48 Ohituan/ — Profeasor Dewalque — Professor Otistalef. 



PROFESSOR GILLES-JOSEPH-GUSTAVE DEWALQUE, 



For. Memb. Gkol. Soc. Lond. 



BoRX December 2, 182G. Died November 3, 1905. 



We regret to record the death, in his 79th year, of our valued 

 friend and frequent correspondent of many years past, Monsieur 

 Gustave Dewalque, Professor Emeritus of the University of Liege, 

 founder and Ilonorai'y Secretary-General of the Societe Geologique 

 de Belgique, Membre de I'Academie Royal de Belgique, and of 

 many other Learned Societies in Belgium, Moscow, Vienna, 

 Luxembourg, etc., etc., Commandeur de I'Ordre de Leopold, and 

 Officier de I'Ordre des Sts. Maurice et Lazare. He was born at 

 Stavelot 2nd December, 1826, and died at Liege 3rd November^ 

 1905. 



Professor Dewalque contributed various papers to this Magazine 

 in 1875, 1878, 1895, and 1899, and has always taken a very lively 

 interest in English and Belgian geology. He was elected a Foreign 

 Correspondent of the Geological Society of London in 1871, and 

 a Foreign Member in 1880. We hope to give a full account of his 

 scientific work later on. 



PROFESSOR EMILE OUSTALET, 

 Museum d'Histoire Natukelle, Paris. 



BoRX August 24, 1844. Died October 23, 1905. 



Monsieur Emile Oustalet, who had succeeded Professor 

 Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards as Professor of Mammalogy and 

 Ornithology at the Paris Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, passed away 

 on October 23rd, aged 61. Born at Montbeliard, 24th August, 

 1844, he has been on the staff of the Museum for 32 years. 

 Professor Oustalet is chiefly known as an ornithologist, but has 

 done also some good work on fossil insects. A list of his publica- 

 tions on the latter subject is here appended : — 



" Recherches sur les lusectes fossiles des Terrains tertiaires de la France " : Part I, 

 ' lusectes fossiles de rAuvergne,' pp. 178, 6 plates ; Part II, ' Insectes 

 fossiles d'Aix en Provence,' pp. 347, 6 plates. (Annales des So. Geol., etc., 

 vol. ii. No. 3, and vol. v. No. 2. 1870-4.) 

 " Sur les Insectes fossiles." Paris. (Soc. Philom. Bull., viii, 1872, pp. 59-64.) 

 " Sur quelques especes fossiles de I'orili'e des Thyanopteres." Paris. (Soc. Philom. 

 Bull., X, 1878, pp. 20-27.) 



Errata. — In Messrs. Dakyns & Greenly's article, December 

 Number, 1905, p. 542, line 21, for " overlie the felspar of Moel 

 Meirch," read " overlie the felstone," etc. — In Dr. Andrews' article, 

 1st paragraph, p. 562, for P. minus read F. minor. 



