432 Obituary — Henry R. Knipe. 



1900 ("Sur les Fouilles de 1899 de Debris de Vertebres dans les 

 Depots Permiens de la Russie du ISTord," with 5 plates of photo- 

 graphs of the excavations). In 1901 he made a more precise com- 

 munication to the French Academy of Sciences (" Sur la decouverte, 

 dans les depots permiens superieurs du nord de la Russie, d'line flore 

 glossopterienne et de reptiles Pariasaurics et Dicynodon,^^ Comptes 

 Eendus, 4 Mars, 1901). 



With much trouble Professor Amalitsky engaged and trained some 

 skilled masons to extricate his fossil skeletons from the intractable 

 matrix in which they were embedded, and more than one iinfortu- 

 nately succumbed to the effect of the peculiar siliceous dust which 

 the work produced. At last, however, he secured a goodly series of 

 specimens ready for study, and when I saw the collection at Warsaw, 

 in 1903 he had already mounted six tine skeletons of Fariasaurus, 

 one of the Theriodont Inostransevia, and a large number of important 

 pieces of Dicynodonts and Labyrinthodonts. Photographs of some 

 of these were published in Sir Ray Lankester's Extinct Animals 

 (London, 1905), and plaster casts of a few characteristic specimens 

 were given by Professor Amalitsky to the British Museum in 1913. 

 Professor and Mrs. Amalitsky visited the British Museum several 

 times during the progress of their work, but unfortunately the new 

 duties at the Warsaw Polytechnic involved much distraction, and 

 when I last met the Professor in Loudon in 1912 he told me he had 

 abandoned all hope of being ^ble to describe the collection himself, 

 and proposed shortly to send one of his students to the British 

 Museum to make himself competent for the task. The War unfortu- 

 nately disarranged this plan, and it is sad to realize that Professor 

 Amalitsky will not now see the fruition of his labours. 



Professor Amalitsky was a single-minded student beloved by all 

 who knew him, and while lamenting his premature loss to science, 

 his friends will tender their heartfelt sympathy to the amiable help- 

 mate who was his constant companion in research. 



A. Smith Woodwakd. 



HENRY ROBERT KNIPE, F.L.S., F.G.S. . 

 Born 1855. Died July 26, 1918. 



We regret to record the death of Mr. Henry 11. Knipe, who devoted 

 much time and labour to the popularization of the study of extinct 

 animals in this country. With the aid especially of the Staff of the 

 British Museum, and utilizing its collections and library, he 

 attempted to portray the animals of the past as they appeared wlien 

 living, and, sparing no expense, he employed the most skilled artists 

 to carry out his plans. Amonp; tliose w^ho produced his restorations 

 may be mentioned Mr. John Smit and Miss Alice B. Woodward. 

 His earliest efforts were published as a series of plates illustrating 

 a long poem named Nebula to Man (London, 1905). More recently 

 a still finer series of restorations, chiefly by Miss Woodward, was 

 issued in his more systematic work in prose, Evolution in the Past 

 (London, 1912). Apart from his scientific studies Mr. Knipe's 

 interests were wide and varied, and by his death Tunbridge Wells 

 loses one of its most esteemed citizens and most generous 

 philanthropists. 



