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Pease, Charles. An amateur naturalist ; obtained the first specimen of 

 Dendroica kirtlandice. Member of the Western Union Telegraph expedition 

 to the Yukon River in 1865. Died at Cleveland, June 11th. 



PeSChel, Dr. Oscar. An eminent German geographer. Editor of Das 

 Ausland for twenty years. Professor in the University of Leipsic. Author 

 of many geographical works. Died in September at Leipsic. 



Plath, Dr. Johann Heinrich. An eminent Chinese scholar. Author 

 of many papers on Oriental subjects. Died November 16th, at Munich, at 

 the age of seventy-three. 



Reslhuber, Professor. Director of the observatory at Kremsmunster, 

 in Austria. Died in September, in the sixty-eighth year of his age. 



Roberts, Edward. An architect and antiquary. Honorary Secretary 

 of the British Archaeological Association. Died in October, in the fifty-sev- 

 enth year of his age. 



Roome, James H. A taxidermist and collector of objects of natural 

 history. Died in New York, January 20th, at the age of sixty-five. 



Scherer, Carl J. A. T. A well-known mineralogist and metallurgist. 

 Author of many memoirs on chemistry, mineralogy, and geology, as well as 

 upon iron-smelting and the blowpipe. Died at Freiburg, August 20th, at 

 the age of about sixty-two. 



Schott, Dr. Arthur. A zealous explorer, especially in Texas, Mexico, 

 and Yucatan, and the Isthmus of Darien, and collector of objects of natural 

 history, and the discoverer of many new species of animals and plants. Died 

 at Georgetown, District of Columbia, July 26th, in the sixty-seventh year 

 of his age. 



Schrotter, Professor A. Perpetual Secretary of the Academy of Sci- 

 ences of Vienna, and Master of the Mint. Author of many important chem- 

 ical discoveries. Died April 15th, at the age of seventy-three. 



Schwabe, H. H. Noted formerly for astronomical researches. Discov- 

 erer of the periodicity of the solar spots. Died at Dessau, April 11th, in 

 the eighty-fifth year of his age. 



Seguin, Sell., M. Correspondent in the section of Mechanics in the 

 Academy of Sciences of Paris. Died at Annonay, February 21th, in the 

 eighty-ninth year of his age. 



Silveria, Conseiller Joaquim Henriques Tradessa Da. Director 



of the Meteorological Observatory at Lisbon. Died May 21st. 



Smirke, Sir E. Distinguished for his knowledge of manorial and terri- 

 torial rights and customs. 



Sundevall, Professor Carl J. Distinguished as an explorer and a 

 naturalist. Author of numerous zoological works. Curator of the National 

 Museum at Stockholm. Born in 1801. Died at the age of seventy-four. 



