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of physics. In addition to his immense knowledge Wiedemann had 

 moral qualities single-hearted devotion to truth, absolute fairness, and 

 generous kindliness in recognizing the merit of others, which specially 

 fitted him for literary work of the kind he undertook. 



Wiede'mann was a Privy Councillor of the Kingdom of Saxony. 

 He was elected a Foreign Member of the Koyal Society in 1884, 

 and was a Member or Honorary Member of numerous other Societies 

 and Academies in Germany and other countries. 



He married, in 1851, Clara Mitscherlich, eldest daughter of the 

 chemist, who survives him, and he leaves a daughter and two sons, 

 one of whom is the well-known Professor of Physics at Erlangen. 



G. C. F. 



SIR FREDERICK McCOY. 1823-1899. 



Professor SIR FREDERICK McCoy. The announcement of the death 

 of this distinguished naturalist, geologist, and palaeontologist, which 

 took place at Melbourne, May 16, 1899, appeared in the morning 

 papers in London, May 18. 



Sir Frederick McCoy held the post of Professor of Natural Science 

 in the University of Melbourne, Australia, for upwards of forty years, 

 and had attained his 76th year at the time of his decease. 



His mental activity was unimpaired ; his last communication : " On 

 a new Australian Pterygotus, " having appeared in the ' Geological 

 Magazine ' for May, 1899, p. 193. His name in Australia will always 

 be connected with the splendid Museum of Natural History and 

 Geology in Melbourne, of which he was the founder and life-long 

 presiding genius. 



Frederick McCoy was the son of Dr. Simon McCoy, M.D., of Dublin, 

 and was born in that city in the year 1823. He was educated origi- 

 nally for the medical profession, and attended lectures, hospital prac- 

 tice, &c., in Dublin, and also in Cambridge ; but while yet too young 

 to be admitted to the profession, he devoted himself assiduously to the 

 study of all branches of natural science, classifying the collections of 

 the Geological and Royal Societies of Dublin, with the object of apply- 

 ing recent zoology to palaeontology as the basis of stratigraphical 

 geology. About this time he accepted the offer of Sir Richard Griffith 

 to make the palseontological investigations required for the geological 

 map of Ireland for the Boundary Survey, publishing the results in a 



