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scientific acumen of the author, while the descriptive part of the work is 

 marked by that thorough familiarity with the subject, which charac- 

 terised his previous great work on the Sessile-Eyed Crustacea. 



Mr. Bate contributed to the ' Proceedings of the Royal Society ' 

 papers " On the Development of Carcinus Mcenas " (185(5—57), and 

 " On the Development of the Crustacean Embryo and the Variations 

 of Form exhibited in -the Larvae of 38 Genera of Podophthalmia " 

 (1876). In the ' Philosophical Transactions,' 1858, appeared a 

 memoir, " On the Development of Decapod Crustacea." These papers 

 well show the interest which he took in the remarkable transforma- 

 tions undergone by the young of Crustacea, and the important share 

 which he had in the elucidation of them. To the ' Proceedings of the 

 Zoological Society,' — of which Society he was elected a Correspond- 

 ing Member in 1865 — Mr. Spence Bate contributed several papers 

 descriptive of new species of Crustacea. 



Mr. Bate was one of the founders of the Devonshire Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art, was its first 

 Senior General Secretary in 1862, and its President in 1863. In this 

 Society he always took the keenest interest, and he contributed to 

 its Proceedings many papers, chiefly connected with local archae- 

 ology. He was a most active member of the Plymouth Institution, 

 was twice President of that body, and delivered before it many 

 lectures on biological and archaeological subjects. He was also 

 deeply interested in the Fine Art Society of Plymouth, and being a 

 good amateur artist in water-colours, he contributed frequently to 

 the exhibitions held by that Society. 



About two years before his death Mr. Bate partially retired from 

 his dental practice, having previously purchased a country residence, 

 — " the Rock," at South Brent — where he died after a brief illness on 

 Monday, the 29th of July, 1889, aged 71 years. He was twice 

 married. His first wife was Miss Emily Amelia Hele, of Wellad 

 Lake, near Ashburton. His second wife survives him. He also 

 leaves two sons of the first marriage, — Captain C. McGuire Bate, of 

 the .Royal Engineers, and Dr. Hele Bate, of London ; and a daughter, 

 Miss Emily Harriet Bate. 



G. S. B. 



John Frederic Bateman, a son of Mr. John Bateman, of Ockbrook, 

 Derbyshire, was born the 30th of May, 1810. His mother was the 

 daughter of the Rev. Benjamin La Trobe, an eminent Moravian 

 minister in Yorkshire, in compliment to whom his grandson, late in 

 life, assumed the name of John Frederic La Trobe Bateman. 



At fifteen years of age he was apprenticed to a surveyor and mining 

 engineer of considerable practice at Oldham, and made such progress 

 that he was able to commence business on his own account, as an 



