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These memoirs indicated the direction in which, for the most part, 

 he devoted the labour of all his after-years of active life. In 1843 he 

 was elected a Member of this Academy, and in March, 1844, he was 

 elected to the Professorship of Botany in the University of Dublin, 

 succeeding Dr. "William Allman. 



From the year 1843, when he first commenced to publish, until 

 but some five years ago, a continuous succession of contributions to 

 Biological Science proceeded from his pen, papers on land, freshwater, 

 and marine MoUusca, on Insecta and Crustacea, on Infusoria. Nor 

 were Botanical subjects overlooked. Never a systematic Botanist, yet 

 he described some new genera and species of freshwater Algae, and 

 investigated the growth and structure of the Starch granule. 



A full List of his Papers will be found recorded in the Royal 

 Society's Catalogue of Scientific Papers. 



His chief delight was, however, assuredly in the study of the Hy- 

 drozoa, and by his splendid Memoirs on these (mostly illustrated by his 

 pencil) will the name of George James Allman ever be remembered in 

 the Annals of Natural History. The first of these works " On the 

 Tubularian Hydroids " was published in two parts by the Ray 

 Society, which were issued for the years 1 869 and 1870, with 23.plates. 

 Then came " Report on the Hydroids of the Gulf Stream, collected by 

 Pourtales," and published as one of the Memoirs of the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College in 1877. Lastly, the 

 Report on the Hydroida collected during the Expedition of the 

 " Challenger," Part i. with 20 plates, published in 1883, and Part ii. 

 with 40 plates in 1888. These works stand in the very first rank of 

 Zoological Publications. 



Nor must, even in a brief review like this of a long life's labours, 

 be omitted all reference to his first Monograph " on the Freshwater 

 Polyzoa," published in 1857, and dedicated to the Rev. Dr. T. Romney 

 Robinson " in memory of the hours passed under his Presidency 

 at the Meetings of the Royal Irish Academy." This splendidly 

 illustrated volume was published in 1857. 



Allman took his M.D. degree in Spring, 1847, For twelve years 

 (1844-55) he delivered the Summer Session Lectures on Botany in 

 the Medical School of Dublin University. In 1856 he was elected to 

 the Regius Professorship of Natural History in the University of 

 Edinburgh, which post he resigned in 1870. Of the various honours 



