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ful beauty and childlike joyousness of spirit behind 
all his multifarious gifts. He rejoiced to be the 
friend as well as the teacher of the young. He kept 
his heart free from all bitterness and disillusion which 
come so often to us in our later years. He knew 
and felt always how beautiful and great a thing it 
was to be alive. 
OuivEeR J. Lopce. 
NOTES. 
DrinGe ie brlpsy erort. A Keith. Woks. andes Vin. 
J. Swinburne, F.R.S., have been elected members of 
the Athenzetum Club under the rule which empowers 
the annual election by the committee of a certain 
number of persons ‘‘of distinguished eminence in 
science, literature, the art$, or for public services.” 
By the death of Mrs. Huxley on March 5, in her 
eighty-ninth year, another link with the scientific 
society of the latter half of the nineteenth century has 
been snapped. All who had the happiness of knowing 
Huxley intimately are aware of the reliance which 
he at all times reposed on the advice and judgment 
of his lifelong helpmate. Not only in all domestic 
concerns, but in questions of literary criticism and 
even of scientific procedure, he never took a _ step 
without consulting her, and her wide knowledge and 
keen literary instincts made her aid invaluable to him. 
As is well known, the young surgeon of the Rattle- 
snake found a kindly welcome in the house of Mr. W. 
Fanning, a merchant in Sydney; and the half-sister 
of the merchant’s wife, Miss Henrietta Heathorn, who 
had come out to Australia four years earlier, won his 
affections, though eight years had to elapse before the 
marriage could take place. | Strange to say, Mrs. 
Huxley’s health was a constant source of anxiety to 
her husband; he believed that an Australian medical 
man had so injudiciously treated a complaint from 
which she suffered as to have fatally undermined her 
constitution, but, nevertheless, she has survived Hux- 
ley himself by nearly twenty years. Mrs. Huxley 
wrote some very striking and thoughtful poems, non- 
sense verses, for the amusement of her children and 
grandchildren, and laughable stories, illustrated by 
one of her gifted daughters, with the same object; 
she will, however, be best remembered by the little 
work containing judiciously selected passages from 
her husband’s writings, the admirable ‘‘ Aphorisms 
and Reflections from the Writings of T. H. Huxley.” 
THE Hon. Francis ALBERT ROLLO RusseELL, whose 
death on March 30 we announced with regret 
last week, was the third son of the first Earl Russell. 
He was born on July 11, 1849, and was educated at 
Harrow and at Christ Church, Oxford. As a youth 
he became interested in meteorological phenomena, 
and when about fifteen or sixteen years of age he 
began keeping records of the weather, especially of 
clouds and optical phenomena. He became a fellow 
of the Royal Meteorological Society in 1868; and 
served on the council from 1879 to 1892, and again in 
1914, and was a vice-president in 1893-94. He was a 
fellow. of the Royal Sanitary Institute, and served on 
the council in 1881-82, and again in 1889-92. Mr. 
Russell was the author of several works and papers on 
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meteorological subjects, and also on matters connected 
with public health. He took a great interest in the 
question of London fogs, and was an advocate for the 
abatement of coal smoke. In conjunction with the 
late Mr. Douglas Archibald, he made a report to the 
Royal Society on the unusual optical phenomena of the 
atmosphere, 1883-6, including twilight effects, coronal 
appearances, sky haze, coloured suns and moons, etc., 
which were due to the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa. 
For his memoir, ‘‘The Atmosphere in Relation to 
Human Life and Health’’ (148 pp.), which was sub- 
mitted to the Hodgkins Fund prize competition of the 
Smithsonian Institution, he was awarded honourable 
mention with a silver medal. Among his other works 
may be mentioned ‘‘ The Spread of Influenza: its Sup- 
posed Relation to Atmospheric Conditions” (1891), 
‘On Hail” (1893), and ‘‘ The, Early Correspondence of 
Lord John Russell,’”? which was published last year. 
THE seventieth birthday, on March 25, of Prof. 
Adolf Engler, the director of the Royal Botanic Gar- 
den and Museum at Dahlem, near Berlin, was cele- 
-brated in the presence of many eminent German and 
foreign botanists, by several functions. On the day 
itself, Prof. Lindau spoke on behalf of the scientific 
staff of the garden and museum. Prof. Pax, rector 
of the University of Breslau, with Profs. Diels and 
Gilg, as its editors, presented to Prof. Engler a copy 
of the Fest-Band of Engler’s ‘Botanische Jahr- 
biicher.”” The volume forms a supplement to the 
fiftieth volume of this well-known publication, and 
consists of more than forty illustrated contributions, 
largely from his pupils, The volume will be a lasting 
memorial of appreciation of Prof. Engler’s botanical 
position, not only in Germany, but also in both hemi- 
spheres. As a further mark of this appreciation, Prof. 
Haberlandt presented Prof. Engler, on behalf of 
hundreds of subscribers, with his life-size marble bust, 
the work of the sculptor, A. Manthe, while Prof. 
Wittmack (to whom we owe these particulars, and the 
celebration much of its success) read the congratula- 
torv address of the Deutscne Botanische Gesellschaft. 
Following similar addresses from the Vereinigung fir 
angewandte Botanik, and from the Freie Vereinig- 
ung, an album of views of all the meeting 
places of the systematists was presented. Prof. 
Warming spoke on behalf of the foreign botanists. 
The presidents of the German Horticulture and 
of the Dendrological Societies added their felicitations, 
and it was announced that Prof. Engler had been 
made an honorary member of several learned societies 
in Germany, Russia, and other countries. On March 
26 there was a banquet at which the official world was 
represented; and on March 27 the monthly meeting 
of the Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft was converted 
into an ‘‘Engler’’ meeting, and Prof. von Wettstein 
gave, by special invitation, a lecture on the phylo- 
genetic evolution of the Angiosperm flower. 
IN connection with the establishment of a meteoro- 
logical observatory at Agra for upper-air observations, 
the Pioneer Mail states that the Government of India 
has decided that the observatory shall be called the 
‘* Aerological Observatory, Agra,” and that Mr. J. H. 
Field, Imperial meteorologist, while in charge of this 
