344 THE ZOoLOGisT. 
all students of the science which he taught his name is of course familiar 
as that of the author of ‘Forms of Animal Life,’ a work which has been 
commended by a high authority as “ one of the earliest and most complete 
examples of instruction by the study of a series of types now becoming so 
general.” Educated at Pembroke College, he took a First Class in Classics 
in 1850, and was elected a Fellow of his College in 1851; and after 
studying Medicine for some time at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, returned 
to Oxford on his appointment as Lee’s Reader in Anatomy at Christchurch. 
In 1860 he was elected to the Linacre Professorship above referred to, 
a post which he continued to fill at the time of his death. With extra- 
ordinary mental acquirements and great energy, Dr. Rolleston not only 
never shirked, but continually courted, hard work, and it is to be feared that 
the close and continuous application which appeared to him to be a 
necessity must have contributed in no slight degree to the ailments which 
resulted in his death. His loss will be deplored not only by a wide circle of 
friends and acquaintances by whom he was deservedly esteemed, but also 
by that section of the general public who, knowing him only by his published 
writings, had long learned to regard him as a thoroughly reliable guide and 
instructor in the sciences of which he was Professor. In addition to his 
‘Forms of Animal Life,’ which appeared in 1870 (a new edition of which, 
we believe, was in preparation at the time of his death), he published several 
valuable papers in the Proceedings and Transactions of Scientific Societies 
and other journals. Amongst these may be mentioned a paper ‘ On the 
Affinities of the Brain of the Orang-Utang” (Nat. Hist. Review, 1861); 
“Remarks on the Value of the Placental System of Classification” (Trans. 
Zool. Soc., 1866); ‘On the domestic Cats of Ancient and Modern Times” 
(Journ. Anatomy, 1868); ‘‘ On the homologies of certain muscles connected 
with the shoulder-joint” (Trans. Linn. Soc., 1870); “On the development 
of the Enamel in the Teeth of Mammals” (Quart. Journ. Microsc. Soc., 
1872); ‘‘On the domestic Pig in Prehistoric Times” (Trans. Linn. Soc., 
1877); and “On the Modifications of the External Aspects of Organic 
Nature, produced by Man’s interference” (Journ. Geogr. Soc., 1879). 
PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
ZooLocicaL Socrmty or Lonpon. 
June 7, 1881.—Prof. H. W. Frower, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in 
the chair. 
The Secretary called the attention of the meeting to the opening of the 
Insectarium in the Society’s Gardens, which had taken place on the 25th 
April, and read a report on the insects that had been reared and exhibited 
there, drawn up by Mr. Watkins, the Superintending Entomologist. 
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