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mical drawings based upon it — the prototype of all since established 

 in various parts of the world. 



Among Parker's published works there stand conspicuous his 

 "Zootomy", a didactic laboratory treatise, and his "Lessons in Ele- 

 mentary Biology", now translated into German, a book for the study 

 and the fireside. Both take high rank among scientific manuals in 

 the English language and both were the direct outcome of his con- 

 nection with Huxley and his educational work, and the last-named 

 takes rank as the most important treatise fur the elementary student 

 that has appeared since Huxley and Martin's epoch-making "Practical 

 Instruction in Elementary Biology". To read this book and a charming 

 biography of his father which Parker published in 1893, is to realise 

 the warmth and alfection of his nature, the strength of his character, 

 the breadth of his attainments as a philosophic teacher and his com- 

 mand of literary style. In these and all respects Parker's was a 

 charming character. As a companion he was loyal and afiectionate, 

 as a worker painstaking and reliable, a friend of youth, utterly de- 

 stitute of ostentation and false pride, withal an exemplary man; and 

 among those who during the period of his association with Huxley 

 and his great work as a teacher came under his charge and benefitted 

 by his example may be mentioned F. E. Beddard, Angelo Heil- 

 PRiN, H. F. OsBORN , W. B. Scott, and Oldfield Thomas, among 

 wellknown zoologists and anatomists. 



As an investigator Parker published some 40 odd papers and 

 monographs, the best known of which are those dealing with the 

 "Structure and Development of Apteryx" and the "Cranial Osteology, 

 Classification and Phylogeny of the Dinornithidae", sufficient in them- 

 selves to have made him famous. On settling down in New Zealand, 

 Parker early published a short paper on a new species of Holothurian 

 (Chirodotes Dunediensis), as it were in anticipation of the later 

 resolve by him and his colleagues who were during the early '80s. 

 appointed to the Australasian Professorships of Biology, to preferably 

 investigate their indigenous fauna, leaving the refinements of histology 

 and the like for those at home. The results of the combined labours 

 of these men are now monumental. Their work is now saving from 

 oblivion a knowledge of things rapidly passing away, and there will 

 ever remain memorably associated with the desire to create a sustained 

 interest in it a series of short "Notes from the Otago University 

 Museum" which Parker during the 17 years he was in New Zealand 

 contributed to the pages of "Nature" and of "Studies in Biology for 

 New Zealand Students" which he instituted and with his pupils and 

 co-workers maintained. Apart from this special interest, as involving 

 the investigation of the Australasian fauna, Parker's pubhshed works 

 cover a wide -field. Vertebrates and Invertebrates alike came under 

 examination, and in his series of papers on the anatomy of the Cray- 

 fishes, which culminated in a contribution to the Macleay Memorial 

 Volume published in 1893 conjointly with his pupil Miss Josephine 

 Gordon Rich, there can be traced interesting continuity of ideas, and 



