Arthur B. E. HillasSource: The Irish Naturalist, Vol. 27, No. 10/11 (Oct. - Nov., 1918), p. 162Published by: Irish Naturalists' Journal Ltd.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25524780 .

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?62 The Irish Naturalist> Oct.-KW..,

OBITUARY.

ALICE SCHARFF.

With deep regret we announce to our readers the death of Mrs. R.

F. Scharff, which took place on August 15th, after a very short illness.

The younger daughter of the late L. O. Hutton, she was married to Dr.

Scharff in 1889, and devoted herself zealously to helping his .zoological

studies both as collector and writer. She shared particularly his keen

interest in the Irish Naturalist, and rendered no small service to the

Magazine by compiling the twenty-five years' autho-rindex that formed

the concluding number of the volume for 1916.

ARTHUR B. E. HILLAS.

The scientific institutions of Ireland have suffered yet a further loss

in the death of A. B. E. Hillis, Junior Inspector of Fisheries, who received

a commission in the Gordon Highlanders early in the war, and had risen

to the rank of Captain. He proved himself an exceptionally capable officer : "a splendid soldier keenly interested in the welfare of his men/'

was the testimony of his colonel. He was reported "

wounded and

missing "

on the western front in April, 1917, but not till the spring of

this year was it certified that he had given his life. Born in Co. Sligo in 1876, Hillas was educated at St. Columba's, the High School, and

Trinity College, where he took a Senior Moderatorship in 1898. Two

years later he joined the scientific staff of the Irish Fisheries Office, where,

until the outbreak of the war in 1914, he took an active part in the

observational and experimental work on the life-history and migration of food-fishes, devising a new method of marking Salmon smolts. The

results of this work and also a series of Eel-fry records made by him

were published in the Scientific Investigations of the Irish Fisheries Oifice.

NOTES,

W. H. Harvey and Charles Darwin.

Shortly after the publication of the "

Origin of Species "

Prof. Harvey read before the Dublin University Zoological and Botanical Association

(on 17 th February, 18?0) a paper entitled "

AjGuess at the Probable Origin

of the Human Animal considered by the light of Mr.|

Darwin's Theory of

Natural Selection, and in opposition to Lamarck's notion for a Monkey

Parentage," which was subsequently printed for private circulation under

a slightly emended title. In this he expresses disbelief in the efficacy of natural selection in the production of species, and indeed gently ridi

cules the whole theory. Darwin seemed disappointed that a man of Har

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