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was lecturer in biology at University College, Aberyst- 
wyth. He joined the staff of the University College 
of South Wales and Monmouthshire when it opened 
ts doors in 1883, and retired in September 1922. He 
came of an illustrious family, being a son of the late 
. J. Parker. He married a daughter of the late Prof. 
ugust Weismann, who survives him, and leaves a 
family consisting of a son and two daughters. 
Prof. Parker was for many years president of the 
iological section of the Cardiff Naturalists’ Society 
nd a member of the science committee of the National 
fuseum of Wales. To the latter institution he pre- 
ented a valuable collection of zoological material a 
ew months prior to his death. In collaboration 
vith his brother he wrote Parker and Parker’s “ Prac- 
ical Zoology.” He also translated into English 
eismann’s “Germ Plasm” and an abbreviated form 
if Wiedersheim’s “ Vergleichende Anatomie der Wir- 
tiere.” In addition, he published original papers 
n the following subjects : “ Anatomy and Physiology 
Protopterus,” ‘‘ Poison-organs of Trachinus,” 
The Structure of the Young of Echidna aculeata,” 
Persistence of the Left Posterior Cardinal Vein in the 
og, with Remarks on the Homologies of the Veins 
n the Dipnoi,” “The Respiratory Organs of Rhea,” 
On some Points in the Anatomy of the Indian Tapir 
Papirus Indicus),” “The Anatomy of the Cecum in 
the Rabbit (Lepus cuniculus) and Hare (Lepus ti midus)”’; 
n collaboration with F. M. Balfour, ‘On the Structure 
nd Development of Lepidosteus” ; and in collaboration 
ith T. H. Burlend, “On the Efferent Ducts of the 
estis in Chimera monstrosa.” 
Prof. Parker devoted himself for nearly forty years 
© the interests of the College and University and to 
he development and organisation of the zoological 
lepartment. It is impossible to speak too highly of 
he courage and determination which he brought to 
ear upon his work in the face of great difficulties in 
e early days of the College. He will be sadly missed 
y a large body of former students who passed through 
us hands, in whose personal welfare, both in the 
epartment and outside, he always took the keenest 
nterest. The news of his death will be received with 
at regret by a large circle of friends and former 
olleagues. iy: Higa 
Mr. F. J. Lroyp. 
Tue death of Mr. Frederick James Lloyd on February 
removes an interesting figure from the ranks of the 
der workers in agricultural science in this country. 
. Lloyd was born at Sketty, near Swansea, in 1852, 
ind was educated at Bristol Grammar School. After 
eaving school he proceeded, for family reasons, to 
tudy law, but, showing a natural aptitude and in- 
trest in science, he soon rejected a legal career and 
found an opening in the laboratory of the late Dr. 
Voelcker. The training received there during the next 
Our years was supplemented by evening studies at 
King’s College, London, and subsequent experience in 
shemistry during a sojourn in Germany. On his return 
ito England he became successively chief assistant to 
Dr. Thomas Stevenson, of Guy’s Hospital, and at the 
aboratory of the Royal Agricultural Society, ulti- 
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mately setting up in practice on his own account as 
an agricultural chemist. 
Mr. Lloyd’s knowledge of physiology and agricultural 
chemistry thus acquired led him naturally to a special 
interest in the subject of dairying, with which he 
became still more closely identified on the death of 
Dr. Voelcker by his appointment as consulting chemist 
to the British Dairy Farmers’ Association. His close 
connexion with that body lasted throughout his life 
and directed his attention to questions of milk produc- 
tion and the feeding of dairy stock in relation thereto. 
In due course he began a series of investigations on the 
manufacture of Cheddar cheese, undertaken on behalf 
of the Bath and West and Southern Counties Agri- 
cultural Society, which proved very helpful to cheese- 
making farmers of the West of England and brought 
him into contact with the special agricultural interests 
of that area. Cider-making particularly attracted his 
notice. In association with Mr, Neville Grenville, 
and again on behalf of the Bath and West Society, he 
started experiments designed to improve the methods 
of manufacture then current on farms. These extended 
over some ten years and resulted in the establishment 
of the National Fruit and Cider Institute at Long 
Ashton in 1903, Mr. Lloyd acting as director until 
1905. This Institute, now associated with the Univer- 
sity of Bristol, and serving as its Agricultural and 
Horticultural Research Station, has been developed by 
the Ministry of Agriculture to function as the senior 
Fruit Research Station for this country, and stands 
as a direct result of Mr. Lloyd’s work. 
Mr. Lloyd lived also to see the establishment of 
the Research Institute for Dairying at Reading. His 
pioneer studies on both the subjects with which he was 
so closely identified have thus found fitting recognition. 
Much of Mr. Lloyd’s work was published by him in 
the form of a series of reports in the Journal of the 
Bath and West Society, of which for some twenty years 
he was associate editor. Those relating to cider were 
republished later by the Ministry of Agriculture. He 
also, while holding an appointment as lecturer on 
agriculture at King’s College, London, published his 
lectures in book form under the title of ‘‘ The Science 
of Agriculture,” a volume which has been translated 
into several languages. 

WE regret to announce the following deaths : 
Prof. A. S. Butler, lately professor of natural 
philosophy in the University of St. Andrews, on 
March 2, aged sixty-eight. 
Sir Ernest Clarke, until 1905 secretary of the Royal 
Agricultural Society of England and the first lecturer 
in agricultural history in the University of Cambridge, 
on March 4, aged sixty-seven. 
Prof. B. E. Fernow, emeritus professor and dean 
of the faculty of forestry at the University of Toronto, 
and first chief forester of the United States, on 
February 6, aged seventy-two. 
Prof. G. Lefevre, professor of zoology in the 
University of Missouri, on January 24, aged fifty-nine. 
Prof. Vladimir M. Shimkevich, professor of zoology 
in the University of Petrograd. 
Rev. William Wilks, for twenty-five years secretary 
of the Royal Horticultural Society and the producer 
of the well-known Shirley poppies, on March 2, aged 
seventy-nine. 
