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paper on the sensory canals, but on the phylogeny of the Stego- | 
cephala. 
Grafrath near Munich, June 5% 1896. 
Henry Bargman Pollard 7. 
The scienee of comparative anatomy has sustained a heavy loss in 
the premature death of one of its most promising followers. At the early 
age of twenty-eight years Henry B. PorLarnp was accidentally drowned 
whilst bathing at Dover on June 14. The saying “Those whom the Gods 
love, die young” never was more bitterly exemplified than in his case. 
What Pottarp was permitted to do in the short space of six years, 
important though it was, appears as little in comparison with what he 
would have laboriously wrought for the good of science had the fates been 
less grim. Among the younger workers of the young generation of 
morphologists none was more brilliant — alike in promise and in per- 
formance — none more ardent, more enthusiastic, more thorough in the 
work than he. 
The few but weighty contributions to comparative anatomy, which 
we owe to his pen, have for us, who mourn his loss, a melancholy interest 
now, for they were his first labours and were to be his last. But, though 
he is no more with us, though we shall miss his originality, his enthusiasm, 
and his love for the true and the honest, his name, and the man who 
bore it, will retain a loving place in the memories of those who knew hin, 
and a lasting position in the roll of comparative anatomists. 
The importance of Porzarn’s works on the comparative anatomy of 
Ganoid, Siluroid and Marsipobranch fishes is apparent even to those with 
whose opinions and researches he was most at variance. Their worth as 
solid contributions to science is enhanced, because in them he left the 
beaten track and sought a new pathway of his own. 
It is impossible now to estimate our loss, for at the moment his place 
is vacant, and, numerous as are the workers, there is none who seems 
called to fill it. 
In his personal character PoLLarp united all that one would seek 
for in a friend, and among the readers of this journal there must be 
many, who, with lively recollections of the departed zoologist, mourn 
in him the loss of a valued friend. But it is difficult for a friend and 
fellow-worker to adequately express his sense of the loss he and others 
have suffered in the death of this friend. Though he is gone, his 
memory lives in our hearts, and it will help us in our task and lighten 
our labours, as he himself did when he was in our midst. 
And, while the science is all the poorer for his death, it is all the 
richer in that he lived and laboured for it, brief though was the span of 
time that he was of the workers. 
J. BEARD. 
Frommannsche Buchdruckerei (Hermann Pohle) in Jena. 
