428 Ohituanj — Sir WoUaston Franks. 



and I have to suffer for their sins and misfortunes in failing to examine 

 or understand Hisinger's type. It is to be hoped that we shall not 

 have to suffer more in this or any other respect by the labours of the 

 new " very competent palaeontologist " to whom Mr. Marr refers. 



But with regard to the right or wrong determination of this 

 species of Trinucleus I can speak with a very much freer conscience 

 than Mr. Man-, for the genus so far seems conspicuous by its 

 absence from the Keisley Limestone (as I have stated in my paper 

 Avhich Mr. Marr criticizes), and therefore I have had no question 

 of its specific identification to decide for myself in this case. 

 Mr, Marr, therefore, appears to have been singularly unlucky in 

 his choice of a weapon with which to attack my conclusions, and 

 it is a pity his solicitude for the readers of this Magazine has led 

 him to omit his criticisms on the " many statements " and " questions 

 of detail " in my paper with which he disagrees. 



F. R. CowPER Eked. 

 Cambridge, August 16, 1897. 



OBITTJ.A.ia-^. 



SIR AUGUSTUS WOLLASTON FRANKS, K.C.B., ETC. 



BoEN 1826. Died May 21, 1897. 



SiE Augustus Wollaston Franks, K.C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S., 

 Pies. S. A., F.G.S., Trustee of the British Museum, late Keeper 

 of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and of Ethnography at the 

 British Museum, was born at Geneva in 1826, and educated at Eton 

 and Trinity College, Cambridge, taking his M.A. degree in 1852. 

 His taste for the beautiful in works of art, and his appreciation 

 of the niceties, peculiarities, and fantasies of artists, whether the 

 results were produced with the inspiration of genius or by 

 handicraft and labour, led him to collect largely in each department 

 of artistic work, and fortunately his ample means enabled him to do so. 

 With munificent liberality he gave many valuable collections to the 

 National Museum at Bloomsbury. It was thus that, not only theoreti- 

 cally, but practically and personally, he was acquainted with the 

 extensive and many-sided collections of antiquities and ethnographic 

 exhibits under his keepership. He was not a mere ofiScial custodian, 

 but a cultured connoisseur, and a high-class authority on all points 

 connected with the scientific and historical aspects of the materials or 

 collections in his charge. Necessarily his study of medigeval remains 

 kept him in touch with those of prehistoric age in the British 

 Collection which was under bis care ; and, indeed, of these there are 

 many objects of human workmanship dating from extremely early 

 times. Contemporary with these were similar productions in 

 European and other countries. These are largely represented in the 

 British Museum by the " Christy Collection," which Sir Wollaston 

 Franks augmented by successive gifts of similar well-assorted 

 examples from many localities. Indeed, this notable department in 

 the Museum well deserves now to be called the " Christy-Franks 

 Collection." 



