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to Morelia to take charge of the Museum, the College of Anatomy, 

 and the School of Medicine. He published numerous papers on the 

 Coleoptera of Mexico. 



Henry John Carter, who died May 4, at Budleigh Salterton, 

 was a distinguished medical officer in the Bombay army. He was a 

 voluminous writer on medical and natural history subjects, his chief 

 work being done on the Geology of Western India, and on the 

 Foraminifera and other low Invertebrata. 



Dr. George A. Rex, the eminent fungologist, died at Phila- 

 delphia on February 4. He was the first authority on the 

 Myxomycetes in the United States, and was a cautious and exact 

 botanist, avoiding the establishment of new species until thoroughly 

 convinced that they were really new to science. Dr. Franz 

 Posepny, the well-known geologist, died at Vienna on March 27. 

 He was born in 1836. Dr. Alfred Wilhelm Stelzner, professor of 

 geology at Freiburg, died on February 25. William Parker Snow, 

 so intimately associated with the Franklin expedition, died on March 

 12, in his seventy-seventh year. He was purser of the " Prince 

 Albert," Lady Franklin's search vessel, and published an account of 

 the voyage in 1851. Six years later he issued a second volume 

 entitled " Two years' cruise off Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia," a 

 record of his work in connection with the Fuegian mission. His 

 one object in life was the rescue of the Franklin expedition, of 

 which he protested, again and again, there might still be survivors. 



A portrait of Mr. A. G. More will be found in the Irish Naturalist 

 for May. 



From Naturae Novitates, which now comes to hand with greater 

 punctuality, we learn of the death of Dr. Eduard Rostan, an eminent 

 investigator of the Piedmontese Alpine flora, on January 15, at the 

 age of 69. Also of Claudius Rey, the entomologist, in Lyon ; and 

 of Dr. Robert Sachsse, Professor of Agricultural Chemistry at 

 Leipzig, which took place on April 26. 



Sir George Buchanan, who died on May 5, aged 64, had 

 resigned the post of medical officer to the Local Government Board 

 three years before. All his sanitary work, of such eminently practical 

 importance, was based on thoroughly scientific investigation. Some 

 account of his work and of his honours is contained in Nature for 

 May 16. 



