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scientific world. His great work on the subject gave rise to much 

 discussion among speciaKsts, and a translation of it by R. B. Ander- 

 son was published in London in 1889, under the title " Teutonic 

 Mythology." The last writing from his pen was an essay on the 

 future of the white race, prefixed to the Swedish translation of Mr. 

 Kidd's " Social Evolution." Himself an earnest student, a friend of 

 science, and, while member of the Riksdag, a promoter of scientific 

 education, it was nevertheless his life-work to protest against a cold, 

 materialistic interpretation of nature, and to set before the younger 

 generation the half-forgotten claims of the ideal. 



Among other deaths which it is our misfortune to record, are 

 those of : Phillip Henry Lawrence, the mineralogist, and translator 

 of von Cotta's treatise on Lithology, who died towards the end of 

 October; Professor H. Hellriegel, the agricultural chemist, 

 director of the agricultural experiment station at Bernburg, best 

 known for his discovery of the fixation of free nitrogen by leguminous 

 plants, by the micro-organisms in the root nodules, who passed away on 

 September 24, aged 64; Dr. Ernest Baumann, the African traveller, 

 at Cologne, on September 4, at the early age of 24 ; Ephraim W. 

 Bull, the agriculturist, on September 26, aged 89 ; Professor F. 

 Berte of Catania, on September 9 ; J. Kostal, malacologist, and 

 assistant in the Bohemian Polytechnicum, on September 26, at 

 Prague ; Dr. E. Slizenberger, lichenologist, at Constance, on 

 September 27 ; the aged student of Lepidoptera, J. Fallou, in Paris, 

 on June ig, in his 84th j^ear; Dr. Riva, botanist and African traveller, 

 in Rome, on August 24 ; Dr. Gustav Wilhelm, Professor of Agri- 

 cultural Botany in the Technische Hochschule at Graz, on September 

 30 ; P. Bertkau, Professor of Zoology at Bonn ; Professor L. Duda, 

 student of Hemiptera, in Prague, last August ; and Dr. Jas. E. 

 Garretson, dean of the Philadelphia Dental College, on October 27, 

 aged 67. 



Our readers will find a portrait and a full and appreciative 

 account of the life and work of the iate Professor C. C. Babington in 

 the September number of the Journal of Botany, by the editor ; and in 

 the Botanical Gazette for August a biographical sketch by G. E. 

 Davenport, also with a portrait, of another botanist, Daniel Cady 

 Eaton, of whom we published a short obituary notice in our 

 September number. 



