HDITORIAL GLEANINGS. 519 
Society.’ These notes are written up to 31st July, 1898. We previously 
referred to his last census of twelve months ago (‘ Zoologist,’ 1897, p. 533). 
He is now able to increase his enumeration of birds represented by the 
following remains :— 
Skins ae Be 80 or 82. 
Skeletons, more or less complete 23 ,, 24. 
Detached bones yr dee et OO gO. 
Physiological preparations ne PARP 
Eggs... cee aoe se WA 
Str Joun Murray has presented to the British Museum the first set 
of the Natural History Collections made by Mr. C. W. Andrews during 
his year’s stay on Christmas Island, 200 miles south of Java. 
W. Westxy & Son, 28, Essex Street, Strand, London, have just issued 
a new Catalogue, being No. 132 of their Natural History and Scientific 
Book Circular, which gives a descriptive and classified list of 1500 books 
and pamphlets on the Natural History of Great Britain and Ireland. We 
believe that it is the first catalogue of this character which has been 
published. The arrangement under the names of the English counties, 
Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, will be found of interest to collectors of local 
fauna and flora. 
—— 
WE regret to announce the death of Protessor George J. Allman, M.D., 
F’.R.S., formerly Regius Professor of Natural Science in the Edinburgh 
University, which took place at Ardmore, Parkstone, Dorset, on Nov. 24th. 
Professor Allman, who was born in Cork in 1812, was the eldest son of 
Mr. James Allman, of Bandon, County Cork. He was educated at Belfast 
Academical Institution, and resolved on studying for the Irish Bar. Before, 
however, he had completed his terms, the love of natural science caused 
him to abandon law for medicine, and he accordingly graduated in Arts and 
Medicine in the University of Dublin in 1844. In the same year he was 
appointed Regius Professor of Botany in the University, and gave up all 
idea of practising medicine as a profession. In 1854 he was elected a 
Fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1855 he resigned his professorship in 
the University of Dublin on being appointed Regius Professor of Natural 
History.and Keeper of the Natural History Museum in the University of 
Edinburgh. This post he held until 1870, and shortly afterwards the 
honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by the Edinburgh 
University. Professor Allman devoted the greater part of his life to 
investigating the lower organisms of the animal kingdom, The large col- 
