Glancing over his papers, it is apparent that his writings were largely modelled on those of his distinguished predecessor, Captain Hutton. It was indeed fortunate that the work of the one should have succeeded that of the other without the intervention of what the geologists describe as an unconformity. Perhaps at no time did Suter quite realize the undiscovered residue of the fauna on which he worked. In his various reviews and revisions and supplements he wrote as if he had in hand if not all at least almost all the species of the area under examination. Patience, perseverance, and concentration, rather than any great breadth of view, were his characteristics. His magnum opus, the Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca,* Published in 1913–15. was approached by a whole quarter-century of study and labour. It was the late Mr. Augustus Hamilton who planned the Manual, and obtained from the Government the means for its production. A competent critic wrote† Journ. of Conch., vol. 14, p. 287, 1915. of this magnificent volume that it made an extraordinary advance in Antipodean conchology. The nomenclature of the subject was raised to a modern standard, so that by its guidance any one can now correctly name the shells of New Zealand. Suter needs no other eulogy than his Manual. After the Manual was completed he was engaged by the Geological Survey to describe collections of Tertiary Mollusca gathered by the Department. On this he was busy for the remainder of his life, and the results are embodied in three Palaeontological Bulletins of the Geological Survey. After a brief illness Henry Suter passed away at his home in Christchurch on the 30th July, 1918. Charles Hedley.