. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. Miscellaneous. 481 In all these works, which are of such essential value to writers on ornithology, it is difficult to overestimate the labour, the accu- racy, and the importance attached to their compilation. The author was indefatigable in his researches, and spared no pains in searching out all that had been done in ornithology from every available source; and his success was in most respects commensurate with his labours. His chief fault lay not in an overweening confidenc
. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. Miscellaneous. 481 In all these works, which are of such essential value to writers on ornithology, it is difficult to overestimate the labour, the accu- racy, and the importance attached to their compilation. The author was indefatigable in his researches, and spared no pains in searching out all that had been done in ornithology from every available source; and his success was in most respects commensurate with his labours. His chief fault lay not in an overweening confidence in his own conclusions (for he was always most ready to avail himself of any suggestions or corrections that were made to him), but in an over-sensitiveness which made him impatient of criticisms which he considered carping, or of suggestions made without due considera- tion on points which he had himself studied with the xxtmost attention. In his official capacity he was always most ready to attend to and assist the numerous students who visited the Museum, and to give them whatever information he possessed on the subjects on which they were engaged; and many of our leading ornithologists will readily admit that they owe much to his kind assistance and advice. In private life he was equally kind-hearted and liberal, with some- what of the same over-sensitiveness to which we have above referred as distinctive of his scientific character. I3ut a truer-hearted and a better friend has seldom existed; and there are many, both in public and private, who will sincerely deplore his loss. He died on the 6th of May, in the 64th year of his age, leaving a blank in the world of science which wiU not readily be fiUed up. He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1845, and of the lloyal in 1866. Jukella, a new Alajonar'ian from Sir C. Hardys Islmid. By Dr. J. E. Geay, &c. Jtjkella. Coral hard, fleshy, forming a thick, smooth, barren stem, marked by irregular longitudinal gro
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