410 The American Naturalist. [April, 
America, which is especially valuable for its admirable illustrations, — 
drawn and colored by himself. 
Dr. Leidy received the Walker prize of the Boston Society of Natural - 
History, and the Lyell medal of the Geological Society of London. 
He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard University. At 
the time of his death he was president of the faculty of the Wagner 
Free Institute of Science, and of the Department of Biology of the 
University of Pennsylvania; also of the American Anthropometric 
Society, to which body his brain has been committed for examination — 
and report, 
Professor Leidy was a man of fine presence, and was possessed of 
a sonorous voice. He was an admirably lucid lecturer, and had excel- 
lent artistic skill. In his disposition he was retiring and even timid, 
and his sympathies were easily roused. His interest was readily enlisted 
on behalf of ‘the under dog in the fight’’; and the person who 
appealed to this side of his character was rarely disappointed. From 
an intellectual point of view, he was an acute and accurate observer, 
and a tireless investigator. Of the systematic and generalizing faculties 
he possessed little, and for this reason he was no organizer of men. In 
fact, he was indifferent to this aspect of human relations, being a? 
‘‘ individualist ’’ in this respect, as he was in his scientific pursuits. 
American science has sustained a severe loss in the death of Leidy. 
His life has been a stimulus to the progress of intellectual pursuits 1 
this country, and it will produce much fruit in the future, as ithasm 
the past. Honors came to him and his fellow-citizens will honor thém- 
selves by erecting to him a permanent memorial in some conspicuous 
part of the city of his birth. 
WE regret to announce the sudden death, on February 13th, at e i 
age of 77 years, of Mr. William Davies, F.G.S., for forty yeas 
the Geological Department of the British Museum, from which he : 
retired as senior assistant some two or three years ago. This nET 
paleontologist was widely known and highly esteemed by scientists e 
all countries for his great knowledge of the fossil back-boned an m 2 
and for the genial readiness with which he imparted it to students a" 
world to the great shrine of natural history in London. 
tions went back to the days of Dean Buckland, Agassiz, Ow 
Phillips, Hugh Miller, and other great pioneers and founders 
sciences of geology and paleontology. No one, perhaps, 
