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OBITUARY NOTICE. 

 CHARLES FREDERIC ROUSSELET, F.R.M.S. 



1854—1921. 



It is with great regret we have to record the death of Mr. C. F. 

 Rousselet, who for many years was a familiar figure at our meet- 

 ings. Rousselet was born at Friedrichsdorf, near Bad-Homburg, 

 in Germany, in 1854, and died on October 15th, 1921, after a long 

 illness of several years. He came of an old Huguenot family and 

 his direct ancestor, Esa'ie Rousselet, with his son and daughter, 

 left his home at Perriere, near Soissons, after the Revocation of 

 the Edict of Nantes, about 1685. He and several others, some 

 thirty refugee families in all, reached Switzerland, and thence, 

 following an invitation given by Friedrich II, Landgrave of 

 Hesse-Homburg, in 1687, went to Germany and founded a French 

 Huguenot settlement, afterwards called Friedrichsdorf from the 

 name of their benefactor. Here the descendants of the refugees 

 have continued to live, speaking French as their mother- tongue, 

 to the present day. Rousselet' s mother's name was Garnier ; 

 she was descended from Jeremie Garnier, a Huguenot refugee 

 from Vitry-le-Franyais, in the Champagne, whose father was a 

 well-known surgeon in Vitry. 



Mr. Rousselet came to London in 1873 and obtained a certifi- 

 cate of naturalisation in April 1889. During the years 1881-1902 

 he was agent in London for the well-known Bordeaux firm of 

 A. de Laze et fils. 



Before the publication of Hudson and Gosse's " Rotifera " 

 in 1886, Rousselet had already begun to pay attention to 

 this group of animals. The systematic study of the Rotifera 

 may be said to date from the publication of this book, and 

 Rousselet was not slow to avail himself of its use in extending our 

 knowledge of this interesting group of freshwater organisms. His 

 researches, continued over many years, led to his becoming recog- 

 nised as the chief authority. His contributions, both systematic 

 and descriptive, were published in the Journals of the Royal 

 Microscopical Society and of this Club ; they cover a wide ground 



