48 Ohituary—Arthur Vaughan. 
Long before I had personally met him, his work, so deep, so wide, 
so balanced, so exceptionally thorough, had proclaimed him to me as 
the master paleobotanist of our time. Professor Seward has referred 
to his magnificent memoir on the fossil flora of Tonkin: it is, 
I think, the most perfect piece of paleobotanical work extant—the 
most perfect in not only containing conclusions of far-reaching and 
profound significance, but in being the freest from the minor defects 
of misapprehensions, ‘of carelessnesses, misquotations, and incomplete 
or incorrect references which are present in nearly all work and 
abound in some. 
It was on visiting Professor Zeiller in Paris, however, that the full 
extent of his work became apparent tome. The wonderful collection 
of fossil plants which he had brought together and so intimately 
knew is, in some respects, unsurpassed and is invaluable to students. 
Then, too, Professor Zeiller held a unique position in relation to 
practical mining, and was the guide, philosopher, and friend of 
Government Departments and coal-miners in a way which is almost 
unimaginable in this country, where palzobotanists are held in little 
honour and are put to little practical use. His prescience, based on 
detailed paleeobotanical knowledge, saved his country many tens of 
thousands of pounds. 
But surpassingly in Paris did the enchanting personality of the 
great man become apparent. Unique were his cenerosity, his sincerity, 
his aristocratic and beautiful courtesy and heipfulness towards the 
younger workers, at whose service he placed the whole storehouse of 
his profound and well-balanced knowledge. Even in Berlin, where 
I have heard nearly every other paleobotanist roundly abused, Zeiller 
—Frenchman though he was—was spoken of with affection and 
respect. 
It is due only to the fact that Professor Zeiller worked in the 
-* Cinderella’ science. of paleobotany instead of in some popular and 
widely respected science like chemistry that his death is not universally 
hailed by the general public as the irreparable loss it is. To us who 
knew and loved him, as to his colleagues all over the world, no one 
can replace René Zeiller. 
Marte C. Sores, 
Lecturer in Palzeobotany, University College, Roden 
14 WELL WALK, 
HAMPSTEAD HEATH, N.W. 
December 10, 1915. 
(SpSneAGoyya IS, N ee 
ARTHUR VAUGHAN, M.A., D.Sc., F.G.S., 
Lecrurer In GEroLocy oF THE University or OxrorD. 
We regret to record the death of Dr. Arthur Vaughan, which 
occurred on Friday, December 8, 1915, at 315 Woodstock Road, 
Oxford, in his 47th year. We hope to give a notice of his geological 
work in the next number of the Magazine. 
