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Island, and spent the summer sounding and dredging in Davis Strait 

 and the North Atlantic. He devoted himself continuously, from 



1875, to studying the morphology of the Echinoderms, more par- 

 ticularly of the Crinoids, both recent and fossil. He wrote numerous 

 papers, which were published in the Transactions of the Royal 

 Society and of the Linnean and Geological Societies. In 1883 he 

 was awarded the Lyell Fund by the Geological Society of London, in 

 recognition of the value of his work, and in 1885 was elected a Fellow 

 of the Royal Society. In 1877 he was appointed Assistant-Master at 

 Eton, especially charged with the teaching of biology, and held this 

 post till his death, on the 21st October, at the age of thirty-nine. 



Dr. Henry Moseley, Linacre Professor of Human and Comparative 

 Anatomy in the University of Oxford, one of the eminent naturalists 

 of the " Challenger " expedition, who served on board the "Chal- 

 lenger " during the entire voyage round the world, from 1872 till 



1876, died on the 10th of this month, at the age of forty-six. He was 

 author of many important papers in various branches of natural 

 history, chiefly comparative anatomy and marine zoology. 



Henry Martyn Jeffery, after taking high places in the Mathematical 

 and Classical Triposes at Cambridge in 1849, commenced professional 

 life as Lecturer in the College of Civil Engineers in Putney ; and 

 in later years continued it as Headmaster of Pate's Grammar School, 

 Cheltenham, until he retired in 1882. As a teacher he was largely 

 occupied with classics, but his favourite study was mathematics, and 

 he is well known as the author of a long and continuous series of 

 papers on subjects of pure mathematics which have been published 

 in the ' Quarterly Journal of Mathematics,' the ' Journal of the 

 London Mathematical Society,' and the ' Reports of the British 

 Association.' He was actively occupied to the last with mathematical 

 work and in the preparation of a text-book on his favourite mathe- 

 matical subjects. He died, on the 3rd of November, at the age of 

 sixty-six. 



Thomas Wharton Jones, a distinguished physiologist, died on the 

 7th of this month, at nearly eighty years of age. Professor Huxley 

 was one of his pupils forty years ago and gives bright and pleasant 

 reminiscences of intercourse with his " old master." 



Three distinguished men occupying high positions in the State, 

 Fellows of the Royal Society, his Grace William Thomson, D.D., 

 Lord Archbishop of York ; the Right Honourable George Leveson- 

 Gower, K.G., Earl of Granville ; and the Right Honourable William 

 Henry Smith, M.P. ; died during the past year at the ages of seventy- 

 two, seventy-six, and sixty-six. 



The career of Carl Wilhelm von Nageli, of Munich, daring fifty 

 years of most active and fertile scientific work, is of special interest 

 in the history of botany and of biological speculation. He was elected 



