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was chosen to fill the office of Swiney Lecturer on Geology in con- nection with the British Museum. These lectures were so popular that they secured, collectively, upwards of 15,000 attendances. His favour- ite subject of investigation, how- ever, has been that of Entozoa, or, more correctly, Helminthology, in which department he has written a profusely illustrated standard trea- tise and several smaller works. He has also contributed numerous scientific memoirs to the Koyal, Linnsean, and Zoological Societies. During five successive years he acted as Secretary to the Biological Section of the British Association ; and in 1879 he succeeded Professor Huxley as President of the Quekett Microscopical Club. He is also one of the Honorary Vice-Presidents of the Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society. Dr. Cobbold has for many years prac- tised as a physician, devoting his attention exclusively to internal parasitic diseases. In recognition of his services to biology, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia conferred ui)on him the title of Honorary Correspondent, and the Boyal Agricultural Aca- demy of Turin appointed him Honorary Foreign Member. A French writer has said, " En fait d*helminthologie, M. Cobbold est consider^ en An^leterre comme la premiere autoriti," whilst the lead- ing English professional journal speaks of his chief work as *' a noble contribution to medical sci- ence, which does honour to its author, and is a credit to our na- tional literature." One of his smaller works has passed through several editions, and two others have been translated and repub- lished in Italy.

CODEINGTON, General Sib William John, G.C.B., the eldest surviving son of the late Admiral Sir Edward Codrington, G.C.B., by his marriage with Miss Jane Hall, of Old Windsor, was born in Nov.

1804, and entered the army in 1821. He went with the Coldstream Guards to Bulgaria in 1854, was made Major-Gen. by brevet whilst at Yama, and distinguished him- self both at the Alma and at In- kermann. Sir W. Codrington was appointed to command the Light Division during a portion of the siege of Sebastopol, and was made Commander-in-Chief of the army in Nov. 1855. He was present with the army from its arrival in the Crimea to the evacuation, July 12, 1856 ; was made a K.C.B. during the war, and a G.C.B. in 1865. He represented Greenwich from 1857 to 1859, when he was appointed to the command at Gibraltar. The colonelcy of the 23rd Fusiliers was bestowed upon him Dec. 27, 1860, and he was promoted to the rank of General, July 27, 1863. In March, 1875, he was appointed Colonel of the Coldstream Ghiards, and in Oct. 1877, placed upon the retired Ust. Sir W. Codrington is Second Class of the Legion of Honour, Grand Cross of the Military Order of Savoy, and First Class of the Med- jidie. He is an active member of the Metropolitan Board of Works. COFFIN, The Right Rev. Robert Aston, D.D., Bishop of Southwark, is of a Sussex family, and was born in Brighton July 19, 1819. His father was a gentleman of private means, and engaged in no profession. In 1837 Mr. Robert Coffin, having been educated at Harrow, ent^d Christ Church, Oxford; as a commoner ; in 1838 he became a student of that College ; in 1840 he took his degree, and was in the third class of honours. In 1843 he became vicar of St. Mary Magdalene's, Oxford, and two years later he, like six or seven other Anglican ministers of that church, embraced the Catholic religion. Previous to his conversion the Rev. R. Coffin had joined the Tractarian movement, and while Mr. Newman was advancing towards the Roman Church at Littlemore, he was reach-