352 [November 
OBITUARIES 
WILLIAM ARCHER 
Born May 6, 1830. Diep Avuaust 14, 1897. 
WituraAmM Arcuer, who died in Dublin on August 14th last, was born 
on May 6th, 1830. He devoted himself for many years to the investi- 
gation of the lower plants and animals, especially the Desmids and 
certain groups of the Rhizopods and Infusoria. From 1876 till 1880, 
he acted on the editorial staff of the Quarterly Journal of Micro- 
scopical Science, in which most of his important work was published. 
Many of his valuable papers, however, were issued by the Dublin 
Natural History Society, now extinct, whose proceedings are, unfor- 
tunately, very scarce. He was an original member, and for many years 
secretary of the Dublin Microscopical Club. His eminence as a 
microscopist led to election into the Royal Society in 1875. In 1876 
he became librarian to the Royal Dublin Society, and when the bulk 
of the collection was transferred to the Government to form the 
National Library of Ireland, Archer became head of the new institu- 
tion. His later years were busily occupied in the duties of this 
office, and he laboured unremittingly in the transfer of the books 
to new quarters, and their arrangement and cataloguing on the 
Dewey system, of which he was an enthusiastic advocate. Two 
years ago he was compelled to retire, having reached the age of 
sixty-five. His familiar figure will be sadly missed among Dublin 
men of science, whose respect for his wide learning was accompanied 
by hearty admiration for his personal worth. G. H. C. 
The following deaths are also announced :—KAri VocEeLt and WILHELM LIEBENON, 
eminent German cartographers; KAr~L WILHELM PrErzoup, the physical and astro- 
nomical geographer ; J. H. TruMBULL, philologist and member of the National Academy 
of Sciences, U.S.A.; Ernest Hurn, professor in Frankfort and well known as a popu- 
lariser of science ; Emit ScHMIDT, a teacher of zoology in Berlin ; EpGAR MACLURE, 
professor in the Oregon State University, recently killed by a fall on Mount Rainier, 
which he was exploring with a party ; at Port Antonio, Jamaica, Dr J. E. HUMPHREY, 
associate professor of botany in Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore ; C. 8. Roy, pro- 
fessor of pathology in the University of Cambridge, aged 43 ; AucusT MOoJsISovIcs, 
professor of zoology and comparative anatomy in the University of Graz; Dr Houm- 
GREN, professor of physiology in the University of Upsala, aged 66 ; and Dr WELCKER, 
professor of anatomy in the University of Halle. 
