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ments, and Dr. Siegfried Czapski was allowed to act as deputy for liim 
in his functions. (6) Privy Councillor Bothe, in Weimar, was appointed 
as commissioner of the management of the institution. — Weimar, June 24, 
1891. Grossherzoglich Sachsisches Staatsministerium, Y. Gross. 
In our business register the following entries respecting this day’s 
decree have been made : — in Fol. 49, Bd. 1, for the firm Carl Zeiss in 
Jena, and under the headings — 
(a) Proprietor: — No. 5. The two proprietors named under No. 2 
and No. 4, Dr. Med. Koderick Zeiss and Dr. Ernst Abbe, have with- 
drawn. No. 6. The Carl Zeiss-Stiftung in Jena is the sole proprietor 
of the firm. 
(b) Kepresentative : — No. 2. Dr. Ernst Abbe in Jena is the authorized 
representative of the Carl Zeiss-Stiftung in Jena, with the right of 
signing for the firm. No. 3. The power of procuration granted to Dr. 
Otto Schott in Jena, named under No. 1, has been renewed by the Carl 
Zeiss-Stiftung. No. 4. Dr. Siegfried Czapski in Jena is procurator. — 
Jena, June 30, 1891. Grossherzoglich S. Amtsgericht, Abtheilung 
IY. Dr. Jungherr.” 
Death of Mr. Mayall. — It is with the greatest regret that we 
have to announce the death, on July the 27th, of Mr. John Mayall, 
jun., one of the Secretaries of the Society. His death will be felt 
as a severe loss wherever the Microscope is studied scientifically. 
We must postpone till the next number a detailed account of the 
services rendered by our deceased friend to science, to the Society, 
and to this Journal. 
The late Mr. Tuffen West, E.E.M.S. — Tuffen West, whose death at 
the age of sixty-eight we have recently had to lament, was one who has had 
few equals in devotion to natural history, and especially to its microscopic 
side. He was unrivalled as a draughtsman and a manipulator, and his 
love for his subject supplied him with never-failing energy. Severe 
bodily illness had for the last twenty years secluded him from contact 
with his fellow -workers, and robbed him of that public recognition of 
his services which he was about to reap. There are, however, still 
living many who well remember him, and can testify to the importance 
which was attached to securing his services in the production of any 
work requiring illustrations. As he was possessed of but a small 
income, and in the earlier part of his career of none at all, he made his 
dexterity with his pencil the source of his support. It was not, however, 
by any means solely for his artistic ability that his collaboration was 
eagerly sought by authors, for it was well known that he was both able 
and willing to give help in the most varied directions of scientific and 
pathological research. Work by others which had passed through his 
hands not only obtained a very considerable security against error, but 
not infrequently received important additions and elucidations. His 
good nature in these matters was occasionally somewhat imposed upon, 
and papers and books were published which really owed quite as much to 
the man whose name appeared only as artist, as they did to him who 
