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THE Editor has to acknowledge receipt of the following 
publications :— 
Catalogue of the Library of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 
Report of the Auckland Institute and Museum for 1881-1882. 
Papers and Proceedings, and Report of the Royal Society of Tasmania for 1880, 
Catalogue of the Australian Stalk and Sessile-eyed Crustacea, by Wm. A. 
Haswell, M.A., B.Sc, (from the author). 
Transactions and Proceedings, and Report of the Royal Society of South 
Australia (Vol. IV.) tor 1880-81. 
Journal of the Microscopical Society of Victoria, Vol. I, No. 4, Vol. II, No. 1. 
ERRATA.—In Dr. Roseby’s paper, at p. 68, substitute ‘“ Car- 
lyle” for “Carty,” at line 36. In noteon “ Adenochilus gracilis,” 
at p. 71, ninth line from the bottom of the page, “ south- 
eastern ” should read “ south-western.” 
CHARLES DARWIN, 
[BORN, FEBRUARY, 1809; DIED, APRIL, 1882.] 
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The home telegrams of this morning inform us in New 
Zealand that the greatest naturalist of the present century has 
just passed away. A pre-eminently busy and useful life has just 
come to its close in a ripe old age. For more than half-a-cen- 
tury Charles Darwin has devoted all his great energies to the 
search for scientific truth, and up to within a short period of his 
death was still working with unwearied assiduity at his self- 
imposed labours. Gifted with great natural powers, which 
received the best direction and cultivation that skilful training 
could give, and furnished with that large provision of the things 
of this life which completely placed him beyond the harassing 
and engrossing cares of having to provide for the daily wants of 
himself and his family, he was yet troubled continually with a 
“thorn in the flesh,’ which must often have rendered all work 
extremely painful and irksome. Though he lived far beyond 
the average span of human existence, he was for the greater 
part of his life far from being a strong man, and his compara- 
tively feeble health, and constantly-recurring illnesses, must have 
been a hindrance to all kinds of work, such as, in men of less 
determination and method, would have proved almost in- 
superable. 
Darwin has achieved what few men have done before him— 
he has revolutionised much of our knowledge and modes of 
thought, and has given an enormous impetus to every branch of 
science. Did his reputation rest on his earlier works alone, it 
would have been placed on a high and firm foundation. To 
take one example only :—his two monographs on the recent 
and fossil Cirripedia alone are such masterly essays in practical 
