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important conclusions as to the phylogeny of many groups of 

 mammals. 



In a paper entitled ' Ueber die Herkunft unserer Thierwelt : 

 eine zoogeographische Skizze,' 1867, Riitimeyer gives a masterly 

 account of the distribution of the mammalia, showing the relations 

 of the fossil faunas to one another and to recent forms. It is a 

 testimony to his sagacity that the great additions to our knowledge 

 of this subject have confirmed most of his conclusions, and have 

 rendered very few unteDable. 



He was elected a Foreign Correspondent of the Geological Society 

 of London in 1877, and a Foreign Member in 1882. 



Up to the time of his death Prof. Eiitimeyer maintained a lively 

 interest in all scientific researches, and carried on his correspondence 

 to the last. He died at Basel on November 26th, 1895. 



The Yen. Archdeacon Robert W. Browne, M.A., Prebendary of 

 St. Paul's, was elected a Fellow of the Society in 1833, and died at 

 Wells on December 12th, 1895, in his 87th year. 



The Rev. Lester Lester, who was elected a Fellow of the 

 Geological Society in 1856, died on December 26th, 1895, at his 

 residence, Langton Maltravers Rectory, Wareham, Dorset. 



Hugh Miller, F.R.S.E., was born on July 15th, 1850. He 

 received his scientific education at the Royal School of Mines, being 

 nominated thereto by Sir Roderick Murchison. Bearing the same 

 name as his distinguished father, the author of ' The Testimony of 

 the Rocks,' ' The Old Red Sandstone,' etc., Mr. Hugh Miller in- 

 herited with the name a taste for geological pursuits. He joined 

 the Geological Survey in 1874, and was elected a Fellow of the Geo- 

 logical Society in the same year. Labouring at first among the 

 Carboniferous Rocks and Glacial Drifts of Northumberland, he was 

 subsequently transferred to the Geological Survey of Scotland, and 

 worked at the Old Red Sandstone around Cromarty, rendered 

 classic by the researches of his father. Later on he mapped 

 portions of the Ancient Schists, Old Red Sandstone, and Drifts of 

 Eastern Sutherland. Mr. Hugh Miller was taken ill at Lairg in 

 December last, and died at his Edinburgh residence on January 8th, 

 1896, in his 46th year. 



He was author of the picturesquely-written book entitled ' Land- 

 scape Geology/ and of papers on River Action and Glacial Phe- 

 nomena. Among the more important of these papers the following 



