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P. NECROLOGY. 



The following list embraces the principal losses by death, 

 during the year 1873, in the ranks of men of science. 



AgaSSiz, Professor Louis. Born at Moltier, Switzerland, May 28th, 

 ]807. Died at Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 14th, in the 67th year 

 of his age, universally lamented. 



ArrOWSmith, John. Died May 3d, in his 84th year, A collector and 

 publisher of geographical works relating to almost every part of the world. 



Babinet, Louis. Bom at Lusignan in 1794. Died in Paris, October 

 20th, 1872. Author of various works on meteorology; made a member of 

 the Academy of Sciences of Paris in 1840, in the section of physics. 



Blyth, Dr. Edward. An eminent zoologist, and for twenty years cura- 

 tor of the Museum of the Koyal Asiatic Society of Calcutta. A specialist 

 and an extensive Avriter on the mammals and birds of Asia. Died in Lon- 

 don, December 27th, 1873, aged 02. 



Boeck, Dr. Axel John. Born in 1833. Died on the 6th of May. A 



member of the faculty of the University of Christiania ; distinguished as an 

 ardent investigator of the minute crustaceans of the Northern seas ; and more 

 recently, while in the employ of the Norwegian government, for his inquiries 

 into the habits of the herring and other economical food fishes. Author of 

 an elaborate work on the Northern amphipods. 



Branchley, Julius." Died in February. A traveler in the South Pa- 

 cific, on the geography and natural history of which region he had prepared 

 an elaborate work, Avith numerous plates. 



Breithaupt, Professor, of Freiberg. Died October 22d, in his 84th 

 year. For sixty years connected with the Mining Academy of Freiberg. Au- 

 thor of a " Hand-Book of Mineralogy, " in three volumes, and also of numer- 

 ous special papers. 



Burdine, M. Eminent as a mathematician, and as the first constructor 

 of turbine water-wheels. A member of the Academy of Sciences of Paris. 

 Died at Clermont-Ferrand, November 22d, at the age of 85. 



Butler, Thomas Belden. Died June 8th. At his death he was chief 

 justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut ; was the author of several pa- 

 pers upon the "Atmospheric System," the "Philosophy of the Weather," etc. 



Calvert, Dr. Grace. Died at Manchester, October 24th. An eminent 

 English chemist ; appointed professor of chemistry to the Royal Institution 

 at Manchester in 184G. Received patents for the preparation of carbolic 

 acid, and for a process of desulphurizing coke by means of the chloride of 

 lime. A juror in the International Exhibition at Vienna. 



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