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the rhizopods, on which he published that same year a magnificent 

 monograph. " Eormerly," he said, " every fossil bone found in the 

 States came to me, for nobody else cared to study such things. 

 But now Professors Marsh and Cope, with long purses, offer money 

 for what used to come to me for nothing, and in that respect I 

 cannot compete with them. So now, as I get nothing, I have gone 

 back to my microscope and my rhizopods and make myself busy 

 and happy with them." I do not suppose Dr. Leidy ever made an 

 enemy or lost a friend. A more tender, gentle, helpful nature could 

 not be lodged in human form. 



Dr. Leidy's achievements in science were fully acknowledged by 

 his contemporaries. He was elected into innumerable Academies 

 and learned societies in his own country and all over the world. 

 We made him one of our Poreign Correspondents in 1863, and a 

 Foreign Member three years later. In 1884 he was awarded our 

 Lyell Medal. Among his later honours one of the most distin- 

 guished and appropriate was the Cuvier Medal bestowed upon him 

 by the Academy of Sciences of Paris in 1888. The last time he 

 came to Europe was in 1889, but his stay here was shortened and 

 saddened by the serious illness of his wife. His own health began 

 to give way not long thereafter. He struggled on, however, kept 

 his post and did his duty with the same quiet devotion and courage 

 which had marked him all through life. He died on 30th April, 

 1891, amid the universal sorrow of all who knew him, and leaving a 

 name beloved and honoured wherever science has made its way. 



Another serious blank in the list of our Foreign Members has 

 been caused by the death of Professor C. Feedinand voir Eomee. 

 This illustrious geologist and most estimable man was born at 

 Hildersheim, in Hanover, on the 5th of January, 1818. Educated at 

 Gottingen, he was intended for the legal profession, which was that 

 of his father, who became CounciUpr of the High Court of Justice. 

 But before the close of his academic career he began to attend 

 lectures on natural science and was gradually drawn away by 

 them, so that he abandoned the pursuit of the law and went to the 

 University of Berlin to study science. He took the degree of Ph.D. 

 there in 1842 and chose as the subject of his Latin thesis a disqui- 

 sition on the fossil Astartse. He was now fairly launched upon his 

 career as a geologist and palaeontologist. He first betook himself 

 to the study of the so-called ' Transition formation ' of Ehineland and 

 publish ed a book about it in 1844. The following year he enlarged 



