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OBITUARY. 
Turren West was born at Leeds in 1823. He was a son of the 
late Wm. West, F.R.S., the well-known chemist, who founded the 
business now carried 0 on by Harvey and Reynolds. He was educated 
at the Friends’ School, York, and was one of the earliest members 
of its Natural History Society, of which he was the “‘ Polytechnic” 
eurator in 1838. ‘ Polytechnics” then imcluded Zoology, and he 
set up ea several skeletons, which are still in the school- 
muse r leaving school, he studied for a doctor, but, we 
pales; never Gk his medical degree. He removed to London 
where for many years he was looked upon as the best illustrator of 
rag a books, the best known being Smith’s Synopsis of the 
h Diatomacea, 1858-1856. Towards the latter a a his life 
his health failed, and he was obliged to give up work. 
residence at Frensham, March 19th, 1891. Tuffen West was a 
Fellow of the Linnean Society, to which he was elected in 1861, 
but his deafness a him from a part in its meetings. 
MBURGK, who had been for a rter of a 
century Director of the Adelaide metnnte Garden, died suddenly at 
the end of last was born at Freiburg on the 5th of 
of his b 
the Adelaide Garden, of — the first edition appeared in 1871 
and his Annual Reports of the Gardens bear testimony to the 
activity which he Seplaret in their management. His publications 
In 1876 he is 
Guiana—an i iidvontiing account of the forks Expedition in 
1842 under the command of his potiors to which he was attached 
as naturalist on behalf of the Prussian Government. 
lections formed by the two brothers on n this expedition are in various 
herbaria, and were described by Mr. Bentham ; and a valuable col- 
Department of the British Museum. The Botanical Reminiscences con- 
tains descriptions of new species; Dr. Schomburgk’s most important 
soomemeeon 10 to Botany, however, is the Synopsis of the Flora of 
Guiana, published in his Reisen in Britisch Guiana, 1848. 
Perer Marti Duncan, F.R.S., died on May 28th, in his sixty- 
seventh year. His name is best known in connection with echino- 
derms and corals, as well as with geology, of which he was Emeritus 
Professor in King’s College, London. He edited the third edition 
of the Micrographic Dictionary from the letter H, and in earlier life 
devoted much attention to Botany; he contributed ‘ Observations on 
the Pollen-tube’ to the Proceedings a the Botanical Society of Edin- 
burgh in we Paras edie nm the histology of the repro- 
