OBITUARY NOTICES. 
Dr Charles Henry Gatty, M.A. By W. C. M'Intosh. 
(Read June 6, 1904.) 
The subject of this memoir was born on the 6th March 1836, 
the son of George Gatty, Esq., one of the six clerks in Chancery 
(an office now abolished), and of Trances, daughter of Henry Jenkin- 
son Sayer, Esq., a solicitor, and Auditor of the Charterhouse. He 
was educated at Eton, but for a short time only, as he was a 
delicate boy, unfitted for the rough life of a public school in those 
days. He was therefore removed and educated by a private tutor 
till he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated as 
B.A. in 1859, and as M.A. in 1862. 
Of an earnest and studious frame of mind, he greatly enjoyed 
his life at college, where he made some valued friends. He 
always looked back with pleasure to this part of his career. 
After taking the B.A. degree he remained at Cambridge about 
a year studying medicine — not with a view to practising, but 
simply from his interest in the study of it in connection with 
zoology and comparative anatomy, as well as botany. 
After leaving Cambridge he travelled for a few months in the 
United States of America, a country in which he always felt a 
great interest, especially in the work of the elder and the younger 
Agassiz, in that connected with the scientific treatment of the 
fisheries of their vast shores, and in the general arrangements for 
the increase and spread of scientific knowledge. 
He spent the rest of his life for the most part at Eelbridge 
Place, a beautiful estate near East Grinstead in Sussex. His 
father died in 1862, but his mother, to whom he was deeply at- 
tached, and whose remembrances were a source of delight and 
solace to him to the last, lived till 1876. Her portraits and all 
that pertained to her seemed ever to awaken fresh interest— just 
