Obituary notices of fellows deceased

The father and the grandfather of Joseph Jackson Lister were distinguished men of science and Lord Lister, the President of the Royal Society, was his uncle. With a rich inheritance of scientific talent there were combined in his character a strong love of Nature and the industry and patience to combat the handicap of a delicate constitution. He was known to his friends and colleagues as a learned and accomplished naturalist, and he acquired a world-wide reputation for his investigations on the morphology of the Foraminifera. He was born at Leytonstone in 1857, and in his early years he and his sister used to ramble in Epping Forest guided and stimulated by their father to observe and study the animals and plants of the countryside. He soon became an ardent collector of butterflies and moths and, later on, of beetles to add to the family collections.