92 Obitiuiry Notice. 



Heer's first great work was " On the Fossil Insects of 

 <Xiiingen and of RaJuboj iu Croatia." 1853. 



Flora Fossilis Arctica (7 vols. 1300 pages, 399 plates). 

 1868-83. 



Flora Tertiaria Helvetica (8 vols. 3500 pages). 1855. 



Flora Fossilis Helvetica (I vol. 70 plates). 1876. 



UrveU del' Schweiz, translated into French by Gaudin iu 

 1865, and into English by J. Ileywood in 1876. A new 

 and enlarged edition appeared in 1879. 



" Description of the Tertiary Flora of Bovey Tracy," 

 Londtrn Phil Trans. 1861. 



Professor AlUn Thorfison, M.D., LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S. 

 L. (fc E. By Professor Cleland. 



(Read 8th May 1884.) 



Among the losses which this Society has sustained during 

 the past year by death, it is our painful duty to record the 

 name of Pr Allen Thomson, who died on the 25th March, at 

 his residence in London, and was buried on the 28th, close 

 beside the remains of his brother, in the Dean Cemetery of 

 Edinburgh. 



Dr Thomson became a member of this Society on 9th April 

 18.39. 



He was the son of Dr John Thomson, Professor of Military 

 Surgery, and afterwards of Patholog}*, in the University of Edin- 

 burgh, well known as the author of a work on Inflammation, 

 and still better remembered as a notable figure in politics, a 

 trusted adherent of the Whigs, and a powerful wielder of in- 

 tjuence in that party. Xor was this circumstance without 

 effects on the life of Allen Thomson, who was named after his 

 father's friend, the well-known John Allen, long resident in 

 Holland House,, was brought much in contact with the Bed- 

 ffjrd family, and was assured, as he would sometimes playfully 

 tell, of the Whig interest to secure for him a regius chair. 



Though a member of this Society, and though the chair 

 which he long held in the University of Glasgow was formerly 

 termed the chair of Anatomy and Botany, and he was rather 

 proud of his claim to be called a professor of the latter sub- 

 ject, retaining even a certain number of diagrams and prepara- 

 tions for its illustration, Dr Thomson's attention ^ras devoted 

 principally to the phenomena of animal life. 



