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connexion of zoology and palaeontology ; this standpoint was steadily 

 followed in his great work on the Echinoids, and he gave a practical 

 expression of his views on this subject by arranging the fossil and 

 recent representatives of this group side by side on the same shelves 

 in the State Museum at Stockholm. 



Both in his own country and abroad, Loven was honoured as a 

 master in natural-history research, and his amiable character and 

 personal kindness endeared him to his colleagues and fellow- 

 Academicians in Stockholm. He was chosen a Corresponding. 

 Member of the Institute of Trance in 1872, a Foreign Correspondent 

 of the Geological Society in 1863, and a Foreign Member in 1882. 

 He was further a Foreign Member of the Eoyal Society, and of 

 the Academies of Berlin and Yienna. And lastly, in 1893, he 

 received the Prussian Order ' Pour le Merite.' l (G. J. H.) 



The Hon. Walter Baldock Durrani Mantell was the eldest 

 son of Dr. Gideon Mantell, F.R.S., E.G.S., the well-known Sussex 

 geologist and discoverer of the Iguanodon. He was born in 

 1820, and left England about 1840 for New Zealand, where he 

 became a man of great public importance, holding the posts of 

 Minister for Native Affairs, Postmaster-General, and Secretary for 

 Crown Lands. He was ever mindful of the interests of the Maoris, 

 and sought to serve them to the utmost of his power. 



In 1847 Mr. Mantell sent home the first remains of Notomis. 

 These were described by Owen as belonging to an extinct form, 

 but two years later, in 1849, Mantell obtained from some sealers 

 on the south coast of Middle Island (now called the South Island), 

 where he was Government Commissioner for the Settlement of 

 Native Claims), a skin together with the skull and some limb-bones- 

 of a Notomis recently hunted down with dogs, and killed and eaten 

 by these men. Not long afterwards another smaller skin was 

 obtained. Both these specimens are preserved in the Natural 

 History Museum. 



The bird was apparently unknown to the Maoris, but there are 

 traditions of a ' Swamp-Hen,' called on the North Island ' Mono/ 

 and in the South ' Takahe,' which may have been the Notomis. 



In 1868 Mantell read a paper before the New Zealand Institute 2 



1 For many of the data in the above notice the writer is indebted to the 

 sympathetic notice of his late colleague by Prof. Gr. Lindstrom in Geol. Foren^ 

 i Stockholm Forhandl. Bd. 17, Haft 6, 1895, pp. 627-638. 



2 Trans. New Zealand Institute, vol. i. 1868. 



