oy W. H. WARREN. 
is four hundred and seventy-seven. There are in addition to the 
above, seventeen honorary and two corresponding members. 
Obituary.—The following is a list of members lost through death — 
Honorary Member - 
Elected. Died. 
Owen, Prof. Sir Richard, &.c.B., F.R.s. 1879, Dec. 18, 1892 
Ordinary Members - 
Cracknell, E. C., M. Inst. C.E., 1865, Jan. 14, 1893 
Halliday, Hon. William, M.L.c., 1891, Aug. 25, 1892 
Harrison, L. M., 1877, May, 1892 
Hunt, Robert, 0.M.G., F.G.S., 1878, Sep. 27, 1892 
Starkey, J. T. 1881, Nov. 21, 1892 
Tulloh, W. H. 1875, Sep. 30, 1892 
Professor Sir RicHARD OwEN, one of the most distinguished 
scientific men of this century, died at the age of eighty-eight years. 
His labours in the departments of zoology and anatomy are of 
world-wide reputation. He wrote the quarto-volumes of the ~ 
Catalogue of the Hunterian Museum; the great work with its 
one hundred and sixty-eight plates on odontology ; the anatomy 
of the vertebrates ; the four volumes which contain the memoirs 
on British fossil reptiles; the twenty-five memoirs on the Dinornis; 
the five memoirs on the osteology of the marsupials ; the essays 
on the fossil mammals of Australia, and the fossil reptiles of South 
Africa ; and many other valuable works which I have not time 
to refer to. From 1834 to 1856 he was Hunterian Professor to 
the Royal College of Surgeons, he was also for a long time 
Fullerian Professor to the Royal Institution. He wrote a manual 
of Paleontology, and contributed to Orr’s Circle of Sciences and 
the famous Cyclopedia of Anatomy and Physiology. From 1856 
to 1884 he was Superintendent of the Natural History Depart- 
ments of the British Museum. He served on Royal Commissions, 
was Chairman of a Jury at Paris Exhibition; President of the 
British Association in 1857, and the first President of the Micro- | 
scopical Section. Of the honours conferred upon him the most 
notable are the Royal (1842) and the Copley (1846) Medals of the 
