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become famous. He was chairman of the Museum sub-committee of 

 management for many years, and devoted much of his time to the 

 arrangement of the collection. Mr. Higgins was the author of 

 " Notes of a Field Naturalist in the Western Tropics," 1877, a 

 " Synopsis of the Invertebrata," " Museums Memorandum Book," 

 '* Museum Talk," and several other pamphlets of a practical value on 

 similar subjects. In 1880 he rendered special service to the Liver- 

 pool Museum by securing the duplicate Cirripedes collected by 

 Darwin during the voyage of the " Beagle." He founded the Liver- 

 pool Naturalists' Field Club in i860, and had been president of the 

 Literary and Philosophical and the Microscopical Societies of Liver- 

 pool. The iine series of Coal-measure fossils from the railway cut- 

 ting at Ravenhead near St. Helen's, now in the Liverpool Museum, 

 was collected by himself. An excellent portrait of Mr. Higgins 

 appeared in Research for July i, 1888, and to the article which accom- 

 panied it, by Mr. O. W. Jeffs, we are indebted for most of this 

 information. 



''PHE death is announced of Dr. Henri Viallanes, Director of the 

 -i- Zoological Station of Arcachon. Dr. Viallanes, who was only 

 thirty-six years of age, had paid considerable attention to the nervous 

 system of the Arthropoda, and his early loss is much to be deplored. 



WE also regret to record the death of Dr. John Rae, the Arctic 

 explorer, and of Mr. James W. Davis, the geologist and 

 archaeologist, one of our valued contributors. Obituary notices will 

 appear next month. 



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ADDENDUM. 

 On p. 59, line 38, after the words " Dr. Nansen on glaciation " add the words 

 are unsound." 



