Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London - University Library

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
president of
the Malacological Society in 1896 and again in 1897 ;
the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies in 1900 ; president
of the section of zoology of the British Association in ] 902. He
helped to found
Ireland in 1887.
r.E.S. in ]897 ;
the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and
He was elected F.Z.S. and also F.L.S. in 1885 ;
honoured with the degree of LL.D. by the
University of St. Andrews in 1898 ; with that of D.Sc. by the
Victorian University in 1902. He was also a Corresponding
Member of the Eoyal Society of Victoria and of the New York
Academy of Sciences ; Hon. Member of the Nottingham Natural
History Society, of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, and of
the Essex Natural History Field Club.
Among the many pupils who passed through Howes's Laboratory
and Lecture-room, and who have since won or are steadily on the
way towards winning scientific reputation, may be mentioned :
Mr. E. H. Burne, present Secretary of the Malacological Society.
Mr. G. W. Butler, B.A., F.Z.S., studying the eggs of fishes.
Dr. J. E. Duerden, Professor of Zoology at Ehodes University,
Grahamstown, S. Africa.
Miss Alice Embleton, B.Sc, F.L.S. , E. S. Mackinuon Student
for 1903.
Mr. Alfred Vaughan Jennings, F.L.S., F.G.S. (see Proc. Linn.
Soc. 1903).
Mr. A. Coppen Jones, F.L.S., a bacteriologist.
Mr. W. L. Stevenson-Loat, specialist in fi.shery research in
North Africa.
Mr. J. E. S. Moore, F.L.S., F.Z.S., whose researches in Lake
Tanganyika are well known.
Dr. W. G. Eidewood, D.Sc, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.G.S., Lecturer on
Biology, St. Mary's Hospital Medical School.
Dr. H. H. Swinnerton, D.Sc, F.Z.S., Marshall Scholar, the
Eoyal College of Science, now of University College,
Nottingham.
Mr. W. T. Harold Wager, F.E.S., F.L.S., Lecturer on Biology,
the Yorkshire College.
Prof. G. S. West, Professor of Natural History at the Eoyal
Agricultural College, Cirencester.
Mr. Martin F. Woodward, Demonstrator in Biology at the
Eoyal College of Science, and Secretary of the Malaco-
logical Society of London (see Geol. Mag. dec. 4, vol. viii.
p. 480, 1901).
Much might easily be written in appreciative comment on the
character, the writings, and the influence of the lost friend who
cherished the Linnean Society with so much earnestness of willing
service. But the thoroughness which he threw into all his
scientific undertakings has elicited so many tributes of honour to
his memory, that it becomes expedient to avoid repetition even in
eulogium. The simple outline of his career and work that has
here been given should prove to the most critical that he was a
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