282 NATURAL SCIENCE [October 



Me G. E. Grimes, whose appointment to the Geological Survey of 

 India we announced in October 1895, succumbed to an attack of 

 cholera at Thayetmyo, Burma, on the 11th April last. Mr Grimes 

 had shown great promise as a stratigrapher during the two and a half 

 years he had been in the service, and was only twenty-six when he died. 



Johan Lange, the distinguished botanist, died at Copenhagen, April 

 3, aged eighty. His principal works were a Manual of the Danish 

 Flora and the last ten volumes of the Flora Danica. He was Presi- 

 dent of the Danish Botanical Society for twenty-seven years ; for 

 twenty years Director of the Copenhagen Gardens ; and was also 

 Professor of Botany at the Agricultural College there. 



Among others whose deaths have been recently recorded are : — Fredrich Charles 

 Aplin, the ornithologist, at Bodicote, aged 43 ; Dr E. B. Aveling, formerly assistant 

 in physiology at Cambridge and professor of chemistry and physiology at New College, 

 well known as a populariser of evolution and a lecturer and writer on socialism, 

 died in London on August 4, aged 47 y«ars ; Evert Julius Boxsdorff, formerly pro- 

 fessor of anatomy and physiology at Helsingfors University, aged 88 ; Luigi Balzan, 

 the arachnologist of the University of the Ascension, Paraguay ; Axel Guttbrand 

 Blytt, professor of botany at Christiana University, on July 25, aged 54 ; Dr Ernest 

 Candez, the coleopterologist at Glain, near Liittich, on June 30 ; Pasquale Conti, the 

 botanist, who died at Largano after a lingering illness ; Dr Devry, the naturalist and 

 physiologist, best known for his researches into the pharmaceutical properties of quinine, 

 at the Hague, on August 7 ; The Right Hon. Murray Edward Gordon Finch- Hatton, 

 twelfth Earl of Winchelsea, well known for his agricultural interests, on September 7, 

 aged 48 ; Dr D. P. Frame, veterinary surgeon and microscopist, at Kansas City, on 

 February 25 ; Carlo Giacomini, professor of anatomy at Turin University on July 5 ; 



C. W. A. Hermann, the mineralogist, at New York on June 21, aged 97 ; Professor 



D. S. Kellicott, one of the best known microscopists in America, who died at the Ohio 

 State University in April last; Joao Maria Moniz, the botanist, on July 11 at Funchal, 

 aged 75 ; the metallurgist, Bernard Mobius, while travelling from America to Europe 

 on May 17, aged 46 ; Professor Park Morrill, of the Forecast division of the Weather 

 Bureau of the United States, died at Washington on August 8 of typhoid fever ; Henri 

 Vander Meuten, a well-known horticulturist, at Ixelles, Belgium, on July 24, aged 83; 

 Carmelo Scinto Patti, geologist and engineer of Sicily, born January 21, 1829, died 

 February 7, 1898 ; Achille Poitan, an enthusiastic naturalist of Aubervilliers and the 

 canton of Pantin, aged 23 ; Dr E. Lewis Sturtevant, the agronomist, on July 30 at 

 Framingham, Mass., aged 56 ; W. F. R. Suringar, professor of botany in the University 

 of Leyden, and Director of the Gardens and Herbarium there ; Major-General Robert 

 Gosset Woodthorpe, closely associated with the geographical exploration of India, 

 born 1844, died May 26, 1898, of whom a long obituary notice and a portrait appears in 

 the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. 



