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(Read May 10th, 1899.) 



[7OREMOST among those whose removal by death 

 from amongst us we have this year to deplore 

 is Professor George James Allman, who died 

 on November 24th, at the advanced age of 

 86. In him zoological science has lost a 

 renowned and accomplished worker. From 

 his early days he devoted himself to the study 

 of organic nature, and so highly was he 

 esteemed that during the year of his graduation 

 in the University of Dublin in 1847 ne was 

 appointed Regius Professor of Botany, a position which ten years 

 later he resigned for that of Regius Professor of Natural History 

 in the University of Edinburgh, which he held till 1870, when 

 he retired into private life. As a worker Allman was untiring, 

 and between the years 1835 and 1873, apart from his monographs, 

 which alone are monumental, he produced considerably over 100 

 papers. Allman's first paper was a botanical one on " The 

 Mathematical Relations of Forms of Cells of Plants." His great 

 reputation rests upon his investigations into the classification 

 and morphology of Coelenterata and Polyzoa, upon which he has 

 left a mark for all time. On the appearance of perhaps his 

 greatest work, " The Gymnoblastic or Tubularian Hydroids," 



