Obituary — Professor Igino Cocchi. 47 



PROFESSOR IGINO COCCHI, 



For. CoiT. Geol. Soc. Lond. 



BOEN 1828. Died 1913. 



We regret to record the death of the veteran Italian fjeologist, 

 Professor Igino Cocchi, of the Museum of "Natural History, Florence, 

 Italy. Born at Terrarosia, in the Valdi Magra (province of Massa) in 

 1828, he at first devoted himself to literary studies, especially Latin 

 literature, afterwards to chemistry, anatomy, and botany, and finally 

 to mineralogy and geology, notably palaeontology and stratigraphy. 

 Having graduated at the University of Pisa, he completed his studies 

 abroad, especially at Paris and London. Later on he gave to the 

 town of Florence his collections, which formed the nucleus of an 

 important palaeontological collection. 



Returned to Pisa, he was for some time assistant to MM. Savi and 

 Meneghini ; he collaborated with Cont. A. Spada and others in the 

 reorganization of their collections ; and finally was appointed Professor 

 of Geology and Mineralogy at the E. Istituto di Studi Superiori in 

 Florence. 



He founded the Alpine Club of Florence, and in 1867, under the 

 Minister of Agriculture (M. Cordova and afterwards M. Broglio), 

 established the Reale Comitato Geologico.^ He was not a prolific 

 writer ; only a dozen papers stand to his credit in the Eoyal Society 

 Catalogue, and some twenty or so separate memoirs. 



DR. ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE, 



O.M., LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., Etc. 



Born January 8, 1823. Died November 7, 1913. 



The closing year (1913) has borne away another of the great 

 naturalists of the nineteenth century, whose researches and writings 

 have so profoundly influenced biological science, and opened up for 

 us entirely new conceptions of life both past and present. 



Alfred Eiissel Wallace Avas born at TJsk, Monmouthshire, on 

 January 8, 1823; his family was not Welsh but Scottish in origin. 

 His father, a man of literary tastes, was a briefless barrister with 

 a family of nine children, of whom Alfred was the youngest but 

 one. The future naturalist left school at 14, and from that time set 

 himself to read Mungo Park, Rohinson Crusoe, Gulliver'' s Travels, and 

 later Lyell's Geology, Darwin's Journal of a Naturalist, Humboldt's 

 'Travels, The Vestiges of Creation, etc. His parents intended he 

 should become a land surveyor and architect, but JSature designed 

 him for a traveller and naturalist, and Dame ^Nature as usual 

 prevailed. He practised surveying for some time in tlie Midlands 

 and in Wales. Later on he was drawing master at the Collegiate 

 School, Leicester. Here he became acquainted with Henry Walter 

 Bates, and this proved the turning-point in his career. Bates, like 

 Wallace, was born to be a naturalist, and the two decided to go in 

 company to the Tropics to study animal life and make collections. 

 They sailed from London in 1848. Wallace spent tlie next four and 

 a half years collecting birds in South America. Returning home in 



^ From Gubernati's Diet. Internal. Ecrivans du Jour. 



