420 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



Reed, Dr. Stephen. An ardent geologist. Died July ]2th, at Pitts- 

 field, Mass., at the age of seventy-six. 



Rovida, Professor. Professor of Special Pathology and Clinical Medi- 

 cine at the University of Turin. Died at Milan. 



Rygersma, Dr. V. A naturalist and physician, of St. Martin, West In- 

 dies. Added much to the knowledge of the conchology of the West Indies. 

 Died March 4th. 



Sager, Dr. Abram. An American anatomist and physiologist. Born 

 in 1810. Died August Cth, at Ann Arbor, Mich., in the sixty-seventh year 

 of his age. 



Sailtini, Professor. Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Ob- 

 servatory in the University of Padua ; his connection with the university 

 dating from 1814. Noted for his investigations in relation to Biela's comet ; 

 an author of a valuable text-book of astronomy. Born in 1786. 



Schy the, J. C. Attention first devoted to the geography of Greenland, 

 upon which he published several memoirs; resided since 1850 in Chili, as 

 Professor of Natural Sciences at Santiago. Served as governor of the Terri- 

 tory of Magellan from 1853 to 1865. Born Feb. 6, 1814. Died at Val- 

 paraiso, January 30th. 



Smee, Alfred. A surgeon by profession, but devoting much time to in- 

 dustrial experiments, and a well-known electrician. Died January 11th, at 

 the age of fifty-eight. 



Smith, Mrs. Pleasance. Widow of Sir James Edward Smith, a dis- 

 tinguished botanist, who died in 1828. She followed him February 3d, 

 1877, at the age of one hundred and four years. 



Spalding", Douglas A. A frequent contributor of articles in the de- 

 partment of mental science to Nature. 



Strange, Lieutenant-Colonel A., F.R.S., etc. inspector of instru- 

 ments to the Indian Government, and connected with the great Indian Trig- 

 onometric Survey. 



Strong, Moses. Assistant Geologist of the Geological Survey of Wis- 

 consin ; a graduate of Yale College in 1867. Drowned August ISth, while 

 engaged in a geological examination of the branches of the Chippewa River. 



StrOUdberg, Dr. President of the Swedish Academy of Sciences. Died 

 at Stockholm, February 5th. 



Swinhoe, Robert. Distinguished as a traveller and investigator of the 

 natural history of China, Formosa, and other eastern countries. Born in 

 Calcutta in 1 836, where he also died in his forty-first year. 



Talbot, W. H. Fox. Inventor of the Talbot-typc process in photogra- 

 phy, in 1840. Died September 1 7th, at the age of seventy-seven. 



