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saw God in nature, repudiating the modern school, which would 

 eliminate the Creator from creation. In private life, Crosse was 

 greatly beloved and esteemed ; though devoted to scientific studies, 

 he took a keen interest in literature, history and political economy 

 and was a lively conversationalist, as well as a ready listener and 

 charming companion. His interest in public events, particularly 

 during the Franco-Prussian war, was manifested during a long series 

 of years, when he repeatedly held the mayoralty of the district of 

 Vernou, in which lies Argeville, an estate which has been in the Crosse 

 family for several generations. His home life was of the happiest; 

 his mother, his wife and four daughters, and a large circle of ever- 

 welcome friends forming delightful and congenial surroundings to a 

 man who was as affectionate as he was studious. In later years a 

 rapid series of domestic afflictions, which he bore with great outward 

 calm, quickly undermined his seemingly robust constitution. 



Two apparently slight accidents brought about the fatal illness 

 which cut him off in the midst of perfect physical and intellectual 

 activity. Even when he knew that death was inevitable he continued 

 to work as had always been his habit and thus for some time succeeded 

 in hiding the fact of his dangerous condition from his own family. 

 Until the last he laboured to set his affairs in order and sought to 

 terminate the work he had still to do. Not long before the end came, 

 he expressed his regret that there would be no one of his name to 

 inherit and profit by the scientific treasures he had amassed. He 

 made arrangements to bequeath to the son of his old friend Paul 

 Fischer, the property as well as the editorship of the Journal de 

 Co/ichyliologie, and on the 7th of August, 1898, he closed a long life 

 of honour and usefulness. 



His devotion to science was completely disinterested; honours 

 came unsought and unasked, but perhaps they were rarer and less 

 distinguished than they might have been had he not been proudly 

 tenacious of his strictly religious and conservative views. His reputa- 

 tion, however, did not suffer, in spite of his exceptional modesty ; 

 he had earned a great name in the scientific world and those who 

 now mourn his loss belong to all nations and all countries. 



Fusi on the Norfolk Coast. — The neighbourhood of Cromer is not at all 

 favourable to the conchologist, and I was agreeably surprised to find on the beach 

 at Sherringham this summer a large number of Fusi, along with the specimens of 

 Euccinum undatum, thrown away by the fishermen in clearing their nets. Fusus 

 antiquus was, of course, most plentiful, but F. gracilis and a smaller species, prob- 

 ably F. propinquus, were also among them. I also secured a very fine Saxicava 

 rugosa embedded in the hardened chalk on the foreshore. — Carleton Greene. 

 {Read before the Society, Nov. 9th, 1898). 



