John Shearson Hyland, Ph.D., F.G.S.Source: The Irish Naturalist, Vol. 7, No. 6 (Jun., 1898), p. 153Published by: Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25521434 .

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1898.] 153

OBITUARY.

SAMUE4 GORDON, M.D.

We regret to record the death of one of the oldest of Dublin naturalists, Dr. Samuel Gordon, who passed away on April 29th, at the ripe age of

$2 years. A hard-working medical mian, associated with several of the Dublin hospitals, and at one time President of the College of Physicians, Dr. Gordon was much interested in natural history. He -was a menmber

of the now extinct Dublin Natural History Society, and served for nmany years on the Council of the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland, the

Presidency of which he held from I893 ulntil the end of last year.

30JN SHZARSON HYLAWND, PH.D., F.S.S.

Many Dublin naturalists who recall the presence of Dr. Hyland on the

staff of the Irish Geological Survey from I888 until I89I, during which

time he carried out some valuable petrological work, will be grieved to

learn that he succumbed to an attack of fever at Elinina, West Africa,

on April i9th, at the early age of 32. A native of Liverpool, Hylanld

studied at University College in that city, and later at Leipzig, under the

famous Zirkel, taking his doctor's degree in I888 with a thesis on the

rocks of Kilimanjaro. After his too brief service in Dublin, he turned

to mine-prospecting, and the last seven years of his life were passed in

North America and tropical Africa, investigating the geology and mineral

resources of new regions.

C. HERBfRT HURSTZ PH.D.

The death of Dr. C. Herbert Hurst on May ioth, IS98, at the early age of 42, cannot but be regarded as sad and untimely. More than once about

Chlristmas time he expressed concern at the loss of blood consequent on

the removal of a number of teeth. Blood-poisoning followed, and when

influenza seized him, more than one who knew his weak state of health felt there was cause for alarm, which proved too well justified by the fatal result.

Dr. Hurst was born in Lancashire and received his early edu cation, including a liberal amount of science, in the Manchester

Grammar School. Later he went as a Science Teacher in Training to

the Royal College of Science, London, where he worked under Frankland in chemistry, and later under Huxley in biology. He never forgot his obligations to these two men. On leaving London he was persuaded to take a post as Science Master in a boarding school in Yorkshire, where

work was hard and discipline severe. Dr. Hurst modelled his lectures

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