JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 317 



Obituary. — ^^Mr. Andrew Garrett. 



Mr. Andrew Garrett, the celebrated conchologist, died at 

 his residence, Huahine, Society Island, on the ist of November, 

 1887, in the 65th year of his age. For some months past he 

 had suffered from cancer in the face, which brought about his 

 death. Mr. Garrett was the third child in a family of fourteen, 

 and was born on the 9th of April, 1823, in Beaver-street, Albany, 

 New York, U.S.x\. His mother was one Joanna Van Nean 

 Campaneaux, a native of Belgium, of good education, and speak- 

 ingseveral languages; his father being Francis Garrett, a Canadian. 

 Both parents lived to old age, the mother attaining seventy-two 

 years, and the father eighty-four. The early life of Andrew 

 Garrett was spent in Vermont State, where hevery soon manifested 

 a decidedscientific turn of mind. On one occasion at eight years 

 of age he left home without warning to visit a museum some hundred 

 miles away, which having accomplished he returned home again 

 in safety. He had a great fondness for travel, and to satisfy the 

 longing he went to sea at the age of 18. As a shell collector 

 he made his first acquaintance with the South Pacific in 1848, 

 and in 1852 adopted that island-studded ocean as his special 

 field of research. Since that time Mr. Garrett has visited 

 almost every island of note in the South Pacific, spending con- 

 siderable time in each group. His studies not only embraced 

 the mollusca, but also birds, fishes, botany, &c. For one period 

 of ten years he was professionally engaged in the interests of 

 the Goddefroy Museum, Hamburg, during which time was 

 published Andrew Garrett's " Fische der Siidsee," edited by Dr. 

 Albert Giinther, of the British Museum. Mr. Garrett was also 

 for a time associated with Prof. Agassiz. In addition to yisiting 

 and residing in every group of islands of the South Pacific, Mr. 

 Garrett explored many parts of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts 

 of South America, the East and West Indies, the Sandwich 

 Islands, &c. His diligence and knowledge soon established 

 him as an authority amo.ngst conchologists. Mr. Garrett's 



