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received from the Royal College of Physicians the Bayly Medal, 

 " Ob physiologiam feliciter excultam." 



In conversations shortly before his death,- h'fe often spoke of looking' 

 forward throughout his life-time (alas ! how quickly shortened'!) to 

 continued application of all the energy he could devote to his useful 

 work at once a consolation to him and a duty. 



He has well expressed his own view on biological pursuits; at 

 p. 363 of the ' Morphology of the Skull ' :- " The study of animal 

 morphology leads to continually grander and 1 more reverent views-of 

 creation and of a Creator. Each fresh advance shows us further 

 fields for conquest, and at the same time deepens the conviction that, 

 while results and secondary operations may be discovered by human 

 intelligence, ' no man can find out the work that God maketh from 

 the beginning to the end.' We 'live as in a twilight of knowledge, 

 charged with revelations of order and beauty ; we steadfastly look 

 for a perfect light, which shall reveal perfect order and beauty." 



An unworldly seeker after truth, and loved by all who knew him 

 for his uprightness, modesty, unselfishness, and generosity to fellow- 

 workers, always helping young inquirers with specimens and infor- 

 mation, he is lost to sight as a friend and father, but lives in the 

 minds of his fellow-workers, of those whom he so freely taught^ and of 

 his bereaved relatives, as a great and good man, whose beneficent in- 

 fluence will ever be felt in a wide-spreading and advancing science 

 by thoughtful and appreciative men. 



T. R. J. and J. E. H. 



ROBERT WILLIAM MYLNE, who died in July, 1890, aged 74, was for 

 thirty years a Fellow of the Royal Society, to which also his father 

 and his grandfather belonged. He was descended from a family 

 eminent for several generations in architecture and engineering, his 

 grandfather, Robert Mylne, F.R.S., and his father, William Chadwell 

 Mylne, F.R.S., both having been engineers of eminence, and both 

 attached to the New River Company. 



Robert William Mylne was closely associated with his father in the 

 active management of the New River Company. He was also for 

 some years engineer to the Limerick Water Company, and was fre- 

 quently consulted upon wells and water-supply both by the Govern- 

 ment and private companies, and at one period of his life often gave 

 scientific evidence on Water Bills before the House of Commons. He 

 obtained a good water-supply for one of the sunk forts in the sea off 

 Portsmouth, and was employed on the well at Tilbury and other 

 fortifications. 



In the department of geology he was, perhaps, best known, and 

 his geological map of London and the neighbourhood, a work of 

 immense labour and expense, was long a standard authority amongst 



