480 Obituary- — Dr. James Hunt. 



Leicester, Leeds, Worcester, Malvern, Taunton, and Cambridge 

 Museum collections ; he also executed numerous plates and wood- 

 cuts. A catalogue (illustrated by himself) of the Cambrian and 

 Silurian fossils in the Woodwardian Museum was one of the last 

 tasks which he undertook, and which remains uncompleted, as does 

 his Monograph on the Trilobites. 



It is difficult to say what combination of official conditions could 

 have been found better suited to him than those in which he was 

 placed. He often pictured the happiness of a post in the British 

 Museum ; but it is doubtful, had he realized his hope, whether his 

 health would have improved. Those who knew him well, will 

 remember how cheerful and light-hearted he was at times ; he was, 

 in many ways, remarkably like a child, fond of boyish athletic 

 sports, a lover of Nature, fond of wild-flowers, and domestic pet 

 animals, which he encouraged his children to keep. Anon he 

 would be fretful and irritable, often without any reasonable cause, 

 proving that the chronic ill-health of which he complained was 

 certainly mental. 



His staunch friends, Murchison and Sedgwick, helped him right 

 manfully throughout, and he had many friends in the West of 

 England and in Scotland, who gladly welcomed him to their homes, 

 and cordially sympathized with him. But though he spoke cheer- 

 fully and hopefully after resigning his post at Jermyn-street, we 

 have his written testimony that he regretted the step he had taken. 



No one, however, who will fairly weigh the amount of valuable 

 work done by Mr. Salter, and the large contributions he has made 

 to our knowledge of the paleozoic rocks and the early life-forms 

 which they contain, will deny that a man of such ability deserved 

 some recognition in the way of pension from Government ; and it is 

 sincerely to be hoped that Mrs. Salter, with her seven children, may 

 at least be granted some small share of the Eoyal bounty, as some 

 acknowledgment of the services rendered to science by her husband. 



Mr. Salter is buried in Highgate Cemetery, the resting-place of 

 several of his fellow -workers in science. 



James Hunt, Ph.D., F.S.A., F.E.S.L., etc. — We regret to have 

 to record the death, on the 29th August, at the early age of thirty- 

 six, of James Hunt, Ph.D., P.S.A., F.E.S.L., founder of the 

 Anthropological Society of London, and its first President, an office 

 he held during five years. Soon after the foundation of the Society 

 in 1863, the deceased, with that spirit of enterprise which dis- 

 tinguished him, established the Anthropological Bevieio, of which he 

 was proprietor and Editor from its commencement to the current 

 number. Whatever may be the future of Anthropology in England, 

 the name of James Hunt will long be remembered as one of the 

 most active and disinterested workers in that branch of science of 

 which he was passionately fond, and in the pursuit of which he died. 



Ereatum. — In the Obituary of Mr. J. Beete Jukes last month, p. 431, the name 

 of Mr. A. Selwyn, his associate in the Survey of North Wales, was accidentally 

 omitted. — Edit. 



