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private aquarium he established at home, and some of his results were 

 issued in pamphlet form. In 1884 he was appointed Assistant- 

 Naturalist under the Scottish Fishery Board, and in the next year he 

 became Lecturer on Embryology in the University of Edinburgh — a 

 position he held until his death. Mr. Brook's first great work was his 

 memoir on the Antipatharian Corals, published in the " Challenger ' 

 Reports in 1890 ; and for the last three years he had been occupied in 

 cataloguing the corals in the British Museum. The first part of this 

 catalogue, a fine quarto volume, dealing with genus [Madrepom, and 

 exquisitely illustrated with Mr. Brook's own photographs, has only 

 just been issued. Now, alas ! the work is suspended, and must be 

 relegated to other hands. Mr. Brook was a member of Council of the 

 Linnean Society, and the loss of his genial presence will be mourned 

 by a large circle of friends. 



GEORGE WILLIAM SHRUBSOLE. 

 Born 1827. Died July 22, 1893. 



CHESTER has lost a valued citizen, and Science an enthusiastic 

 worker, in the person of Mr. G. W. Shrubsole, F.G.S., the 

 geologist and antiquary. He belonged to the Kentish family of the 

 same name, being a brother of the well-known geologists, Messrs. 

 W. H. and O. A. Shrubsole, and settled in Chester some forty years 

 ago. Commencing as a chemist's assistant, in the course of a few 

 years he started a business of his own in Market Square, which is now 

 in the hands of his two sons. In addition to his retail trade, he had 

 a considerable connection as an analytical chemist among mine- 

 owners in North Wales. He was Honorary Curator to the Grosvenor 

 Museum, a member of the Chester Archaeological Society, and a 

 painstaking student of the antiquities of his own city. Mr. Shrubsole 

 was one of the founders, with Charles Kingsley, of the Chester Society 

 of Natural Science, and held the office of Chairman of the Geological 

 Section for some years. He contributed numerous papers on local 

 matters to the Chester societies, and pubHshed a handbook to Chester 

 antiquities on the occasion of the visit of the British Archaeological 

 Association. In 1879 and 1880 he contributed papers on the Carboni- 

 ferous Polyzoa to the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 

 of London, and in 1883 was awarded the Kingsley Medal of the 

 Chester Society of Natural Science in recognition of the value of his 

 researches. 



MAXIMILIAN VON HANTKEN. 



GEOLOGY in Hungary has sustained a loss by the death last 

 June of Maximihan von Hantken von Prudnick. This venerable 

 naturalist was Professor of Palaeontology in the University of 

 Budapest, Director of the Hungarian Geological Society, and a 



