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Diatomacea:, and I think it must be a satisfaction to all his friends 
that these have passed en bloc into the possession of Mr. Wynne 
E. Baxter, F.R.M.S., the Coroner for East London, a gentleman 
who is qualified to appreciate them, and who proposes shortly to 
publish a work on the order. 
The remainder consists principally of Foraminifera, sections of 
Bocks and Shells and Sponge Spicules. About 400 of these slides 
are now in my own cabinet, and amongst them are some of consider- 
able local interest, including sections of Flints procured in Norfolk; 
and also the original slides which furnished the illustrations to the 
paper on that subject in your ‘ Transactions,’ vol. i. part 2, page 59, 
and read 27th February, 1872 ; and l need scarcely add that these 
objects will now be available to any one studying the subject. 
The slide showing the borings in a Haliotis Shell from New Zealand, 
of which two illustrations were given in the Journal of the Quekett 
Club, vol. vi. series 1, in reference to papers by Mr. B. W. Priest 
and Mr. J. G. Waller, is now with the former. 
In the patt which Frederic Kitton took in editing the Diatomacea^, 
in the last edition (18G1) of Pritchard’s Infusoria, he had perforce 
to work on the classification therein adopted, but otherwise he had 
then and for the future himself used that of Professor II. L. Smith, 
of Geneva, N.Y. He was in full agreement with the Rev. William 
Smith, the author of ‘ The Synopsis, British Diatomaceae,’ as to the 
great care necessary in establishing new species, and of the injury 
resulting to science from the careless introduction of synonyms. 
But with all due care he discovered and named many new forms, 
and a list of more than a dozen of these is given in his son’s memoir. 
There is also a list of a dozen other new species, to which various 
friends, to do him honour, attached his name, and in 1886, Messrs. 
Grove and Sturt, from the wonderful deposit found at Oamaru in 
New Zealand, created a new genus Kittonia. 
So with BriijhtweMia saperba and Kittonia elabomfa (both disc 
forms) the two friends, who so long worked together will, for many 
a year, be associated in the minds of those who shall succeed them 
in their favourite study. 
May I, in conclusion, using the idea of one of Frederic Kitton’s 
favourite authors (Dickens), say to such students, “ Keep his memory 
green,” as a simple-minded, earnest, hard-working man, who strove 
for “the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth.” 
