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FOX, Sir Charles. A British engineer and architect. 



Gavitt, John E. President of the American Bank-note Company. 

 Particularly interested in the microscope, and skillful in its use. Died at 

 Stockbridge, Massachusetts, August 26, 1874, in the fifty-eighth year of his 

 age. 



Gay, Mr. Claude. A specialist in botany ; the author of a work on the 

 natural and civil history of Chile, occupying twenty volumes of octavo text, 

 with a folio atlas of twenty plates, commenced under the auspices of the 

 Chilian government. Died at Iffendo, France, November 29, 1873, at the 

 age of more than eighty years. 



Grant, ProfeSSOr Robert E. An investigator, teacher, and author in 

 the departments of comparative anatomy and physiology. Born in Edin- 

 burgh in 1793. Died in London on the 23d of August, 1874, in his eighty- 

 first year. 



Grantham, Mr. John. A British engineer, and largely engaged in 

 constructing steamships. Died July 10. 



Grinnell, Mr. Henry. Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Died 

 June 20, 1874, at the age of seventy-five. Engaged in the shipping business 

 as a member of the firm of Grinnell, Minturn, & Co., New York ; a patron 

 of arctic exploration on many occasions. 



Guerin-Meneville, F. E. An eminent French entomologist ; founder 

 of the Magasin de Zoologie and of the Revue Zoologique. 



GuizignieS, Count du BUS de. Known as an ornithologist, and the 

 author of valuable memoirs on birds, as well as of several articles on fossil 

 crustaceans. Prominent also in the politics of Belgium. 



HanCOCk, Mr. Albany. Born in 1806 at Newcastle-on-Tyne. Emi- 

 nent as a naturalist, and an author of several important papers, chiefly relat- 

 ing to the mollusca. 



Hardick, Mr. Charles. A well-known American mechanical engineer. 

 Died October 15. 



Harris, Mr. Stephen. A civil and mining engineer of reputation. Died 

 March 11, 1874, at Pottsville, Pennsylvania. 



Harrison, Jr., Mr. Joseph. Known for his mechanical abilities. The 

 inventor of what is known as Harrison's tubular boiler. Born in Philadel- 

 phia in 1810. Died in the same city, March 27, 1874. 



Hawker, Rev. W. H. A British naturalist, and an active member of the 

 Alpine Club. Died at Petersfiekl, England, May 26. 



HeSSenberg, Dr. Friedrich. An accomplished mineralogist and crys- 

 tallographer. Died at Frankfort, July 8. 



Holton, ProfeSSOr J. E. A botanist. Traveled in Colombia, South 

 America, and the author of a work upon the same. Died at Everett, Mas- 

 sachusetts, January 2"), 1874. 



