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Olrick, Mr. Royal inspector of North Greenland ; director of the colo- 

 nies. Died at Copenhagen. 



Payen, M. A well-known writer upon applied chemistry. Died in 

 Paris, aged seventy-six. 



Pease, Wm. Harper. An American, long time resident in the Sandwich 

 Islands, and in communication with leading naturalists in America and Eu- 

 rope. Specially interested in conchology, and a describer of many new spe- 

 cies. Died at Honolulu in July, 1871. 



Reissek, S. Keeper of the Imperial Herbarium at Vienna. Died No- 

 vember 9th. 



Rigacci, Jean. Well known as a conchologist. Died at Rome, May 

 11th, in his fiftv-fiftli vear. 



Rodman, U.S.A., Brigadier-General. An ordnance officer, inventor 

 of the Rodman gun. Died at Little Rock, Arkansas, June 7th, aged fifty. 



Rohrbach, Paul. A botanist of Berlin. Died June 3d, aged twenty-five. 



RuSSel, Mr. Robert. An eminent Scottish meteorologist and agricultur- 

 ist. Author of a work on American agriculture. 



Sagra, Mr. Ramon de la. Author of a valuable work on the natural 

 history of Cuba. Died in Switzerland, aged seventy-three. 



Schultz-Schultzenstein, Professor Carl H. Professor of physiology 



at the University of Berlin. Died March 23d. 



Seeman, Dr. Berthold. Botanist and explorer ; author of valuable pa- 

 pers on "Plants of the Esquimaux Land," etc., and of various works of trav- 

 el ; editor of a botanical journal in London ; a director of gold mines in Nic- 

 aragua, and manager of a sugar estate near Panama. Died near Chontales, 

 Nicaragua, October 10th. 



Sowerby, Mr. James de Carle. A well-known naturalist ; a distin- 

 guished artist; especially prominent as a botanist; author of " Sowerby 's 

 English Botany." Died August 26th, aged eighty-four. 



Strecker, Dr. Adolph. Professor of chemistry at Wiirzbarg. Author 

 of a text-book, and of other publications relative to chemistry. 



Swan, Rev. J. A. An ardent naturalist ; secretary of the Boston Soci- 

 ety of Natural History. Died at Boston, October 31st, aged forty-eight. 



Villavicencio, Dr. Manuel. Governor of a province of Ecuador; 

 known as an author by his researches on the Quichua language, and a work 

 on the geography of Ecuador. Died at Quito, January 11th. 



Wetherell, Professor Charles M. Connected with the United States 

 Agricultural Department for a time as a chemist, then with the Smithsonian 

 Institution in a similar capacity, and finally professor of chemistry at Lehigh 

 University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he died March 5th. 



Wilson, William. Specialist in mosses ; associated with Sir William 

 Hooker in a work on British Mosses. Died April 3d, at Warrington, aged 

 seventv-two. 



