280 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



EDITOKIAL GLEANINGS, 



The death is announced, at Melbourne, of Prof. Sir F. McCoy, who 

 had for the last five-and-forty years made his home in Australia. Prof. 

 McCoy was an able geologist and palaeontologist ; he was Professor of 

 Natural Science in the University of Melbourne, and to him was due the 

 formation of the Melbourne National Museum, which he directed. The 

 well-known publication, ' Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria, or Figures 

 and Descriptions of the living Species of all Classes of the Victorian 

 Indigenous Animals, 1 he commenced in 1878. Twenty decades were pub. 

 lished up to 1890, when the work ceased. 



Prof. Lddwig Buchner died on April 30th last. Biichner's name 

 was once somewhat freely anathematized as that of the author of ' Kraft 

 und Stoff' and ' Natur und Geist,' but he will be best remembered by 

 zoologists in connection with a volume which appeared in an English 

 translation in 1880 under the title of ' Mind in Animals.' He also trans- 

 lated into German Lyell's ' Antiquity of Man,' and published ' Die Dar- 

 winsche Theorie.' 



The death has been announced, at Hull, of Mr. Henry Bendelack 

 Hewetson, surgeon, of Leeds. In the science of natural history he was 

 quite an enthusiast. In 1885 he was elected President of the Leeds 

 Naturalists' Club and Scientific Association, and during that year he 

 obtained from the Corporation the grant of a room in the Municipal 

 Buildings for the housing of the collections and library and holding of 

 meetings of that body. At the close of the year the rules were altered to 

 permit of the re-election of a President for a second year, and he was 

 accordingly made President for the following year. In 1896 he was again 

 elected President, a position which he once more filled in 1897. As Presi- 

 dent he constantly advocated the foundation of a Scientific Institute by .the 

 joint action of the several scientific societies of Leeds, and in 1896 a decided 

 step was taken in this direction, but unfortunately without success. As 

 an ornithologist, Mr. Hewetson recorded several new visitors to our shores, 

 and, in conjunction with other observers, did much good work, especially 

 in regard to the study of migration. He also assisted in the exploration 



