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![[i^rowi the Obituary Notices of the Proceedings of the Royal Society, Vol. XV.] t. L ■ cf o ^ ^ '^v-VL:A / 4 4/r<:~K ■<;iy r w (\ » S3*' The science of Palaeontology has sustained a great loss in the death of Hugh Falconer, M.D. Born at Forres, in the north of Scotland, on the 29th of February, 1808, he received his early education at the Gram- mar school of that town, and afterwards studied Arts at the University of King’s College, Aberdeen, and Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. From the former University he received the degree of A.M.; and from the latter, in 1829, the degree of M.D. As a boy, he exhibited a decided taste for the study of natural objects, » which he eagerly followed up in Edinburgh under the systematic tuition of Professors Graham and Jameson. On visiting London in 1829, he availed himself of the opportunity to assist the late Dr. Nathaniel Wallich in the distribution of his great Indian herbarium, and to stud}'^ the collection of Indian fossil mammalia from the banks of the Irrawaddi, formed by ]Mr. John Crawfurd during his mission to Ava, and presented by him to the Geological Society. Both occupations proved of material service in his subsequent career, and in the latter instance it determined the labours to which he afterwards so zealously devoted himself. In 1830 Dr. Falconer proceeded to India as an Assistant-Surgeon in the H.E.I.C. Service, and arrived in Calcutta in September of that year. Here he at once undertook an examination of fossil bones from Ava, in the possession of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and published a descrip- tion of them, which at once gave him a recognized position in the roll of cultivators of science in India, and led to his being a}>pointed in 1832 to succeed Dr. Royle as Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens of Suha- runpoor, in the North-western Provinces. In the same year (1832) he made an excursion to the Sub-IIimalayan range, and from the indication of a specimen in the collection of his friend and colleague. Captain, now Sir Proby T. Cautley, the real nature of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22342138_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
