lst May, at Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A., the botanist, 
EDWARD TATNALL, aged 80. 
