PEOCEEDIlirGS OP THE MALACOLOGICAI SOCIETT. 295 



OBITUARY NOTICES. 



Lieut. C. E. Beddome, the Australian conchologist, who became 

 a member of this Society in 1893, was an ardent and capable collector, 

 especiall)^ devoting himself to Australian land- shells and Tasmanian 

 marine moUusca. He published but little himself, the results of his 

 collecting being described by Brazier and Petterd. He gave largely 

 to the British Museum and to the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia, which latter body elected him a corresponding member. 



Georges Berxhelin, a student of the fossil mollusca and foramini- 

 fera of the Paris Basin Tertiaries, had also joined the Society in 1893. 



By the death of Joseph Charles Hippolyte Crosse, not only this 

 Society, but the whole malacological world, has suffered a severe loss. 

 Crosse was born at Paris in 1826, and from 1861 was co-editor of 

 the Journal cle Conchyliologie with the late Dr. Paul Pischer. He 

 was author of some 375 papers on mollusca, mostly descriptive of 

 new exotic forms, besides contributing sections on land mollusca to 

 the "Mission Scientifi que au Mcxiquc " and the " Histoire . . . de 

 Madagascar." He died at Paris, 7th August, 1898. His connection 

 with this Society likewise dates from 1893. 



Mr. C. N. Peal, P.L.S., of Ealing, and Dr. W. Gr. Shepherd were 

 original members of the Society, and both of them enthusiastic 

 collectors. 



Amongst eminent malacologists who, however, did not belong to 

 our body, allusion must be made to : — 



Eelix Bernard (1863-98), of the Musee d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 

 whose researches on the Morphology of the Hinge in Pelecypoda have 

 led to such important results, and whose premature death is much to 

 be lamented. 



A. Everett, whose name will always be associated with Borneo, 

 whence he brought to enrich our collections such wonderful new 

 forms of Biflommatina and Opisthostoma. He had lately extended 

 his researches to other islands of the Eastern Archipelago. 



Dr. Karl Ludwig Eridoline Sandberger (1826-98), the well- 

 known author of "Die Land- und-Siisswasser-Conchylien der Vor- 

 welt," a work which will ever remain a classic for palaeoconchologists. 



Major-Gen. R. G. Woodthorpe, R.E., who, though not a naturalist 

 himself, collected and forwarded from the Siam frontier of Lndia a 

 fine series of shells, many examples of which still remain to be 

 worked out. 



