IN MEMORIAM—FRANCIS ARCHER. 115 
of nature and human nature, which dry specialization and the recording 
of facts, though of the greatest importance to the progress of know- 
ledge, often seems to deny to some of the votaries of science. 
In November 1866, Mr. Archer joined the Liverpool Geological 
Society, of which he continued a member to the last. He acted as 
Treasurer to the Society from 1867 to 1872, and was several times 
offered the Presidential chair, but could never be persuaded to take 
it. He was a member of the council of the Liverpool Biological 
Society, and took an active part in the establishment of a Biological 
Station at Puffin Island. Dr. Herdman informs me that Mr. Archer 
was to have accompanied him and Mr. Isaac Thompson, on the 7th 
March, to examine and report upon a suitable locality in the Isle of 
Man to which to remove the Station, Puffin Island having been 
found inconvenient of access during a considerable part of the year. 
He was most intimately connected with the marine biological work, 
and went on all the dredging trips. His lists—which were nearly 
ready—were to have been laid before the Biological Society at an 
early meeting, and had, indeed, been announced. Dr. Herdman 
also says that he had ‘lately been examining the Mollusca and 
Brachiopoda which I collected last summer in Norway, and was 
actually working here (University College) with me in the laboratory: 
on these specimens just the Wednesday before he took ill.’ 
Entomology was also one of the branches of Natural Science he 
was well up in, and he has done excellent work in collecting, as may 
be seen on reference to Dr. Ellis’s lists published in this Magazine. 
Perhaps the subject in which he of late years took the greatest 
interest was Anthropology. With a view of adding to this branch of 
knowledge he paid a visit to the valley of the Somme, and several times 
to the North-east coast of Ireland and to the West of England. He 
read before the Liverpool Geological Society ‘ Notes on Flint Imple- 
ments from a Raised Beach at Kilroot, Co. Antrim,’ and another 
entitled: ‘Notes on the worked Flints of the Raised Beaches of the 
N.E. coast of Ireland.’ In addition, he gave the Society several 
addresses on similar subjects, which, being from mere notes, 
unfortunately could not be published. In the pages of ‘ Nature’ may 
be found letters on Natural History and Anthropology from his pen. 
He got together a very good private collection, bearing upon the 
history and development of early man. 
Mr. Archer was highly cultured, of a literary turn, and frequently 
reviewed scientific works in the columns of the ‘ Daily Post’; but 
what he has published would give a very restricted notion of the man. 
The writer has known him intimately for over twenty years, and is 
pleased to acknowledge the stimulating influence of his ideas and 
April 1892. 
