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P. NECROLOGY. 



The following list embraces the principal losses by death 

 during the year 1874 in the ranks of men of science, togeth- 

 er with a few names for 1873 which did not appear in the 

 Record of that year. 



Anderson, Dr. Thomas. Late professor of chemistry iii the Univer- 

 sity of Glasgow. Author of various chemical papers. Born at Glasgow in 

 1819. Died November 2. 



Angstlbm, Professor A. J. An eminent Scandinavian physicist of 

 Sweden. Born at Medelpad, Sweden, in 1811. Died December 22, 1873. 



Anstie, Dr. Francis Edmund. An eminent British physiologist and 

 physician. Died December 12, from a dissection wound. 



Amott, Dr. Neil. Born in 1789. Died in March, 1871, in his eighty- 

 sixth year. Well known since 1827 for his "Elements of Physic;" also 

 as the inventor of what is known as "Arnott's Stove," and other important 

 articles of great economical value. 



Bachman, Rev. John. One of the oldest American naturalists, asso- 

 ciated with Audubon in the preparation of his great work on North Amer- 

 ican mammals. Claimed by his friends to have been one of the first persons 

 in the United States if not the first to practice the art of artificial im- 

 pregnation of fish. Died February 21, 1871, at Charleston, S.C. 



Barclay, Deputy Surgeon-General. Head of the Statistical Branch 



of the Army Medical Department Headquarters, Whitehall, England. Died 

 November 13. 



Bayan, Ferdinand. Assistant in the School of Mines of Paris, and 

 author of several conchological works. Died September 21, aged twenty- 

 seven. 



Beke, Dr. Charles F. Distinguished as a traveler, especially for ex- 

 plorations in Africa in attempting the discovery of the sources of the Nile. 

 for his researches in Eastern Africa, and for his visit to Arabia in 1873 for 

 the purpose of determining the position of the true Mount Sinai, which he 

 contended had been erroneously identified. 



Blaney, Dr. J. V. Z. A practicing physician of Chicago, and one of the 

 founders and professors of the Rush Medical College. Much of* his time was 

 occupied as an analytical chemist, especially in medico -legal cases. Died 

 in Chicago, December 11, aged fifty-six. 



Bloomer, Jr., Hiram G. Curator of the California Academy of Sci- 

 ences. 



