612 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



HolbrOOk, Dr. John Edwards. A prominent naturalist ; professor of 

 anatomy in the State University of South Carolina; a well-known writer 

 upon the reptiles of North America and the fishes of South Carolina. Died 

 September 8th, at Norfolk, Massachusetts, at the age of seventy-seven. 



Houdin, Robert. A renowned prestidigitator, and distinguished for his 

 methods of turning electricity to practical account. 



Knieskern, Dr. Peter D. An indefatigable collector of plants. Died 

 at Shark River, New Jersey, September 12th, at the age of seventy-three. 



Lambert, M. Gustave. An earnest projector of expeditions of Polar 

 discovery by the way of Behring's Straits. Born July 1, 1824 ; died Janu- 

 ary 27, 1871, from a wound received in a skirmish with the German troops 

 before Paris. 



Lantzius-Beninga. A specialist in regard to the spore-cases of mosses. 

 Died at Gottingen, March Gth. 



Lartet, Professor E. A zealous laborer in science, especially in connec- 

 tion with the pre-historic remains and the fossil mammalia of France. Died 

 in Paris. 



Lecoq, Mr. Henry. A botanist and geologist ; a benefactor to his fel- 

 low-citizens as well as to science by his bequests in money and valuable col- 

 lections. Died at Clermont-Ferrand, France. 



Lenormand, Sebastian Rene. A well-known botanist. Died at Vire, 



December 11th, aged seventy-six. 



Mahan, Professor Dennis. Professor of engineering at West Point. 

 Died September 16th. 



Martins, C. 0. A. Born July, 1 816, at Berlin. Died of small-pox, July, 

 1871. "Well known as a member of the firm of Pistor and Martins, for the 

 manufacture of first-class geodetic and astronomical instruments, among them 

 the meridian circle used by Lieutenant Gillis in Chile', and others for the ob- 

 servatories at Ann Arbor and Albany, and for the National Observatory at 

 Washington (the last being the largest made by him). 



Milde, Julius. Botanist ; specialist in equisetacete and ferns. Died at 

 Breslau, July 3d. 



Miller, Dr. A well-known European cryptogamic botanist. 



Miquel, Professor F. A. W. The leading botanist of the Netherlands, 

 and director of the Herbarium at Leyden. Died January 23d, aged fifty-nine. 



Morgan, Professor Augustus de. An eminent mathematician. Died 

 in London. 



Murchison, Sir Roderick I. Distinguished as a geographer and ge- 

 ologist ; early an officer in the British army ; a director of the Geological 

 Survey of Great Britain and Ireland, and the head of the School of Mines in 

 Jermyn Street. Died October 23d, at the age of seventy-nine. 



Musprat, Dr. Sheridan. An eminent chemist, and author of works on 

 chemistry. Died at Liverpool. 



