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American material. His work on the reproductive shoots of 

 the English Cycadean stem Bennett ites gibsonianus, originally 

 described by Carruthers, is especially noteworthy as an example 

 of intensive study combined with rare morphological insight. 

 Papers on the structure of some Conifers from the copper-bearing 

 Permian beds of Ilmenau and Frankenberg, and on Jurassic 

 Gymnosperms collected in Franz- Josef Land by members of the 

 Jackson-Harms worth Expedition in 1894-96, are of special value 

 as elucidating the structural features of genera previously known 

 only as casts or impressions. Count Solms added greatly to our 

 knowledge of recent and fossil calcareous Algge, not only in 

 his text-book, but also in his monograph of the Acetabularieae 

 published by the Linnean Society in 1895, and in other papers. 



His name will long be remembered with gratitude and respect 

 by students of ancient plants; he raised the subject of Palseo- 

 botany to a higher plane, and by his Avritings, as also in no 

 small degree by his enthusiasm and infectious energy, he was 

 the means of attracting many botanists to a branch of the science 

 which had suffered neglect and had been discredited through its 

 treatment at the hands of authors insufficiently equipped with 

 a knowledge of recent plants. Solms-Laubach paid several visits 

 to this country, where he was always a Avelcome guest. He was 

 a man of considerable force of character, cultivated, and endowed 

 with a sense of humour ; a warm-hearted friend ; and an in- 

 vestigator of marked originality, whose work, more especially 

 in the domain of Paleobotany, has had a wider influence than 

 that of many men whose output was larger. [A. C. S.] 



Charles Een^ Zeiller died in Paris on November 27th, 1915, 

 after a long and painful illness, at the age of 68. He was born at 

 Nancy, his father being Ingenieur-en-Chef des Ponts et Chaussees, 

 and his mother a great-granddaughter of the Lorraine artist 

 Guibel, sculptor to King Stanislaus of Poland, Duke of Lorraine. 

 He married in 1877 the sister of Leon Olle-Laprune, the Catholic 

 philosopher and a Member of the Institute, whose religious and 

 philosophical views he shared. 



Prof. Zeiller was a Member of the Institute, Commander of the 

 Legion of Honour, Inspector-General of Mines, and Professor at 

 the Ecolc Nationale Sup6rieure des Mines ; in 1905 he was elected 

 a Foreign Member of the Linnean Society, and of the Geological 

 Society in 1909. Zeiller rarely travelled in other countries than 



