THE CONCHOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 



Late Mr. C. f\ Ancey. 



The following is a short sketch of the late Mr. C. F. Ancey, 

 sent, on my request, from Mr. Gabriel Ancey, his brother, of 

 Marseilles. Mr. C. F. Ancey was an earnest student of con- 

 chology who devoted all the time that could be spared from his 

 official service to the study of the shells and who was one of our 

 longest correspondents. 



On hearing the death of Mr. Ancy from Mrs. Ancey, we sent 

 a letter of condolence to her at once, asking at the same time to be 

 favoured with his portrait and his biography, of which unfort- 

 unately the former was not sent. 



In commemoration of our honorable friend, and a conchologist 

 to whom we were in long conmmunication we have put here Mr. 

 Gabriel Ancey 's letter in full. 



Albeit Mr. Ancey (Cesar-Felix) was born at Marseilles (the 

 15th of November i860), he was, by his grandfather, from the 

 Eastern French province, whose he retained the physical as well 

 as moral characteristics. He studied under the Jesuits in 

 Avignon, took his decree in letters, sciences, and Jaw, and was, in 

 1889, named the Algerian administration. His longest residence 

 was at Dra-el-Mizan in the Jurjura mountains, whence he had 

 just departed for the post of administor at Mascara, when an un- 

 foreseen illness brought him to death upon the 10th of October, 

 1906. He was married and laid a widow and two young children. 



He had a genial mind and a most commendable ingenuous- 

 ness. As for the intellectual capacities, he understood quickly, 

 remembered marvellously, worked easily. His first conchologi- 

 cal writings are from 1879 and (never gathered) would make a big 

 volume 700 pages if no more. Doctrinally, he was a temperated 

 Evolutionist of the Bourguignet's line, whose following the exam- 

 ples he multiplicated the species, so that he raised protests from 

 the other school, a bit troubled in its habits. Be that as it may, he 

 was indisputingly a might}' observer, a clever nomenclator, and 

 a most honourable man. 



