FRANCIS MAITLAND BALFOUR. 



We have to record the death of our beloved friend and 

 colleague, Fra-ncis Maitland Balfour, Fellow of Trinity 

 College, Cambridge, for many years a contributor to, and 

 co-editor of, this Journal. 



His death was caused by a fall wdiilst he was attempting 

 the ascent of the Aiguille de la Belle Etoile, on the south 

 side of Mont Blanc, on July 19th last. 



He was only thirty-one years of age. 



The blow to our science and to the University of Cam- 

 bridge, which had just founded a Professorship to do him 

 honour, is overwhelming, and can be estimated by those who 

 have followed his work in these pages. 



Great as is the public loss, there is a deeper grief for those 

 who knew him as a companion and fellow-worker, honouring 

 him for his great mental powers and the firmness of will with 

 wliich he applied them, loving him for his chivalrous courtesy 

 and for the faithful and earnest nature which shewed itself in 

 all he said and did. These must sorrow not now only, but 

 through future years, as day after day they feel the need of 

 his aid and fellowship. 



Sejdemler, 1882. 



VOL. XXII. NEW SEK. 



