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cliiefly for students, v/hich had a wide circulation, and were known 

 as " Galbraith and Hau^hton's Manuals." These dealt with the 

 following subjects : "Euclid," "Plane Trigonometry," "Mathematical 

 Tables," "Mechanics," "Optics," "Hydrostatics," "Tides," "Astro- 

 nomy," " Steam -Engine," "Algebra," and " Aritlimetic." The 

 publication of these Manuals gave rise to the following parodj^ 

 taken from David's lament over Saul and Jonathan : " Galbraith 

 and Haughton were beautiful in their lives ; and in their Manuals 

 they were not divided ! " In 1865, however, Haughton published 

 a Manual of Geologj^, by himself; Longmans and Co., 8vo, pp. 360 

 (see Geol. Mag., Vol. l\, 1865, p. 449). 



Other works were the "Principles of Animal Mechanics," a book 

 of extreme interest and originality, published in 1873, and " Si.\: 

 Lectures on Physical Geography" (1880). Meanwhile, well-merited 

 honours were falling thick and fast on Haughton. In 1853 he was 

 elected a F.G.S., and F.K.S. five years later (1858). He filled the 

 offices of President of the Royal Irish Academy and of the Eoyal 

 Geological Society of Ireland. Oxford conferred upon him the 

 honorary degree of D.C.L. in 1868, and Cambridge followed suit 

 a few years later, in 1880, while Edinburgh added her LL.D. in 

 1884; and that he was the life and soul of many Dublin societies 

 and institutions, need scarcely be said. 



Of Haughton's personal character little need here be stated. He 

 was a general favourite with those who knew him ; and when he 

 rose to speak in public his trenchant manner of dealing with his 

 subject, combined with an overflowing fund of humour, sometimes 

 spiced with sarcasm, at once rivetted attention. In advocating or 

 opposing a cause he was absolutely fearless of persons or of outside 

 opinion, and undoubtedly he exercised great influence in the govern- 

 ment of Trinity College. Those who, like the writer, were some- 

 times in his company at the dinners of the Dublin Geological Club, 

 are not likely to forget the unfailing flow of wit and anecdote which 

 kept the company in a state alternating between delight, amusement, 

 and, it must be added, sometimes horror! In literature the Nodes 

 Amhrosiance of Professor Wilson afford the only parallel. E. H. 



PROF. CONSTANTIN BARON VON ETTINGSHAUSEN. 



Born 1826. Died February 1, 1897. 



The Baron Constantin von Ettingshausen, who was born at 

 Vienna in 1826, and died at Graz on the 1st February of this year, 

 shares with Heer and Saporta the merit of having, more than any 

 other workers, advanced our knowledge of the Fossil Flora of the 

 Tertiary period. This was the chief, although not the exclusive 

 field of his astounding activity, which extended over a period of 

 forty-seven years, from 1849 to 1896. 



He graduated as a Doctor of Medicine in Vienna, beginning his 

 scientific woi'k almost immediately afterwards. After having been 

 for a few years an Assistant in the Geologische Reichsanstalt, he 

 became Professor at the Medical and Surgical Military Academy at 



