76 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
OBITUARY. 
Francts WaLker.—An exception to the precedent of speakin 
well of the dead is offered by the Entomologist’s Monthly Maga- 
zine in its obituary notice of the late Francis Walker as an ento- 
mologist. And we who have written o alker’s work, after 
having examined his material in the British Museum Collection, 
in the ialsemlteists Monthly Magazine says, and as we had pre- 
viously pointed out, with the authorities in — British Museum 
wh se 
ace gives their authority, their toca is ais to Mr. John 
Edward Gray, to whom science is so widely indebted that this 
from further obloq the ends of science furthered and the author 
Monaa atone amply for their mistake. Private 
collectors, who have Mr. Walker’s types, would heartily join, 
do ubtless, in a work which would be to their advantage, and a mis 
we have ever eid’ n be cee as re ecting personally up 
gentleman, whose cour hay and the extent of whose erie labors 
, ion. GROTE 
w Lanxester.—Dr. La ae well known ras his zoolog 
ical publications, died October 30th, at the age of sixty. 
elected a fellow of the Royal Society i in 1 TSS. For eighteen year 
he has edited, in conjunction with Mr. Busk, the Quar terly Journ 
of Microscopic Science. 
r. Taomas ANpDERSON, late Professor of Chemistry in the Unt 
arises of Glasgow, died at Chiswick on the 2d of November. 
e was born in 1819 
Srrk WitriamM Jarp the zoologist, and especially ope 
ished for his Inboeiis in Onuiulons: died oe Sandown, in the 
le of Wight, on the 21st of November, aged 
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