644 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



March, William T. A resident of Jamaica, and specially interested in 

 its birds and plants. Author of several papers on Jamaica birds. Died at 

 an advanced age. 



Marvine, A. R. Born 1848. United States government geologist and 

 explorer. Died at Washington, March 2d. 



Meek, Professor Fielding B. One of the most distinguished of Amer- 

 ican paleontologists. Died at the Smithsonian Institution, December 22d, 

 aged fifty-nine. 



Melville, Andrew Smith. Lecturer on botany and geology in the 

 Edinburgh School of Arts. Died July 22d. 



Miller, Mrs. Widow of the late Hugh Miller. Died at the age of sixty- 

 four. 



Minascalchi-Erizzi, Count. A founder of the Italian Geographical 

 Society. Died December 30th, 1875. 



Mohl, Professor Jules de. Professor of Persian in the College of 

 France. Died at the age of seventy-six. 



Munzinger, Werner. A Swiss by birth ; an eminent explorer in Afri- 

 ca; author of several valuable works, and contributed largely to the journal 

 of the Royal Geographical Society. 



Napier, Robert. Born in 1791. An eminent citizen of Glasgow, dis- 

 tinguished among British engineers, and as the proprietor of the great estab- 

 lishment at Glasgow for the manufacture of marine engines, and as the build, 

 er of most of those of the Cunard steamers. Died June 22d, at the age of 

 eighty-five. 



New, Charles. A well-known missionary and traveler in East Africa. 

 Author of various notes of travel. Born in 1840. Died at Duruma, Febru- 

 ary 14th. 



Newman, Edward. An eminent naturalist, his labors having special 

 reference to entomology and the ferns. Best known as the editor of the 

 Zoologist and the Entomologist. At the time of his death in charge of the 

 natural-history department of the London Field. Died at Peckham, En- 

 gland, June 12 th, at the age of seventy-five. 



Noltke, Ernst Ferdinand. A veteran botanist of Kiel. Died Febru- 

 ary 13th, at the age of eighty-four. 



ParkeS, Dr. a well-known army surgeon ; author of many important 

 papers of physiological and biological merit. Died in March, at the age of 

 fifty-six. 



Pertz, Chevalier. For many years librarian of the Royal Library of 

 Berlin. Died in October. 



PfundS, Dr. Attached to Colonel Colston's expedition to Kordofan and 

 Dar Fur. Died at the latter place, August 23d. 



