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Berlin, Heidelberg, and Paris. He became Prosector (1843) and 

 afterwards Professor at Giessen, and in 1849 became Professor at 

 Greifswald. In 1868, he went to Berlin University as Professor of 

 Surgery. He saw service in the field in 1866 and 1870, and was 

 created surgeon-general at the close of the Franco-Prussian War. 

 Bardeleben's best-known work was " Lehrbuch der Chirurgie und 

 Operationslehre," 1852, of which the eighth edition appeared in 

 1879-82. 



Paul Howard Macgillivray, well-known for his researches on 

 Australian Polyzoa, died at Bendigo, Victoria, on July 8 last. He 

 was a son of John Macgillivray, the son of the more famous William. 

 His contributions to the history of the Polyzoa began in 1859, and, 

 altogether he produced some two dozen papers on the subject in the 

 Trans. R. Society Victoria and other publications. He was an active 

 member of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, and looked after 

 the interests of the Bendigo Science Society, the Bendigo School of 

 Mines, and other institutions. The Victorian Naturalist states that his 

 fellow-townsmen propose to erect a memorial to mark their sense of 

 his usefulness to the town and to science. 



Dr. E. von Rebeur-Paschwitz, who died October i, 1895, ^t 

 the early age of 34, modified the horizontal pendulum of ZoUner, and 

 converted it into an instrument admirably adapted for recording the 

 movements of the ground, and especially those which are due to 

 strong^ and distant earthquakes. His work in this department of 

 seismology is of great and permanent value. Few men have laboured 

 so earnestly and with such success, even when they have not been 

 hampered, as he was, by continual illness, weakness, and suff'ering. 



The deaths are also announced of: — Thomas James Slatter, 

 the well-known collector of Gloucestershire fossils, on August i, at 

 Evesham, aged sixty-one ; Angelo Manzoni, the well-known geologist 

 and palaeontologist, at Ravenna, on July 14; Dr. Ernst de Sury, 

 Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Basle, on August 20; Dr. Rira, 

 botanist and African explorer, at Rome, on July 24; Dr. F. Miescher, 

 Professor of Zoology at Basle University, at Davos, on August 26, 

 at the age of fifty-one ; Dr. H. Senoner, the geologist, of Vienna, 

 on August 30 last. Dr. Demetrius Brandza, Professor of Botany 

 and Director of the Botanical Institute at Bucharest, who died on 

 August 15, at the age of forty-eight, was the author of " Histoire 

 botanique et therapeutique des Gentianacees employees en Medecine " 

 and a Prodromus of the Flora of Roumania (1879-83). 



The Kew Bulletin for September records the death, at Madras, on 

 August 17, of Mr. Andrew Jamikson, Curator of the gardens and 

 parks at Ootacamund, Milgiris. Formerly a member of the gardening 

 staff at Kew, Mr. Jamieson was appointed to Ootacamund in 1868. 



