1890.] Scientific News. 1109 
The Abbe S. A. Marseul died in Paris, April 16, 1890, in his seventy- 
ninth year. 
Professor Franklin C. Hill, D.Sc., Ph.D., Curator of the E. M. 
Biological Museum, Princeton, died recently of heart-disease. Pro- 
fessor Hill, who was sixty-three years old, was educated at his father’s 
private school in Philadelphia. He also studied medicine there, and 
after graduation entered Harvard, where he studied engineering, gradu- 
ating there. 
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“In loving memory of Frances Evans, daughter of Joseph Phelps 
(of the island of Madeira), born August 21,1826; married John Evans 
July 23, 1859; died at Nash Mills, Hemel Hempstead, September 
ber 22, 1890.”’ 
These are the simple but touching lines of the mourning card tell- 
ing us of the death of a loving wife and the loss and grief of an affec- 
tionate husband. Prehistoric anthropological science has met a loss in 
her death not indicated in the notice, and which merits more than the 
formal announcement. 
Mr. John Evans is well known in other countries than his own ; but 
the nearer his home the more his worth is recognized. He is a self- 
made man, has made a fortune by his own exertions and ability, and 
has as well made a name in science. He is numismatist, geologist, 
archeologist, anthropologist, and geographer, and occupies a high 
position in these societies in Great Britain. He is author of the lead- 
ing works on the prehistoric implements and objects of stone and 
bronze of Great Britain. His house isa museum and library combined, 
and is filled with rare and costly specimens. It is also a home, one of 
elegance and luxury, and here reigned as queen the subject of this 
sketch. How much of the scientific attainments of Mr. John Evans 
was due to the aid, counsel, and encouragement of his wife no one but 
he can know. She was his partner, helpmeet, assistant ; she kept his 
references, was custodian of his papers, and virtually the curator and 
keeper of his museum and library. She accompanied him in his many 
journeys, going everywhere throughout Europe; she listened to and 
applauded his speeches, and was the comfort and solace of his life. She 
looked forward with bright anticipations to visiting the United States 
atthe proposed International Geological Congress in 1892. Science 
has lost more in her death than it knows of. Her bereaved husband 
has my sincerest condolence and sympathy.—T. W. 
