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Pictet, Adolphe. An eminent writer on ethnology and comparative 

 philology. Died at Geneva, in December, at the age of seventy-six. 



Ponier, Porter. A most promising student of physical science. Died 

 at Newark, New Jersey, June 11th, at the age of twenty-three. 



Redmond, M. An English missionary traveler in Afiica. 



Redtenbacher, Dr. Ludwig". Director of the imperial Zoological Mu- 

 seum of Austria. Author of numerous works on entomology, etc. Died at 

 Vienna, February 8th, at the age of sixty-three. 



ReUSChle, Professor K. G. Author of many works on geography and 

 physics. Died at .Stuttgart, May 23d, at the age of sixty-five. 



RizaUX, Professor. Radcliffe astronomical observer at Oxford. 



Rousseau, Henry. One of the founders of the Troy Lyceum of Natu- 

 ral History. Died in that city, September 19th, at the age of seventy-five. 



Russell, Alexander. Author of a standard work on the salmon. Died 

 in Glasgow. 



Scrope, George Poulett. Bom in London in 1797. An eminent ge- 

 ologist, his specialty being the investigation of recent and extinct volcanoes 

 and the phenomena of igneous rocks generally. Author of many important 

 works relating to these subjects. 



Sena, Baron von. Known as connected for many years with the ob- 

 servatory at Athens, which was founded by his father. Died at Vienna, 

 April loth, in the sixty-fifth year of his age. 



Simon, Dr. Professor of Surgery in the L^niversity of Heidelberg for 

 fifty-three years. Died recently in that city. 



Simskowski, George F. Best known from his report of travels of the 

 Russian mission through Mongolia to China. Died in the spring of 1875, 

 at the age of eighty-five. 



Smith, George. Connected with the British Museum. Distinguished 

 in the department of Assyrian antiquities and history. Died at Aleppo on 

 the 19th of August. 



Snell, Professor Ebenezer S. Professor of Mathematics in Amherst 

 College, Massachusetts. Died September 18th, at the age of seventy-five. 



TranSOn, Abel. An eminent mathematician and professor in the Poly- 

 technic School at Paris. Died in that city in August, at the age of seventy. 



Van Houtte, Louis. An eminent Belgian horticulturist, distinguished 

 for his scientific knowledge of plants and his numerous experiments in re- 

 gard to tlieir growth. Died May 9th, at the age of sixty-six. 



VignoleS, Charles B. A well-known English railway engineer. Died 

 in November, at the age of eighty-two. 



Von Baer. An eminent Russian naturalist. 



