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Burdett-Coutts to the Museum of the University of Oxford, in con- 

 nection with the foundation of a geological scholarship, and is still 

 known as " The Pengelly Collection." In 1863, Mr. Pengelly was 

 elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, mainly in recognition of his 

 work at Bovey and at Brixham ; and in 1886 he received the Lyell 

 Medal from the Geological Society — an award of singular fitness in so 

 far as it commemorated the author of the " Antiquity of Man," who 

 had been largely instrumental in securing the exploration of Kent's 

 Cave. It is hoped that the memory of Mr. Pengelly may be suitably 

 perpetuated, and to this end an influential Committee has been formed, 

 including the President of the Royal Society, Professor Huxley, Sir 

 John Lubbock, and Sir Douglas Galton, to consider a scheme for the 

 provision of more Museum accommodation at Torquay. 



Mr. Pengelly's scientific work was characterised by extreme 

 honesty of purpose and thoroughness of execution ; no amount of 

 labour was considered too great for the elucidation of a detail which, 

 to others, might seem insignificant. The work he undertook demanded 

 accurate observation and sagacious inference rather than the gift of 

 originality. Outside scientific circles Mr. Pengelly was at one time 

 well known as a popular lecturer : his lectures were marked by much 

 freedom of utterance and freshness of language, while they were 

 certainly not lacking in one of the prime elements of success in public 

 speaking — a touch of humour. To most people his geniality of 

 presence was magnetic. In fact, many of us feel that, by Mr. 

 Pengelly's death, we have lost one of the most clear-headed, quick- 

 witted, and warm-hearted of friends. 



F. W. R. 



VERNON LOVETT CAMERON. 

 Born 1844. Died March 26, 1894. 



BY the death of Commander Cameron, owing to a fall from his horse 

 at Leighton Buzzard on 26th March, we have lost another of 

 the leaders of the " heroic age " of African exploration. He was 

 born in 1844, ^"^ early entered the Royal Navy, and had his interest 

 in African exploration roused while engaged in dhow-chasing off the 

 East Coast of Africa. He was in Zanzibar when the Royal Geo- 

 graphical Society's Livingstone Relief Expedition broke down by the 

 resignations of its successive leaders. Lieutenant Dawson, Lieutenant 

 Henn, and Mr. New. He then proposed to organise another, and 

 was commissioned by the Geographical Society to start to the relief 

 of Livingstone, and then to solve the problem as to whether the 

 Lualaba was really the head river of the Congo or the Nile. He left 

 Bagamoyo early in 1873 with three other Europeans and a caravar 

 of over 230 men. Though he succeeded in performing what 

 was then the great feat of crossing Africa, the expedition was 

 not a complete success. The caravan met Livingstone's body as 

 it was being carried back to the coast, and thus the first object 



