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John- Samuel Bodgett. 



and blackwater fever. He obtained a 

 vast amount of important scientific 

 information in regard to Polypterus 

 and in other directions, and in his last 

 expedition accomplished the artificial 

 fertilizing of the eggs and the study 

 of their development. But he sacri- 

 ficed his life to attain this end, and 

 died before completing his work at the 

 age of thirty-one. 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS 

 We regret to record the deaths of 

 Dr. William Ashbrook Kellerman, pro- 

 fessor of botany at the Ohio State Uni- 

 versity, from tropical fever while en- 

 gaged in the study of the flora of 

 Guatemala; of Dr. Edouard Zeller, the 

 eminent historian of philosophy, at the 

 age of ninety-four years; of Dr. Will- 

 iam Edward Wilson, F.R.S., who had 



carried on important research in his 

 astronomical observatory and astro- 

 physical laboratory on his estate in 

 Westmeath, Ireland ; of Dr. H. C. 

 Sorby, F.R.S., known for his researches 

 on the microscopical structure of rocks 

 and metals; of Sir John Eliot, F.R.S., 

 eminent for his services to meteorol- 

 ogy; of Dr. A. Howitt, author of im- 

 portant anthropological works on the 

 natives of Australia ; of Sir Denzil 

 Ibbetson, known for his contributions 

 to the ethnology of India ; of Sir Alfred 

 Cooper, a distinguished London sur- 

 geon, and of Professor Laurent, pro- 

 fessor of mathematical analysis at 

 Paris. 



Major General A. W. Greely, 

 eminent for his arctic explorations and 

 his services to meteorology, having 

 reached the age of sixty-four years on 



