210 NATURAL SCIENCE [September 



The death is announced of Theophile Chudzinski at Paris on June 

 18th, aged 55. By birth a Pole, he studied at Moscow until the insur- 

 rection of 1863 caused him to give up his studies and join in the move- 

 ment. This was followed by an incarceration of several months in 

 Austria, but escaping he made his way to Belgium and subsequently 

 to France, where he spent the rest of his life. It was in pursuing his 

 anatomical researches that he was first noticed by Broca at Paris, who 

 later gave him a post in the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Hautes- 

 Etudes. For several years Chudzinski assisted his master until the 

 latter's death, when he devoted himself to anatomical works, particu- 

 larly to the study of the brain and the anatomical resemblances and 

 differences between that of man and of the anthropoid apes. A large 

 number of anthropological and anatomical works were the result of 

 his minute researches. These, although edited in Paris, were not 

 published in French. 



LuciEN Biart, who died recently, was a talented author, and although 

 he chose to veil his scientific knowledge in the form of novels, that 

 knowledge was incontestable. A great love of travel took him in 

 1845 to Mexico, where he studied archaeology and ethnography. In 

 addition to his novels, the chief of which are " Le Eoi des Prairies," 

 " Entre deux Oceans," etc., he wrote a volume on the red races for the 

 Bibliotheque ethnologique, as well as a monograph on the Aztecs. 



The deaths are also announced of : — Paul Schutzenbergee, the physiological 

 chemist of the College de France, Paris, aged 67 ; P. C. Plugge, Professor of Pharma- 

 cology and Toxicology at Gcittingen ; Arminio Nobile, Professor of Geodesy, and author 

 of many valuable papers on astronomy, at Rome ; Professor Oertel of Munich, dis- 

 tinguished for his researches on the etiology of diphtheria ; Alfred Moquart, Pro- 

 fessor of Anatomy at Brussels, on June 5, aged 42 years ; Martin Wilckens of the 

 Agricultural School of Vienna, on June 10, aged 64 ; Count Victor Trevisan di 

 San Leon, the cryptogamist, in Milan, on April 8, aged 79 years ; Robert Douglas, 

 known for his work in arboriculture and forestry, on June 1, at Waukegan, 111., aged 

 84 ; G. Ossowski, the geologist, on April 16, at Tomsk ; P. B. L. Verlot, botanist, 

 at Verrieres-les-Buisson ; Rev. Robert Hunter, botanist, on Feb. 25, at Eppiug 

 Forest, aged 74 ; Samuel James Augustus Salter, botanist, on Feb. 28, at Basing- 

 stoke, aged 72 ; Geheimrat Heydenreich, student of Lepidoptera, on May 18, at 

 Osnabruck ; the coleopterologist, Daniel Muller, on May 22, at Barcelona ; the 

 oologist, C. Q. Aschan, schoolmaster at Kuopio, Finland ; Dr Anders Johan 

 Malmgren, a well-known ichthyologist and student of Annelida, of Uleaborg, Finland ; 

 Dr Wolfert and a mechanic named Knabe, who fell while sailing at a height of 1000 

 feet in a navigable balloon, at Tempelhof, near Berlin ; Ferdinand Beclard, palaeon- 

 tologist at the Brussels Museum, who was in the midst of important studies of Devonian 

 brachiopods ; R. Allan Wight, the economic-entomologist of Paerva, near Auckland, 

 N.Z., on the 22nd December 1896, aged 73 years ; Michael Angelo Console, professor 

 in Palermo University, and well-known as a cactus-hunter, on May 13, aged 85 ; 

 Peter von Tunner, of the mining district of Leoben, on June 8, aged 89 years ; 

 Dominik Hofer, the veterinarian of Munich University, on June 13, aged 80; Dr 

 Jules Jullien of Havre, the zoologist (Bryozoa) ; Charles F. Wells and J. W. 

 Jones, who were exploring the West- Australian deserts, killed by the natives in June ; 

 Friedrich C. Straub, the botanist, at Liberia, on March 21, aged 26 ; Alfred 

 Sutton, of the well-known firm of J. Sutton & Sons, Reading, on August 9, aged 80. 



