138 NATURAL SCIENCE. Feb., 1895. 



Dr. Frederik Johnstrup, of Copenhagen, the well-known 

 mineralogist, died on December 31, aged 76 years. He had devoted 

 considerable time to he geology of Greenland and Iceland. 



Professor Karl von Haushofer, who held the chair of 

 Mineralogy at Munich University, died in that city a few days ago. 

 Professor Haushofer was also the Director of the Technical High 

 School of Munich. 



Among other losses which it is our misfortune to record are the 

 following: — Captain Alexander William Maxwell Clark Kennedy, 

 of Knockgray, who died on December 23 at the age of 43. He was best 

 known as a traveller and ornithologist, and published a " Birds 

 of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire " under the pseudonym of " Eton 

 Boy " at the age of 16. Dr. Francis Bisset Hawkins, who died at 

 Bournemouth on Friday, December 7. He was the oldest graduate 

 of Oxford University, having taken his degree at Exeter College in 

 1 81 8. He was born in 1797, and was one of the men to whom Richard 

 Owen brought a letter of introduction when he came to London from 

 Edinburgh in 1826. Auguste Jaccard, the distinguished Swiss 

 Geologist, who died at Locle, Neuchatel, early in January. Jaccard 

 began life as a working watchmaker, but his attention was early 

 directed to the rich stores of animal remains in the rocks around his 

 home. Assisted in his researches by friendly hands, Jaccard eventually 

 became Professor of Geology at the University of Neuchatel. His 

 chief work was undertaken on the Purbeckian beds of the Jura. 



Professor Dr. F. A. Fluckiger, who held the chair of Pharma- 

 cognosy in Strassburg University and was the author of many works 

 dealing with that subject, died at Bern on December 13. He was 

 born in 1828. Dr. Max Kuhn, Professor at the Konigstadt Real- 

 Gymnasium, died the same day at Berlin. His chief work was upon 

 the ferns. Professor Dr. J. Schroter, of Breslau University, where 

 he held the chair of Bacteriology, died at Breslau on the same day 

 aged 58. The British Central Africa Gazette gives particulars of the 

 death of Surgeon Dr. McKay, of H.M.S. " Pioneer," who was killed 

 by a lion on October 26 in the S.W. corner of Nyasa. He had a 

 hand-to-hand fight with the beast on the 22nd, and though carefully 

 tended in camp, passed away after much suffering. Dr. McKay was 

 buried at Likoma. 



