 They were, apart from Engels, Eleanor Marx, Edward Aveling, Paul Lafargue, Charles Longuet, Helene Demuth, Wilhelm Liebknecht, Gottlieb Lemke, Frederich Lessner, G Lochner, Sir Ray Lankester, Carl Schorlemmer and Ernest Radford.A contemporary newspaper account claims that 25 to 30 relatives and friends attended the funeral.A writer in The Graphic noted that, 'By a strange blunder ...his death was not announced for two days, and then as having taken place at Paris.