OBITUARIES. 



The following deaths have been recently announced : — Dr. Oscar Baumann, 

 the African explorer, at Vienna, on October 12 ; Edward Case, on September 

 22, an English engineer well known for his method of groyning to prevent 

 encroachments of the sea on the coast ; Corxelio Desinioni, on June 29, in 

 Gavi, Italy, a historian of geography, in his 86th year; on September 19, in 

 Poturzyca (Galicia), in his 72nd year, Graf Wladimir Dzieduszycki, curator 

 and founder of his Natural History Museum in Lemberg, which is especially 

 rich in birds ; Prof. H. R. Geiger, sometime assistant on the U.S. Geological 

 Survey, at Springfield, Ohio, July 18; on July 2, in Regensburg, Wilhelm Geyer, 

 a well-known enthusiast on aquaria ; on July 1 6, Nikolaus W. Grigorjew, a 

 young phyto-palaeontologist, in Charkow ; Dr. Ragnar Hult, geographer and 

 botanist, at Helsingfors, in his 42nd year ; Paul Janet, the illustrious professor 

 of philosophy at the Sorbonne ; on July 2, in Para, the botanist, Dr. F. Kuhla, 

 about to start on a botanical expedition to the tributaries of the Upper Amazon ; 

 on June 30, in Stockholm, in his 78th year, Dr. Matts Adolf Lindblad, 

 for twenty years docent in botany in the University of Upsala, known as a 

 mycologist; in Budapest, in his 55th year, Gezavon Mihalkovics, the famous 

 anatomist, professor of anatomy and embryology in the University of Budapest ; 

 on October 16, Dr. Edward Orton, geologist, professor in the Ohio State 

 University, president of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science ; on August 9, Mr. William Pamplin, in his 93rd year, the doyen of 

 English botanists, who contributed largely to the " London Catalogue of British 

 Plants " ; Lady Prestwich, who recently published a biography of her husband, 

 at Parkstone, on August 26, at the age of 66 ; on August 2, in Buenos Aires, in 

 his 72nd year, Georg Ruscheweyh, a keen lepidopterist ; in Scutari (Albania) 

 the ornithologist Georg Freiherr Schilling von Canstatt ; on October 21, 

 James Simpson, for eighteen years curator of the Anatomical Museum, University 

 of Edinburgh ; W. A. Snow, late instructor in entomology in Stanford University, 

 drowned on October 10, in San Francisco harbour ; on August 3, in Lucerne, 

 Siegfried Stauffer, founder of the Natural History Museum there ; in 

 September, Dr. Carl Gustaf Thomson, curator of the entomological depart- 

 ment of the zoological museum in Lund, an authority on Hymenoptera ; at 

 Lakefield (Ontario), Mrs. C. P. Traill, botanist, in her 97th year; on September 9, 

 in Pols (Steiermark), the ornithologist Dr. Stephan Freiherr von Washington, 

 in his 41st year ; Dr. Henry Hicks, F.R.S., the distinguished geologist, on 

 November 18, at the age of sixty-two. 



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