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IT is little more than a month since an obituary notice of George James Allman appeared in these pages, and death has now claimed another distinguished worker in the same field. The Rev. Thomas Hincks, who died at Clifton on January 25, was but six years younger than Allman, having been born at Exeter on July 15, 1818. Allman's best-known works are his monographs on Gymnoblastic Hydroids and Fresh-water Polyzoa. Hincks' monographs on the same subjects, “A History of the British Hydroid Zoophytes”(1868) and “A History of the British Marine Polyzoa”(1880) are, by an unusual coincidence, more widely known and appreciated than any of his other works. The former was published while the sheets of the “Gymnoblastic Hydroids” were passing through the press, and Allman's opinion of it, recorded in his preface, may fitly be quoted here:—“Eminently critical, with the descriptions accurate and lucid, and with the figures abundant and expressive, it is the most complete systematic work on the Hydroida hitherto published. The large amount of original observations gives it a special value, and its fulness of description and illustration renders it indispensable to every student of the Hydroida.”
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H., S. Thomas Hincks, F.R.S. Nature 59, 374 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/059374a0
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