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Dr. E. C. De Crespigny, born in 1821 at Vevey, Switzerland, 

 died at his home at Beckenham, Kent, on February 15 last. Though 

 of foreign birth, his education was chiefly English, and in 1845 he 

 entered the Indian Medical Service. In 1859 he became Acting 

 Conservator of Forests and Superintendent of the Government 

 Botanical Gardens at Dapoorie, near Poonah ; but, owing to illness, 

 was obliged to return to England in 1862, where he made his home at 

 Beckenham. The remainder of his life was devoted to the study of 

 botany, and the formation of a herbarium. In 1877 ^^ published a 

 small volume entitled " A New London Flora." A small collection 

 of coloured drawings of plants, made during his residence in India, 

 is in the Botanical Department of the British Museum. 



Mr. E. J. Glave, who died on May 12 at Underbill on the 

 Congo, had served under Stanley during the organisation of the 

 Congo State. He visited Lake Nyassa and Karanga in 1893, and 

 made some interesting notes on the burial place of Livingstone. 

 Mr. Glave was an accurate observer, and his skill as a draughtsman 

 gave additional value to the contributions, only too few in number, 

 that he added to the literature of the Congo basin. He did brilliant 

 work for the Free State, and his early death will be deeply regretted 

 by all whom he met in Africa, and who will long remember his bright 

 humour and unvarying good temper. 



Owing to the pressure on our space last month we were quite 

 unable to chronicle the deaths of Dr. Francesco Sansoni, the eminent 

 mineralogist of the University of Pavia ; Dr. Jules Croissandeau, 

 well known for his work on Coleoptera, of Orleans ; Dr. John 

 Anthony, the microscopist, who died at Birmingham on June 3 ; 

 Dr. F. E. Neumann, the physicist, who passed away at Konigsberg 

 on May 23, at the age of 97; Dr. John Byron, the eminent bacterio- 

 logist of the Loomis Laboratory, in May ; Dr. F. MOller, of 

 Basle, the herpetologist, whose catalogues of the Reptilia and 

 Amphibia of the Basle Museum form valuable books of reference ; 

 Sir Samuel Wilson, a Royal Commissioner for the Fisheries 

 Exhibition, who died early in June ; A. W. Scherfel, the founder of 

 the Tatra Museum at Felka, who died on April 24 ; Professor Dr. 

 W. Voss, the mycologist of Vienna, who died at that city on March 30 ; 

 R. P. BoN, well known as a botanical collector in Tonking and Annam. 

 Dr. Gideon Moore, the mineralogical chemist of New York, died on 

 April 13, aged 53 years; Dr. H. F. C. Cleghorn, formerly of the 

 Forest Department of India, and for long president of the Royal 

 Scottish Arboricultural Society, in May; H. N. Sandbach, the 

 ornithologist of Denbigh, early in June; John H. Redfield, 

 botanist and specialist on vascular cryptogams, on February 28, at 

 Philadelphia, in his 8oth year ; and Pietro Doderlein, Professor 

 of zoology and geology, in Palermo, on March 28, aged 84. 



