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Author of many voluminous zoological publications, one of the most con- 

 spicuous being " The Knowsley Menagerie." Born at Walsall in 1800. 



Gurney, Sir GoldsWOrthy. The inventor of the Bude light, and of 

 applications for ventilating fiery coal-pits and extinguishing fires in them by 

 the steam jet. 



Guthe, Hermann. Author of many excellent geographical text-books. 

 Died at Munich, January 29th, 1874, in the fiftieth year of his age. 



Hanbury, Daniel. A high authority in the matter of the history and 

 sources of drugs, his " Pharmacographia " being his most important work. 

 Died March 24th, in London, of typhoid fever, at the age of forty-nine. 



Hardwicke, Robert. Publisher of many important scientific serial and 

 other works. Died in London, March 8th. 



Hays, William J. A prominent American artist, especially skilled in 

 the delineation of wild animals. Died in New York, March 13th, at the 

 age of forty-five. 



Head, Sir Francis Bond. A well-known engineer, and at one time 

 Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada. Author of several popular works 

 of travel. Died in July, at the age of eighty-two. 



HenwOOd, William J. A zealous investigator in reference to subter- 

 ranean temperatures, mineral veins, the conducting power of various rocks, 

 etc. Died in Penzance, August 5th, at the age of seventy-one. 



Kiernan, Francis. An eminent zoologist and anatomist. An exam- 

 iner for many years of the Royal College of Surgeons. Died December 31st, 

 1874, in the seventy-fifth year of his age. 



Lankester, Dr. Edwin. One of the originators of the British Associa- 

 tion. Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science. Pub- 

 lisher of many works on natural history, the best known being his " Half 

 Hours with the Microscope." Born in 1814. Died at Margate, of diabetes, 

 October 30th, in his sixty-first year. 



Lapham, Dr. Increase A. Prominent as a naturalist, geologist, sur- 

 veyor, and meteorologist. Founder of the Wisconsin Academy of Natural 

 Sciences and Arts. Author of an important work upon " The Ancient 

 Monuments of AVisconsin." Discoverer of many new species of shells. Born 

 at Palmyra, N. Y., March 7th, 1811. Died at Milwaukee, September 14th, 

 in the sixty-fifth year of his age. 



Le Besque, M. The oldest correspondent of the Geometry Section in 

 the Academy of Sciences of Paris. Died at Bordeaux, June 12th. 



Le Font, Alexander de. Director of the Arcachon Museum. Distin- 

 guished for important discoveries in practical oyster-culture. Died at the 

 age of forty-five. 



Logan, Sir William E. An eminent mining engineer and geologist. 

 Chief of the Geological Survey of Canada from 1842 to 1870. Born at Mon- 

 treal, where he also died, at the age of seventy-eight, June 28th. 



