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diseases. "W. R. Le Fami, in his Seventy 

 Years of Irish Life, gives the following tes- 

 timony of an invalid who had sought the 

 benefits of Knock Chapel : " Indeed, sir, I 

 took all the rounds and said all the prayers, 

 but it was of no use ; not but what it's a 

 grand place. It would astonish you to see 

 all the sticks and crutches hanging up there 

 left behind by poor cripples who went 

 home cured. It's my opinion, sir, that for 

 rheumatism, and the like of that, it's a grand 

 place entirely ; but as for the liver, it's not 

 worth a d n." 



The third session of the School of Applied 

 Ethics will be held at Plymouth, Mass., in 

 July and August, 1894. Lectures will be 

 given by leading scholars in three depart- 

 ments, namely : those of Ethics, under the 

 direction of Prof. Felix Adler ; Economics, 

 Prof. H. C. Adams, director ; and History of 

 Religions, Prof. C. H. Toy, director. A com- 

 plete programme of the lectures is to be is- 

 sued. S. Burns Weston, Secretary, 118 South 

 Twelfth Street, Philadelphia. 



OBITUARY NOTES. 



Frank Bolles, Secretary of Harvard Uni- 

 versity and an esteemed contributor to The 

 Popular Science Monthly, died at his home 

 in Cambridge, Mass., of pneumonia, January 

 10th, in his thirty-eighth year. His father 

 was the first editor of the Boston Journal, 

 and was distinguished in public life ; his 

 mother was a sister of General John A. Dix. 

 He was a graduate of the Columbia and the 

 Harvard Law Schools ; had considerable ex- 

 perience in journalistic work ; contributed to 

 literary periodicals under the signature of 

 "Eugene Raleigh " ; was a hard worker over 

 books, and was enthusiastically fond of out- 

 door life and the study of Nature in all her 

 aspects, making specialties of mountains and 

 birds. A few years ago he bought an aban- 

 doned farm, on the edge of Chocorua Lake 

 and at the foot of the mountain of that 

 name, where, as he told a gentleman who 

 called on him last summer, he spent " every 

 minute " he could spare from his duties at 

 Cambridge, and where he kept his pet owls 

 and mice, etc., in summer, wintering them 

 at Cambridge. He contributed to The Popu- 

 lar Science Monthly an article on Ways of 

 the Owl, published in June, 1892, and other 

 articles which will appear in time ; published 

 two books, describing his outdoor and moun- 

 tain excursions and studies, entitled The 

 Land of the Lingering Snow and To the 

 North of Bear Camp Water, and was the au- 

 thor, besides, of some books of information 

 concerning Harvard University, the Genealo- 

 gy of the Family of Anthony Dix, Important 

 English Statutes, and an essay on Interna- 

 tional Arbitration, which secured him the 

 Bowdoin prize at Harvard. As Secretary of 

 Harvard University he kept the interests of 



the students at heart, established an employ- 

 ment bureau for them, and was beloved by 

 them. 



The Rev. Samuel Lockwood, Ph. D., who 

 died at Freehold, N. J., January 9th, aged 

 seventy-five years, was well known by his 

 popular articles on scientific subjects, which 

 he invested with a rare charm of sympathetic 

 interest. He was a close observer, particu- 

 larly of animals in their various moods, and 

 his descriptions were always picturesque, 

 while accurate. He contributed sixteen arti- 

 cles to The Popular Science Monthly, begin- 

 ning with the fLrst volume. The subjects 

 were: Crabs, Audubon's Lily, the Coati- 

 mondi. Cultivating Wild Flowers, The Ene- 

 mies we Import, The Eucalyptus, Glass 

 Sponges, The Great Cemetery in Colorado, 

 A Mastodon, Musical Mice, The Oyster, 

 American Owls, Scratching in the Animal 

 Kingdom, and Sea Anemones. 



Mr. Robert Bentlet, of Earl's Court, an 

 eminent English botanist, died in December, 

 1893. Soon after becoming a member of 

 the College of Surgeons, in 1847, he was ap- 

 pointed lecturer on botany in the Medical 

 School of the London Hospital, and Professor 

 of Botany in King's College. His subsequent 

 life was entirely devoted to the advancement 

 of botanical science, and he was the author 

 of numerous books and papers bearing upon 

 it, and upon the application of botanical 

 knowledge to medicine and in the arts. One 

 of the last of his works of this kind was the 

 editing jointly with Profs. Redwood and Att- 

 field of the British Pharmacopoeia of 1885, 

 which is still the official standard for all 

 medicinal preparations required by the Med- 

 ical Council. 



T. W. Kennard, C. E., founder of the 

 Monmouthshire Crumlin Works, Wales, and 

 designer and constructor of the Crumlin Via- 

 duct, who died in September, 1893, was the 

 engineer-in-ehief of the Atlantic and Great 

 Western Railway in the United States. 



Rear-Admiral Marin H. Jansen, of the 

 Royal Netherlands Navy, died at the Hague, 

 September 9, 1893, on the last day of his 

 seventy-seventh year. He was largely en- 

 gaged during his active life in geographical 

 exploration and surveying ; was a corre- 

 spondent of Lieutenant M. F. Maury, of the 

 United States, in his scientific work ; con- 

 tributed much information in aid of his re- 

 searches, and published a translation of his 

 Physical Geography of the Sea, with valuable 

 appendices on land and sea breezes in the 

 tropics and on ozone, which Maury incorpo- 

 rated into his own subsequent editions ; pub- 

 lished an important work, in 1864, on The 

 Latest Discoveries in Maritime Affairs ; was 

 the chief promoter of the revival of arctic 

 exploration in Holland ; and contributed 

 other valuable services to science. He was 

 an honorary corresponding member of the 

 British Royal Geographical Society. 



