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on the understanding that the collection should re- 

 main in Lord W'alsingham's possession as long as he 

 wished. Now, however, it has been arranged Ihat 

 the collection, consisting at present of about 260,000 

 specimens, and adding about 45,000 species to the 

 small number (estimated at 4000 species) at present 

 in the British Museum, is to be transferred to the 

 Natural History Museum, South Kensington, early 

 next year. The scientific value of such a collection, 

 containing a very large number of types, can hardly 

 be overestimated. We are glad to learn that the 

 present inadequate staff of the museum is to be in- 

 creased sufficiently to allow of special attention being 

 given to the collection of micro-lepidoptera. Lord 

 W'alsingham has also liberally presented his special 

 library relating to micro-lepidoptera to the museum. 



The British Museum has previously benefited 

 largely by Lord W'alsingham's liberality. He has 

 presented upwards of 15,000 specimens, including 

 in.my collected during his tour in California and 

 Oregon in 1870-1. In connection with this journey 

 the museum published in 1879 a work on North 

 .\merican TA'tricid^, forming the fourth volume of 

 the quarto series of " Illustrations of Tv')ical .Speci- 

 mens of Lepidoptera Ileterocera in the Collection of 

 ihe British Museum." In this worU, which was 

 illustrated by seventeen coloured plates, Lord W'alsing- 

 ham described a large number of new species col- 

 lected bv himself. He also published a small volume 

 on the " Pterophoridre of California and Oregon," in 

 iSSo, illustrated by three coloured plates. Numerous 

 p.ipers containing descriptions of new genera and 

 species of various families of micro-lepidoptera by 

 Lord W'alsingham have appeared in various 

 prriodicals, especially the Transactions of the Linnean 

 and Zoological Societies, and of the Entomological 

 .Society of London (of which his lordship was president 

 in 1889-go), the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 

 \c. 



Lord Walsingham has also presented an interesting 

 collection of British macro-lepidoptera (butterflies 

 and the larger moths), accompanied by specimens of 

 caterpillars, mostly prepared by himself, and about 

 fifty of the cases of British birds in their haunts which 

 form such an attractive series in the Bird Gallery. 



In conclusion, we must not omit to record that in 

 .■iddition to these numerfius benefactions the museum 

 is indebted to Lord W'alsingham for the possession 

 of many large and valuable collections which would 

 not have been obtained except t^hrough his interest and 

 .issistance. 



PROF. HILARY BAUERMAN. 



THE world of science, and particularly the mining 

 and metallurgical branches, have suffered a 

 severe loss through the death of Prof. H. Baucrman 

 on December 5 from heart failure, after an illness of 

 nearly three months. 



Born in 1833, Bauerman entered in 1S5T, at the age 

 of eighteen, as the first student at "The Government 

 School of Mines and of Science applied to the Arts " 

 (now known as the Roval School of Mines), where 

 he studied under Lyon Playfair, Andrew Ramsay, and 

 Robert Hunt, and particularly under Percy, of whom 

 he was a favourite student, and later a most intimate 

 friend. 



During so long and active a life, and starting under 

 such excellent auspices, it is natural that a man of 

 Bauerman 's calibre should have passed through a 

 successful and distinguished career, but only those of 

 his more intimate friends who know the work which 

 he actually performed in addition to the immense 

 amount publiclv known can appreciate his services to 

 science, and narticularly to its technical applications. 



His uncompromising attitude on matters where he 

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believed himseii to be right, the misunderstandings 

 caused by the slight deafness which existed during 

 his earlier professional life and continuouslv in- 

 creased, and the eccentricities which were part of his 

 personality, and added to his charm, to those who 

 knew him, prevented him from receiving such public 

 honours as were his due. His services as one of the 

 first rank were recognised, however, by the many 

 societies and institutions of which he was a member 

 of council and honorary member, and from which he 

 received so many medals and other marks of appreci;i- 

 tion. Among other awards, he received gold medals 

 from the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Institu- 

 tion of Mining and Metallurgy, and the Iron and 

 Steel Institute, to the latter of which he contributed 

 a series of most important papers. 



.After leaving the School ot Mines in 1853, he studied 

 for three years at the Freiburg Mining .\cademy, and 

 in 1855 was appointed assistant geologist to the 

 Geological Survey of Great Britain. 



His first work abroad extended from 1858 to 1863, 

 when, as geologist to the North American Boundan- 

 Commission, he gained immense experience in 

 accurate surveying and geological work, and laid the 

 foundation for the careful discrimination and accuracy 

 which characterised all his later work. 



From 1864 to 18S8, his professional and govern- 

 mental work took him to most parts of the world 

 except .\ustralasia and his enthusiasm enabled him 

 to gain a store ol 'iiformation on matters other than 

 those relating to his actual work, which his prodigious 

 memory and peculiar ability to employ his knowledge 

 at the right moment rendered available to all who 

 applied to him for help, or delighted those who lis- 

 tendcd to his, often apparently discursive, talk on 

 general subjects. As a professional man and adviser 

 on technical matters, he was pre-eminent in certain 

 circles, but as an author and teacher he, was perhaps 

 better known. He was lecturer on metallurgy at the 

 F'irth College, Sheffield, in 1883, and succeeded Percy 

 as professor of metallurgy at the Ordnance College, 

 W'oolwich, from 1888 to igo6, when he retired from 

 public service, though not from active life. 



It would be useless to attempt any enumeration of 

 the public and governmental positions which he filled, 

 but it may be mentioned that he was examiner in both 

 mining and metallurgy for a prolonged period to the 

 Science and Art Department, an examiner to the 

 Civil Service Commission for Inspectors of Mines, 

 and an outside examiner of students for the Royal 

 .School of Mines of London, and for the Camborne 

 School of Mines. Both these positions, and many 

 others, he occupied until his death. 



His services to science and technology can only be 

 slightly touched upon, but are, to some extent, per- 

 petuated in his works on "Descriptive " and "System- 

 atic Mineralogy" and the "Metallurgy of Iron," in 

 Phillips and Bauerman's "Metallurgy," in the many 

 valuable papers which he read before learned and 

 especially technical societies, in the large number of 

 notes, reviews, &c., which he contributed, often with- 

 out signature, to the Press, and in the reports of juries 

 at most of the important exhibitions. 



Few of the international exhibitions have been 

 carried through without his help, either as advisor 

 or juryman, and he was probably the last living man 

 who had contributed to the literature published by the 

 juries at the close of the great 185 1 exhibition. He 

 was a member of committee and juror, commonly 

 chairman or president, of the mining or metallurgical 

 section, or both, at most of the British and foreign 

 international exhibitions, and one of his latest con- 

 tributions consisted in two important paners, read 

 before the Iron and Steel Institute, on metallurgy and 

 iron and steel at the Franco-British Exhibition, 1908. 



