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occnrrence of this mineral in Great Britain has not, so far as he is 

 aware, been observed up to the present. 



May I point out that Orthite was reported from the granite of 

 Criflfel (which is close to Dr. Flett's first locality) as early as 185S. 

 It is mentioned in Greg & Lettsom's book, which is of course the 

 standard work of reference for British localities, and is referred to 

 in all the larger manuals of Mineralogy, e.g. Dana's. 



Since the discovery in Kirkcudbrightshire by Dr. Heddle, many 

 additional localities have been recorded by the same energetic 

 investigator. Without attempting to give an exhaustive list of the 

 localities published, I may mention Aboyne, Anguston, Tilquilly, 

 and Badnagauch, in Aberdeenshire ; and Lairg and Tongue, in 

 Sutherland. In the last edition of the " Encyclopsedia Britannica " 

 vpill be found figures of Orthite from Boat of Garten and from 

 Urquhart. 



It will thus be seen that the occurrence of this mineral in Scotland 

 is already well established, and that Orthite has a considerable 

 geographical range. Many more localities will no doubt be given 

 in Professor Ileddle's forthcoming work on the Mineralogy of 

 Scotland, to which mineralogists are now looking forward with 

 much interest. James Curkie. 



Labkfield, Goldenacre, Edinburgh. 

 October 3, 1898. 



OBITTJ^A^E-^Z". 



JOSEPH CHARLES HIPPOLYTE CROSSE. 



Born 1826. Died 7th August, 1898. 



Dr. n. Crosse, the celebrated conchologist, was born at Paris in 

 1826, and from 1861 was co-editor of the Journal de Conckyliologie 

 with the late Dr. Paul Fischer, whom he has not long survived. 

 His sole palseontological paper was written in conjunction with 

 Fischer, and treats of some fossil land moUusca from Madagascar ; 

 but no man could write, as he did, between 300 and 400 papers on 

 mollusca, mostly descriptive of new exotic forms, without producing 

 work of considerable interest to palceontologists as well. He died at 

 Paris, 7th August, 1898. 



FELIX BERNARD. 

 Born 1863. Died August, 1898. 



By the death of M. Felix Bernard, of the Paris Museum, science 

 loses another brilliant malacologist. His " Elements de Paleonto- 

 logie," published in 1895, is well known ; hut his researches into 

 the morphology of the hinge in the Pelecypoda mark a new era, and 

 will help materially towards the foundation of a classification of that 

 group that shall prove acceptable to the palaeontologist as well as tlie 

 conchologist. His work was marked by an amount of exactitude 

 and care that one would fain see more widely imitated, and we are 

 therefore glad to learn that the suinmarjr of the results of his 

 observations, which has been left in a fit state for publication, is to 

 appear shortly in the Annales des Scimces naturelles. 



