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many high offices of State. It is on the side of the hiological sciences that 

 the losses have chieHy fallen. Anatomy, human and comparative, has not for 

 many years sustained a more grievous blow than that which has come from 

 the untimely death of Daniel John Cunningham. Brilliant as an investigator, 

 luminous as an expositor, and with a singularly attractive personality, he 

 held with distinction for some twenty years the Chair of Anatomy in Trinity 

 College, Dublin. Six years ago he was chosen to succeed Sir William Turner 

 at Edinburgh, where it was fondly believed that he would long continue to 

 uphold and extend the reputation of the famous anatomical school of that 

 University. But he has been cut down in his prime, leaving us the memory 

 of a blameless and genial life, and the example of an untiring devotion 

 crowned with conspicuous success in every branch of investigation, teaching, 

 and administration, to which he applied his remarkable powers. 



In David James Hamilton we have lost one of tlie most experienced 

 pathologists in this country, whose researches on various diseases incident 

 to man and on some of the obscure ailments of sheep have been of lasting 

 benefit. He was elected into the Eoyal Society only last year. We sincerely 

 regret tliat he sliould have been so soon removed from our midst. 



Within the last few weeks the death of the Eev. W. H. Dallinger has 

 deprived the Society of one wlio was widely known and much respected 

 for his microscopic researches into the history of the minuter forms of 

 animal life. 



The number of geological Fellows of the Society has been reduced by the 

 loss of two well-known and accomplished men. Wilfrid Hudleston Hudleston 

 belonged to that small but important class, who having no professional ties and 

 possessed of a competence, are enabled to devote themselves to the cultiva- 

 tion of science from pure love and enthusiasm. To his critical skill English 

 geology and palaeontology stand under deep obligations. His contributions 

 to our knowledge of the invertebrate fauna of the Jurassic rocks, as well as 

 many thoughtful essays on a wide range of geological and geographical 

 subjects, are valuable additions to scientific literature. 



Harry Govier Seeley, trained under Sedgwick at Cambridge, early took up 

 the study of fossil reptiles, which became the main pursuit of his life. His 

 published memoirs on these extinct types gave him a wide reputation, and 

 remain as a lasting memorial of his patient research, critical insight, and 

 suggestive generalisations. 



The band of physiologists in our ranks has been thinned by the decease of 

 two of its members. We shall long regret the disappearance of the brilliant, 

 enthusiastic, widely accomplished, and kindly Arthur Gamgee. Those of us 

 who knew Gerald Francis Yeo before he sought the repose of his country 



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