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be regarded as the text-book par excellence on the subject of which it 

 treats. By the publication of these two important works Mr. Balfour's 

 fame was established, and honours on all sides were bestowed upon him. In 

 1878 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1881 was not 

 only placed on the Council, but received the high distinction of a Royal 

 Medal. In the same year the University of Glasgow conferred on him the 

 degree of LL.D., and in December last he was elected President of the 

 Cambridge Philosophical Society. He was invited to succeed the late 

 Professor Rolleston in the Linacre Professorship at Oxford, and was also 

 pressed to take the chair of Natural History at Edinburgh, but declined 

 both these honours, preferring to wait until some occasion might arise which 

 would enable him to accept office in his own University. Fortunately he 

 had not long to wait ; for his merits were so fully and generally recognised 

 that in the spring of the present year a chair of Animal Morphology was 

 specially created for him, and he was unanimously elected to occupy it. It 

 was during a temporary absence from Cambridge, for the enjoyment of that 

 change of air and scene, which is periodically so essential to all brain- 

 workers, that Mr. Balfour lost his life. By some untoward accident, the 

 details of which can never be known (since his guide and only companion 

 perished with him), the work of Science was suddenly and painfully deprived 

 of one of its brightest ornameuts. It has fallen to the lot of but few to 

 attain, at such an early period of life, so eminent a position in the world of 

 Science, and although fellow- workers in the same field will be for ever 

 grateful for the valuable works which he fortunately lived to publish, they 

 will for ever regret that he was not spared to accomplish more, and to give 

 to the world still further proofs of that extraordinary ability which he 

 possessed as an original investigator in one of the most important branches 

 of biological science. 



The late Professor Leith Adams. — We regret to have to add 

 another name to the death-roll of working zoologists — that of Andrew Leith 

 Adams, M.D., F.R.S , late Professor of Natural History at Queen's College, 

 Cork. His name will be familiar to most of our readers as author of many 

 pleasantly written works of travel, in which records of sport and natural 

 history are agreeably combined. We have before us his ' Wanderings of a 

 Naturalist in India,' 'Field and Forest Rambles in Canada,' and ' Notes of 

 a Naturalist in the Nile Valley and Malta,' the last named perhaps being 

 the most noteworthy from the zoologist's point of view. All these books were 

 written by Dr. Adams in the hours of leisure from duty as Army Surgeon, 

 in which capacity he was attached first to the 91th Regiment, which he 

 joined in 1848, and subsequently to the 2Mnd Regiment It was with the 

 latter regiment that he served in the war of the North-west Frontier in 

 1854-55, and earned the medal given for that service. His travels in 

 various parts of the world enabled him to cultivate a taste for outdoor 



