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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



OBITUARY NOTES. 



Prof. Chester S. Lyman, of Yale Uni- 

 versity, died in New Haven, Coon., January 

 29th, aged seventy-six years. A sketch of 

 his life and works, and a portrait, were pub- 

 lished in "The Popular Science Monthly" 

 for November, 1887. 



M. Cosson, member of the French Acade- 

 my of Sciences, and author of several mem- 

 oirs on the flora of Algeria and Tunis, died 

 in Paris on the last day of the year 1889. 

 He was President of the Botanical Society 

 of France and Archivist of the Societe d'Ac- 

 climation. 



Dr. William Ramsay McNab, Professor 

 of Botany in the Royal College of Science, 

 Dublin, recently died, suddenly, of heart 

 disease. He was born in Edinburgh in 1S44, 

 his father, as his grandfather had been, being 

 Curator of the Botanic Garden there. He 

 studied at Edinburgh, where he was also 

 assistant to Prof. Balfour, and at Berlin, 

 practiced medicine for three years, after 

 which, in 18V0, he entered upon a biological 

 career. He introduced important reforms 

 in the method of teaching botany, chiefly by 

 adopting the method of Sachs ; was author 

 of numerous works or papers relating to 

 botany and fossil plants ; was a practical 

 student of geology ; and collected coleoptera. 

 He was appointed in 18S8 Swiney Lecturer 

 to the British Museum of Natural Sciences, 

 and was at the time of his death about to 

 begin a third course on fossil botany. 



Prof. Lorenzo Respighi, Director of the 

 Osservatorio Campidoglio, Rome, one of the 

 most eminent scientific men in Italy, died 

 December 10th. 



The people of Manchester interested in 

 the subject have decided to erect in that city 

 a memorial of James Prescott Joule, which 

 shall take the form of a white marble statue, 

 and also to set up a replica in bronze in some 

 public place in the city. An international 

 monument to James Watt is proposed, to be 

 erected at Greenock, his birthplace, and to 

 take the form of a large and thoroughly 

 equipped technical school. 



Senhor Jose Augusto de Sereza, curator 

 of the zoological department of the muse- 

 um at Lisbon, Portugal, who has recently 

 died, was the author of some useful mem- 

 oirs on African birds, and of museum cata- 

 logues of certain orders. 



Edouard Phillipps, an eminent French 

 mechanician and engineer, died December 

 14th, in his seventieth year. He left im- 

 portant works on mechanics and metallurgy, 

 and his " Lectures " on hydraulics and hy- 

 drostatics, published in 1875, was highly 

 appreciated. lie was made a member of the 

 Academy of Sciences, in the Section of Me- 

 chanics, in 1868. 



Among the recent foreign deaths is that 

 of the Italian physicist Govi, whose name is 

 closely associated with matters relating to 

 the history of science, particularly in his own 

 country. He prepared an interesting group 

 for the International Electrical Exposition of 

 1881 of instruments which had been used by 

 Galvani, Volta, and Nobili. 



Julien Sacaze, a young epigraphist and 

 archaeologist of great repute in the provin- 

 cial districts of France, has recently died. 

 He discovered a considerable number of pre- 

 historic monuments and sites in and near 

 the Pyrenaean departments, co-operated in 

 the foundation of the Pyrenaean Association 

 and of a more local society at Comminges, 

 and with Dr. F. Garrigo established the 

 " Revue des Pyrenees et de la France Meri- 

 dionale." The collections which he made in 

 the course of his investigations are described 

 as having been " superb." He left the man- 

 uscript of a work on the " Epigraphy of the 

 Pyrenees," which will be published. 



Vice-Admirax Cloue, who died in Paris 

 on the 25th of December, was best known 

 for the marine charts he constructed and for 

 his exertions to make of practical value the 

 property of oil in stilling the waves. When 

 he entered the service the French marine was 

 dependent on English or Dutch charts. He 

 substituted for these French charts, many 

 of which he prepared. He was born in 1817 

 and spent his life in the French naval serv- 

 ice or positions connected with it, was ap- 

 pointed Governor of Martinique in 1872, and 

 afterward held the position of Minister of 

 the Marine and the Colonies. He was a mem- 

 ber of the Bureau of Longitudes, of the Ob- 

 servatory and the Meteorological Council, 

 and had been elected to a seat in the Insti- 

 tute. 



Mr. E. J. Jones, since 1883 an officer of 

 the Geological Survey of India, who died Oc- 

 tober 15th, aged thirty years, was an associ- 

 ate of the Royal School of Mines and a 

 chemist from the schools of Zurich and 

 Wurzburg. He contributed several geologi- 

 cal and chemical papers to the publications 

 of the Survey. 



Mr. John Ta vernier Bartram, who died 

 recently at Stake's Point, Bermuda, in his 

 seventy-ninth year, was held in high esteem 

 among scientific men as a naturalist. Dur- 

 ing the forty-two years that he resided at 

 Stoke's Point, says "The Bermuda Colo- 

 nist," he made a collection of birds, fishes, 

 shells, and other natural curiosities, that has 

 long since come to be " one of the things 

 to be seen in Bermuda " ; and for the past 

 twenty-five years no scientific man who visit- 

 ed Bermuda and could get to Stoke's Point 

 ever failed to pay him a visit. He contrib- 

 uted articles to the local press on the natu- 

 ral history and geology of Bermuda, and 

 prepared hand-books on the cage-birds and 

 the shells of the island. 



