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  OBITUARY 
  NOTICES. 
  

  

  The 
  Rev. 
  E,. 
  Boog 
  Watsoij-, 
  LL.T)., 
  a 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  Malacological 
  

   Society 
  since 
  its 
  formation 
  in 
  1893, 
  died 
  on 
  June 
  13tli, 
  1910, 
  in 
  his 
  

   eiglity-seventh 
  year. 
  

  

  Although 
  not 
  a 
  contributor 
  to 
  the 
  Society's 
  " 
  Proceedings 
  " 
  he 
  was 
  

   well 
  known 
  to 
  all 
  as 
  the 
  author 
  of 
  the 
  classic^^^or^ 
  on 
  the 
  Scaphopoda 
  and 
  

   Gasteropoda 
  collected 
  ly 
  H.M.S. 
  ^'' 
  Challenger'^'' 
  during 
  the 
  years 
  1873-6. 
  

   This 
  woi'k 
  consisted 
  of 
  746 
  quarto 
  pages 
  of 
  text, 
  illustrated 
  with 
  

   50 
  plates, 
  and 
  at 
  once 
  proclaimed 
  the 
  author 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  careful 
  

   and 
  accurate 
  writers 
  of 
  his 
  day. 
  In 
  the 
  preparation 
  of 
  it 
  he 
  spent 
  

   many 
  months 
  comparing 
  his 
  specimens 
  with 
  the 
  valuable 
  collections 
  

   at 
  the 
  British 
  Museum, 
  and 
  subsequently 
  visited 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  museums 
  

   in 
  Norway, 
  France, 
  and 
  Switzerland; 
  in 
  fact, 
  he 
  left 
  nothing 
  undone 
  

   which 
  would 
  help 
  towards 
  the 
  accuracy 
  and 
  completeness 
  of 
  his 
  work. 
  

   The 
  result 
  was 
  that 
  he 
  left 
  to 
  us 
  a 
  model 
  of 
  carefulness 
  and 
  thorough- 
  

   ness 
  which 
  it 
  were 
  well 
  if 
  some 
  writers 
  had 
  followed. 
  

  

  Although 
  at 
  times 
  his 
  descriptions 
  may 
  be 
  considered 
  too 
  prolonged, 
  

   perhaps, 
  if 
  a 
  fault, 
  it 
  was 
  on 
  the 
  right 
  side, 
  for 
  what 
  is 
  more 
  trouble- 
  

   some 
  and 
  annoying 
  than 
  brief 
  and 
  inadequate 
  diagnoses 
  ? 
  His 
  other 
  

   conchological 
  work 
  was 
  chiefly 
  in 
  connection 
  with 
  the 
  fauna 
  of 
  

   Madeira, 
  where 
  he 
  resided 
  for 
  about 
  ten 
  years. 
  He 
  published 
  nine 
  

   papers 
  dealing 
  with 
  this 
  subject, 
  and 
  in 
  one 
  of 
  them, 
  the 
  last 
  he 
  

   wrote, 
  gave 
  a 
  most 
  valuable 
  list 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  known 
  marine 
  moUusca 
  of 
  

   the 
  islands, 
  together 
  with 
  descriptions 
  of 
  thirty-five 
  new 
  species 
  

   (Journ. 
  Linn. 
  Soc, 
  1897, 
  vol. 
  xxvi, 
  pp. 
  233-329, 
  2 
  pis.). 
  

  

  Highly 
  cultured, 
  a 
  classical 
  scholar, 
  and 
  a 
  most 
  amiable 
  personality, 
  

   the 
  Eev. 
  E,. 
  Boog 
  Watson 
  will 
  be 
  held 
  in 
  pleasant 
  remembrance 
  by 
  

   all 
  those 
  who 
  had 
  the 
  enjoyment 
  of 
  his 
  acquaintance 
  or 
  friendship. 
  

  

  E. 
  A. 
  S. 
  

  

  At 
  the 
  meeting 
  in 
  November 
  last 
  the 
  President 
  referred 
  in 
  the 
  

   following 
  terms 
  to 
  the 
  loss 
  the 
  Society 
  had 
  sustained 
  through 
  the 
  

   death 
  of 
  one 
  of 
  its 
  members. 
  

  

  "It 
  is 
  with 
  deep 
  regret 
  that 
  I 
  have 
  to 
  announce 
  the 
  death 
  of 
  

   Professor 
  Dr. 
  Oscar 
  Boettgek, 
  which 
  took 
  place 
  last 
  September, 
  in 
  

   his 
  sixty-seventh 
  year. 
  Professor 
  Boettger 
  was 
  one 
  of 
  our 
  most 
  

   distinguished 
  foreign 
  members, 
  and 
  had 
  been 
  connected 
  with 
  the 
  

   Malacological 
  Society 
  almost 
  from 
  the 
  time 
  of 
  its 
  foundation 
  in 
  1893. 
  

   The 
  following 
  year, 
  in 
  conjunction 
  with 
  another 
  author, 
  he 
  contributed 
  

   two 
  papers 
  on 
  Chinese 
  land 
  shells, 
  which 
  were 
  published 
  in 
  our 
  

   'Proceedings'. 
  But 
  long 
  previous 
  to 
  this 
  and 
  afterwards 
  he 
  wrote 
  

   many 
  voluminous 
  memoirs 
  on 
  various 
  branches 
  of 
  mollusca, 
  both 
  fossil 
  

   and 
  recent. 
  He 
  gave 
  us 
  some 
  of 
  our 
  earliest 
  knowledge 
  of 
  the 
  Tertiary 
  

   mollusca 
  of 
  Borneo 
  and 
  Sumatra, 
  and 
  he 
  wrote 
  extensively 
  on 
  the 
  

   Tertiary 
  lacustrine 
  shells 
  of 
  the 
  Mayence 
  Basin 
  of 
  Germany. 
  He 
  was 
  

   besides 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  best 
  authorities 
  on 
  fossil 
  and 
  recent 
  Clausilm, 
  and 
  

   his 
  great 
  memoir 
  Clausilien- 
  Studien, 
  published 
  in 
  1877, 
  still 
  forms 
  

  

  