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Although Dr. Waagen's researches led him to regard the broad 

 problems of organic development from a point of view with which, 

 perhaps, a majority of his fellow-workers in science are little in 

 agreement, the great value of his labours will be readily conceded. 

 His careful descriptive work, together with many able and suggestive 

 generalizations, form contributions of high importance to inverte- 

 brate palseoutology. [F. L. K.] 



John Young, LL.D., the Curator of the Hunterian Museum in 

 the University of Glasgow,^ was born in 1823 at Lennoxtown, 

 in the parish of Campsie. When but 10 years old he left school 

 to act as errand-boy at a calico-printer's, in w^hose employ- 

 ment he remained for 26 years. Meanwhile he had spent his 

 leisure-hours in study, stimulated by the Mechanics' Institute, and 

 had given especial attention to geology. In 1855 he was called 

 upon to assist in arranging, for the meeting of the British Asso- 

 ciation at Glasgow, a collection of rocks and fossils from the "West 

 of Scotland. This work, on which he was engaged for five months, 

 brought him under the favourable notice of the scientific men 

 assembled at Glasgow, and led to his being appointed, in 1859, to 

 the Curatorship of the Hunterian Museum, where he worked under 

 the direction of Prof. John Young, M.D. 



His geological researches were carried on chiefly among the 

 'Carboniferous Strata of Scotland, and he did excellent service in 

 collecting and mounting the Microzoa, and in studying the Polyzoa 

 and other fossils. He aided largely in the preparation of the useful 

 ' Catalogue of the Western Scottish Fossils,' which was published 

 at Glasgow in 1876, and he contributed papers to the Transactions 

 of the Glasgow Geological Society, the Geological Magazine, and 

 to our own Journal. 



He joined the Geological Society of London in 1874 ; and in 

 1883 he received an Award from the Murchison Geological Fund, in 

 recognition of his long-continued researches among the Polyzoa and 

 other minute fossil organisms of the Carboniferous Strata of the 

 West of Scotland. He died on March 13th, 1900, aged 77. 



^ We are indebted to an obituary notice by Prof. T. R. Jones in the Geolo- 

 gical Magazine, August 1900, p. 382, for some of the above particulars. 



