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The Irish Naturalist, 



January, 191 5. 



OBITUARY. 



PROFESSOR RICHARD JOHN ANDERSON, M.D. 



We regret to record the death, in July last, of Dr. R. J. Anderson who 

 for thirty years past has occupied the chair of Natural History at University 

 (or as it was called, until 1908, Queen's) College, Galway. He has left a 

 monument in the Zoological Museum at the College, which contains a 

 remarkably complete series of teaching material and some noteworthy 

 individual specimens. An illustrated account of this museum was published 

 by Prof. Anderson in the Irish Naturalist (vol. viii., 1899, pp. 125-131). 

 He was handicapped by the extremely wide scope of his teaching work, 

 but he attended constantly the meetings of the British Association and 

 of the International Zoological Congress, where he brought forward 

 several papers on details of the vertebrate skeleton. In the Irish 

 Naturalist (vol. x., 1901, pp. 117-119, and vol. xiii., 1904, pp. 126-7) 

 he described the skull and teeth of the Beaked Whale {Mesoplodon 

 Hectori) ; writing also {lb. vol. ix., 1900, pp. 150-2) on Crookedness in 

 the Sterna of Fowls. 



NEWS GLEANINGS. 



The Irish Fisheries Office. 



Naturalists beyond the borders of Ireland will unite in wishing all 

 happiness and prosperity to W. S. Green, c.b., who has lately retired, 

 under the age limit, from his position as Chief Inspector of Irish Fisheries. 

 The work of surveying the western waters which is now carried on by the 

 Government Department was begun thirty years ago largely as the result 

 of Mr. Green's private enterprise and enthusiasm. We wish him a long 

 and enjoyable leisure with abundant opportunity for continuing the 

 geographical and biological studies to which his life has given so much 

 encouragement. 



The post of Chief Inspector has been conferred on the distinguished 

 marine zoologist, E. W. L. Holt, m.r.i.a., who has as his colleagues in 

 the inspectorate, Charles Green and R. H. Lee. 



University College, Galway. 



The Chair of Natural History vacated through the death of Prof. R. J. 

 Anderson, has been filled by the appointment of Joseph Mangan, m.a., 

 F.R.c.sc.i., who from the Royal College of Science, Dublin, passed to 

 Manchester University as Research Scholar and Lecturer in Economic 

 Zoology, and has, for the past year been working as Assistant Professor 

 of Biology at the School of Medicine, Cairo. Galway is an admirable 

 centre for biological study — especially as regards the marine fauna and 

 flora, and we hope that Irish natural history will benefit by Mr. 

 Mangan's transference from the east to the west. 



