XXVI1 Obituary Notices of Fellows deceased. 
an exhibition at St. John’s. In the second year a little original investigation 
on beetles was started; in May he took, for a month, Adam Sedgwick’s 
place, and demonstrated for Balfour. 
The Tripos work was continued, in spite of ill-health, till the Easter of 
1881, when Weldon was unable to enter for the college scholarship examina- 
tions. By the influence of Francis Balfour, however, Weldon’s real ability 
was recognised, and a scholarship was awarded to him. At the very start 
of his Tripos examination, his only brother, Dante Weldon, who had joined 
Peterhouse, died suddenly of apoplexy. It says much for Weldon’s self- 
control that the terrible shock of his brother’s death did not interfere with 
his place in the first class of the Natural Sciences Tripos. A few weeks 
later a second bereavement befell him, when his mother passed away. 
These trials, followed by Balfour’s untimely death in the following year, 
and by the early death of his own father a few years later, left their indelible 
impresses upon him. 
With the Tripos, Weldon’s “ Lehrjahre ” closed, and, as his nature directed, 
the “ Wanderjahre ” began without any interval of rest. Immediately after 
his Tripos, Weldon started for Naples to work at the Zoological Station. 
The charm of Balfour’s personality had aroused the affection of all who 
attended his classes, and had awakened a keen desire to follow in his 
foctsteps. In those days the stimulus given by Darwin’s writings to 
morphological and embryological researches was still the dominating factor 
amongst zoologists, and Weldon threw himself at first with ardour into the 
effort to advance our knowledge by morphological methods. In Naples he 
began his fitst published work, a “Note on the early Development of 
Lacerta muralis,’ and at the same time did much miscellaneous work on 
marine organisms. 
In September he was back in England at the Southampton Meeting of the 
British Association. Adam Sedgwick, who had succeeded to the teaching 
work of Francis Balfour, now invited Weldon to demonstrate for him. 
Thus, the winter found Weldon in Cambridge again, and from Sedgwick’s 
laboratory was issued the next piece of work: “On the Head-kidney of 
Bdellostoma, with a suggestion as to the Origin of the Suprarenal Bodies,” 
and he followed the subject up in the next year by publishing his paper 
“On the Suprarenal Bodies of Vertebrates.” 
On March 14, 1883, the anniversary of his parents’ wedding-day, Weldon 
married Miss Florence Tebb, the eldest daughter of William Tebb, now of 
Rede Hall, Burstow, Surrey. 
After the death on January 14, 1883, of W. A. Forbes, a Fellow Johnian, 
Weldon for four months—June 15 to October 15—acted as locwm tenens for 
the Prosector at the Zoological Gardens, London, and during that time he read 
the following papers before the Zoological Society :—“ On some points in the 
Anatomy of Phcenicopterus and its Allies”; a “ Note on the Placentation of 
Tetraceros quadricornis” ; and “ Notes on Callithrix gigot.” 
In the following year (1884) the paper above referred to on the 
