542 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



CorneliSSen, Lieutenant J. B. Head of the marine branch of the 

 Utrecht Institute. Died at Brussels in March. 



CreSSOn, John C. Professor of Mechanics and Natural Philosophy in 

 the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, of which body he was president. At 

 the time of his death, January 12th, aged seventy, was chief-engineer of the 

 Philadelphia Park. 



DavieS, Professor Charles. A well-known author of mathematical 

 text-books, a West Point graduate, and Professor of Mathematics in Colum- 

 bia College from 1857 to 1867. Died on the 18th of September, in his sev- 

 enty-ninth year, 



Delvigne, Gustave. inventor of an explosive bullet and rifled gun. 



Desmoulins, Charles. President of the Linnrean Society of Bordeaux. 

 Died December 23d, 1875. 



D'Orbigny, Professor. An eminent French zoologist, and connected 

 with the Paris Museum of Natural History. 



Edwards, F. E. Author of several valuable monographs on various 

 groups of eocene mollusca. Died in England, October 15th, at the age of 

 seventy-six. 



Ehrenberg, Professor C. Gr. Born in Prussian Saxony in April, 1795. 

 An eminent microscopist, and author of several works on infusoria ; making 

 a specialty of the examination of deep-sea soundings, a great number of 

 new species of these minute organisms having been described by him. Re- 

 ceived many honors in the way of membership in learned societies; was Sec- 

 retary of the Academy of Sciences of Berlin, a member of the Royal Society 

 of London, and one of the eight foreign associates of the Academy of Sci- 

 ences of Paris. Died June 27th, in the eighty-first year of his age. 



Fearn, Thomas. An accomplished metallurgist of England. Died in 

 September. 



Forbes, David. Foreign Secretary of the Iron and Steel Institute. Died 

 December 5th, at the age of forty-nine. 



Fuckel, Leopold. Well known for his mycological writings, and his 

 published collection of fungi, entitled " Fungi Rhenani." Died at Vienna, 

 May 8th. 



Gamond, Thome. Born in Paris in 1798; educated in Holland; was 

 the originator of the Channel Tunnel enterprise. Died in February, at the 

 age of seventy-eight. 



Grattoni, Signor Severino. An Italian engineer, and superintendent 

 of the construction of the Mont Cenis Tunnel. 



Gray, Mrs. widow of the late John Edward Gray of the British INIu- 

 seum. Died at an advanced age. 



Guichenot, Alphonse. Well known for his connection with the chair 

 of herpetology and ichthyology in the Museum of Paris. An assistant on 



