390 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



OBITUARY. 



Professor Charles Stewart, F.R.S. 



Charles Stewart, an apparently light-hearted zoologist who 

 neither wore his sorrows on his sleeve nor his scientific attainments 

 as a cloak of righteousness, passed away, to the real regret of many 

 sincere friends, on September 27th. He was born in Plymouth 

 sixty-seven years ago, and has held the office of Conservator of the 

 Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons for the past twenty-three 

 years. His scientific career has been varied and important. After 

 studentship at St. Bartholomew's Hospital he was qualified as a 

 member of the Royal College of Surgeons in the year 1862. Admitted 

 as a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1866, he became President of 

 that Society from 1890 to 1894. He was a Fellow and Vice-President 

 of the Royal Microscopical Society ; Treasurer of the Anatomical 

 Society of Great Britain and Ireland from its foundation to the year 

 1891 ; Fullerian Professor of Physiology at the Royal Institution 

 from 1894 to 1897 ; admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1896 ; 

 and was also an LL.D. of Aberdeen University. We first met Pro- 

 fessor Stewart when he was Curator of the Museum of St. Thomas's 

 Hospital, now many years ago, and subsequently not infrequently 

 met him at the meetings of the Entomological Society of London. 

 He had a love of all things zoological, and his visits to the British 

 Museum (also not infrequent) were for the identification of the most 

 diverse creatures. He thus gave the Museum of the Surgeons a more 

 general zoological character, especially illustrating our conceptions of 

 organic evolution. 



But he was a man of many parts and many interests — equally 

 at home in his museum or at the Savage Club ; he was the most 

 genial of all Professors, and the most learned of all the really genial 

 men we ever met. He has left many friends and a deserved reputa- 

 tion. 



