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Nathaniel Colgan. 



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NATHANIEL COLGAN. 



AN APPRECIATION. 



May I be allowed to say with how much real pleasure 

 and interest I read Mr. Praeger's account of Nathaniel 

 Colgan in the December number of the Irish Naturalist, 

 Colgan was one of the finest minds and most perfect 

 characters I ever knew. He was a very dear friend of 

 mine, and I feel much honoured at being connected with 

 him in friendship and comradeship in the notice of his life. 



Together, he and I, in our young days, explored nearly 

 all the mountain summits and high ridges of Ireland. We 

 also did some climbing in other countries : in the Pyrenees, 

 Alps, and elsewhere. I look back to those times with the 

 keenest delight. He was the most lovable of companions. 

 His keen intellect, wonderfully wide reading, subtle irony, 

 and felicity of expression threw light on everything, and 

 made the commonest experiences enjoyable. He ought to 

 have been a great man, famous in the world. It was 

 only his strange self-suppression and too great modesty 

 which prevented it. He had, I think, none of the ordinary 

 ambitions, but that made him all the more delightful. He 

 had a very large knowledge of European languages and 

 literature. He was not easy to know, but the knowledge 

 was well worth having. 



Charles F. Dublin. 



The Palace, Dublin. 



OBITUARY. 



PROFESSOR GEORGE MACLOSKIE. 



In Nature of 22nd January the death is recorded of George Macloskie, 

 professor of biology in Princeton University, New Jersey, U.S.A., in the 

 eighty-fifth year of his age. He was born at Castleda,wson, Co, Tyrone, 

 and educated at Queen's College, Belfast. He was called to Princeton 

 in 1875. His writings dealt chiefly with insects and plants, and he is 

 best known for his work on the Patagonian flora, 



