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OBITUARY. 



Dr. Horace Jayne. 



(Portrait, Plate XII ) 



Dr. Horace Jayne, at one time actively interested in the 

 study of the Coleoptera, died at Wallingford, Pennsylvania, 

 near Philadelphia, on Tuesday, July 8, 1913, in his fifty-fifth 

 year. 



He was a son of Dr. David Jayne and was born in Philadel- 

 phia, March 17, 1859. graduated from the College of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania in 1879 and from the Medical School 

 of the same in 1882. After studies at the universities of Leip- 

 zig. Jena and Johns Hopkins, he returned to that of Pennsyl- 

 vania, where he became assistant instructor in Biology- and pro- 

 fessor of A^ertebrate ]\Iorphology, 1884-1894. He took an ac- 

 tive part in the founding of the School of Biology, serving as 

 secretary of the Faculty thereof, 1884-1889, Dr. Joseph Leidy 

 being director of the school. In 1889 Dr. Jayne became Dean 

 of the College Faculty, and in 1892 of that of the Department 

 of Philosophy also, holding both positions until 1894. From 

 that year until T905 he was professor of Zoology and director 

 of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biolog}- of the same 

 university. In later years, until 1909. he took an active edi- 

 torial interest in the Journal of Morphology, the Anatomical 

 Record and the Journal of Experimental Zoology. 



His zoological activities for the last thirty years of his life 

 were mainly concerned with the mammals, and his chief work 

 was Mammalian Anatomy, A Preparation for Human and 

 Comparative Anatomy. Part I. The Skeleton of the Cat, its 

 Muscular Attachments, Groivth and Variations, compared 

 with the Skeleton of Man (Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Co.. 

 1898), a stout octavo volume of 836 pages and over 500 origin- 

 al illustrations. This volume was inten'^ed. to quote from the 

 preface, as "the first of a series which aims to present a more 



