428 NATURAL SCIENCE [December 



LOUIS CALOBI 



Born February 8, 1807. Died November 1897 



Louis Calori, the doyen of the Italian anatomists, was born at San 

 Pietro in Casala, Bologna. His father was a doctor of medicine in 

 practice at San Pietro, and young Louis attended the University of 

 Bologna, becoming M.D. in 1829. In 1830 he was elected assistant 

 professor of anatomy at his University ; in 1835 he obtained the chair 

 of comparative anatomy ; and in 1844 that of human anatomy. He 

 was ten times President of the Bologna Academy, and that body 

 published a bibliographical list of his works in the fifth volume of the 

 fourth series of the Ades. In the same year, 1884, the Academy 

 gave a fete in his honour. Calori's chief zoological work was done 

 among the Eeptilia, but his researches threw light on many other 

 groups of the animal kingdom. 



Captain Edward Yerbury Watson, who was killed by a sniper on 

 November 8 at Simla while with Sir Wm. Lockhart's camp, was well 

 known as an authority on the Hesperidae. He had arranged the 

 collection at the British Museum before returning to India. Captain 

 Watson was acting as Deputy-Assistant Commissary-General, and 

 had seen a good deal of service in Burmah. He was promoted to the 

 captaincy in 1895. 



Dr Otto Volger, whose death was announced at the end of October, 

 was a well-known German educationalist. His chief claim to posterity 

 was his worship of Goethe and his care of the Goethehaus, but he was 

 an indefatigable writer in the teaching of natural history and geology, 

 both in Switzerland and Germany, and has left many minor works on 

 those subjects. 



The deaths are also announced of : — 



Henry Calderwood, professor of moral philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, 

 on Nov. 19 ; Leopold Auerbach and Rudolf Heidenhain, professors of physiology 

 in the University of Breslau ; Hjalmar Heiberg, professor of pathological anatomy in 

 the University of Christiania ; E. Le Gros, professor of physiology in the new Univer- 

 sity of Brussels, aged 36 ; Edmund Drechsel, professor of pharmacology in the Uni- 

 versity of Berne ; Giuseppe Fissore, sometime professor of pathology in the University 

 of Turin, aged 82 ; W. Marme, director of the pharmacological institute of Gbttingen ; 

 Alexander Milton Ross, author of several works on the fauna and flora of Canada, at 

 Montreal, Oct. 27 ; Dr Mietschke, the German entomologist and naturalist ; Max 

 Sintenis, the German entomologist ; Isaac N. Travis, taxidermist at the American 

 Museum of Natural History ; Rev. Samuel Haughton of Trinity College, Dublin ; Dr 

 M. F. Heddle, late professor of mineralogy in the University of St Andrews ; GEORGE 

 Harry Piper, geologist of Ledbury, Herefordshire ; John Calvert, mining expert, 

 aged 86 ; and William Scott, director of Royal gardens and forests, Mauritius, aged 38. 



