1898] OBITUARIES 65 



of much careful and detailed investigation in a branch of plant 

 anatomy which has received considerable attention in recent years at 

 the hands of French and German botanists. Dr Hovelacque's death 

 has deprived palaeobotanical science of a keen and able worker; his 

 monograph on Lepidodendron sehujinoides, published in the MSmoires 

 of the Linnean Society of Normandy in 1892, is a work of consider- 

 able merit, and is recognised as one of the best recent memoirs on the 

 anatomy of Lejiidodnu/ro/i. In recent years municipal duties occupied 

 much of Hovelacque's time ; and he always regretted that circumstances 

 prevented him devoting himself entirely to scientific research. He was 

 in strong sympathy with English science, and with his confreres on 

 this side the Channel. 



We regret also to record the following deaths :— August Assmann of Breslau, 

 student of Lepidoptera ; on April 25, at Berkeley, Cal., U.S.A., aged 86, Melville 

 Atvvood, F.G.S. , noted for his metallurgical discoveries in the first half of the century; 

 mi February 10, at Oudenbosch, Holland, Victor Becker, the anthropologist; J. 

 GALLOIS, entomologist and anthropologist at Deville les Rouen ; on April 29, aged 82, 

 S \muel Gordon, M.D., President of the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland from 1893 

 till the end of 1897 ; the Rev. Walter Gregor, a zoologist, at Pitsligo, Aberdeen ; on 

 March 30, aged 53, James I'Anson, mineralogist and director of the Technical College 

 at Darlington ; Josef Jemiller, a student of Hymenoptera at Munich ; Dr S. Kelli- 

 cott, Professor of Zoology at Ohio State University, and general secretary of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science ; on April 12, at Meran, aged 49, 

 Ferdinand Krauss, geographer and anthropologist ; on April 5, at Gross Lichterfelde, 

 mar Berlin, Prof. Leopold Krug, noted for his studies on the West Indian flora, 

 aged 63 ; on May llth, aged 75, W. C. Lucy, F.G.S. , sometime president of the Cots- 

 wold Naturalists' Field Club, to the proceedings of which he contributed several papers 

 on geological subjects ; on April 10, in London, aged 82, General E. H. Man, noted for 

 his anthropological studies in the Andaman Islands ; W. M. Maskell, Registrar of the 

 University of New Zealand, and well known for his researches on the Coccidae ; on April 

 29, at Cede, Hanover, aged 83, Dr K. Noldeke, palaeontologist ; on April 7, at Arca- 

 chon, aged 37, Martial Jean Maurice Noualhiek, a student of the Hemiptera, 

 specially interested in the fauna of the Canary Islands ; Mariano de la Paz Graells, 

 professor of Comparative Anatomy at Madrid University, on February 13, at Madrid, 

 aged 80 ; at Yalta, Crimea, Leonid Pavlovitsch Ssabanejev, zoologist and editor of 

 the Russian Nature and Sport ; on March 27, at St Petersburg, Dr Gustav Sievers, an 

 entomologist and explorer of Upper Armenia and the Trans-Caspian provinces ; on 

 April 2, aged 64, the well-known histologist, Salomon Stricker, professor of Pathology 

 at Vienna University ; on May 5, the student of Diatoms, Eugen Weissflog, aged 75, 

 at Dresden ; on February 20, at Munich, aged 75, Conrad Will, the former director 

 of the zoological collections there. 



