622 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



Cooper, T. T. Distinguished as an explorer and traveller in India, 

 China, Australia, and elsewhere, his labors resulting in the accumulation of 

 a large amount of geographical and statistical information, to be found in 

 British official publications. Assassinated by one of his Sepoy guards on the 

 Irrawaddy River. 



Corbett, Dr. Joseph Henry. Formerly Professor of Anatomy and 

 Physiology in the University of Dublin. Died in March. 



Crespel, Captain. One of the Belgian Committee of the International 

 African Association for prosecuting certain special explorations. Died at 

 Zanzibar. 



Curioni, Giulio. A distinguished chemist and geologist. Died at Milan, 

 in his eighty-second year. 



Daintree, Richard. A well-known Australian geologist. Died at 

 Queensland, in his forty-sixth year. 



DelafoSSe. Professor of Mineralogy in the Paris Museum of Natural 

 History. Born in 1796, and elected Perpetual Secretary of the Academy of 

 Sciences of Paris in 1857. Died October 13th, in the eighty-third year of 

 his age. 



Du Mortier, Barthelemy Charles. A Belgian botanist and zoologist, 



and well known for his investigations upon the fresh-water Bryozoans and 

 Gasteropods. Died at Tournay, on the 9th of July, in the eighty-second 

 year of his age. 



Durieil. See de Maissonneuve. 



Dumford, Henry. Known as a zoological explorer in South America. 

 Author of an account of the birds of Patagonia in the London Ibis. Died 

 at Salto, in Bolivia, early in July. 



Elton, Captain. A well-known African explorer, whose journals, draw- 

 ings, and maps are of great value. Died while engaged in important ex- 

 plorations. 



EttingshaUSen, Baron VOn. Born at Heidelberg in 1796. Professor 

 of Physics in Innspruck in 1821, afterwards Professor of Mathematics in 

 Vienna, and finally Professor of Physics in that city, and Director of the 

 Physical Institute of Vienna. A well-known author of works on mathe- 

 matics, geology, and palaeontology. Died at the age of eighty-two. 



Fischer, Professor. Connected with the Laboratory of the Gymnasium 

 of Prague, and eminent as a chemist. In a blind confidence that cyanide of 

 potassium would be rendered harmless by combining it with sal ammoniac, 

 he took this combination in the presence of fellow investigators, and died at 

 the age of twenty-five. 



FordoS, J. Vice-President of the Paris Chemical Society. Died in 

 August. 



Fries, Professor Elias M. A distinguished botanist of the University 



