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daughter of Sir T. S. Pratt, K.C.B., who survives him. He was created 

 K.C.B. in 1853, G.C.M.G. in 1874, and was elected F.R.S. in 1884. 

 He died in London, October, 1898, in his 84th year, and was buried in 

 Brompton Cemetery. 



J. D. H. 



GEORGE JAMES ALLMAN. 1812-1898. 



GEORGE JAMES ALLMAN was born in Cork in the year 1812, and 

 died on November 24, 1898, at the age of 86. His early years were 

 spent in Belfast, and he was educated at the Academical Institution in 

 that city. His original intention was to study for the bar, but deve- 

 loping an enthusiastic love for Natural History, he changed the course 

 of his education and graduated in Arts and in Medicine at the 

 University of Dublin in 1844. 



Having already made his mark as a man of distinction in the 

 scientific world, he was appointed to the Professorship of Botany in the 

 University of Dublin, in succession to Dr. William Allman, and he 

 held this post from the year of his graduation until 1856, when he 

 was appointed Regius Professor of Natural History in the University 

 of Edinburgh. He retained his Professorship at Edinburgh until 1870 

 when, in consequence of failing health, he resigned. 



Two features marked his career as a teacher; his great skill in 

 drawing animals and their organs upon the blackboard, and the en- 

 couragement he gave to his students to accompany him on his dredging 

 expeditions on the Forth and to study the animals he obtained in their 

 fresh living condition. One of his former pupils has informed me 

 that Allman never made the mistake of attempting to crowd into his 

 lectures too much information. He began with a brief recapitulation 

 of the last lecture, and then coming to the new matter, spoke with 

 deliberate eloquence, and using the blackboard with great skill made 

 an impression upon his audience which it was difficult to forget. 



After his resignation of the Professorship of Natural History at 

 Edinburgh, Allman retired to Parkstone, in Dorsetshire, where he 

 devoted the remaining years of his life to original work in zoology, 

 and to the pursuit of his favourite pastiine of horticulture. 



The number of papers of original research published by Allman is 

 considerable, including many important essays on botanical subjects, 

 and on animals belonging to nearly all the large classes. Throughout 

 they are distinguished by a very remarkable foresight in the apprecia- 

 tion of really important features, and by the artistic skill and accuracy 



