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the pioneers in working out the geology. He made two journeys 

 through Syria, the first in 1864-65, the second in 1875, and devoted 

 special attention to the Lebanon. He described the results in a 

 valuable little work entitled " Aus dem Orient." He was also much 

 occupied with other researches beyond his special domain, and devoted 

 special attention to the successful cultivation of the vine in Wiirtem- 

 berg. 



We regret to learn of the death on October 21, owing to an 

 accident on the lake, of Johannes Fkenzel, formerly professor 

 of zoology at Cordoba University in the Argentine Eepublic, and of 

 late years director of the biological and fishery station on the 

 Mliggelsee near Berlin. An account of the work here carried on so 

 successfully by Dr Frenzel, who was only thirty-nine years old, 

 was published in Natural Science for March 1897 by Professor 

 Anton Fritsch (vol. x. p. 170). 



Dr Justin Winsok, librarian of Harvard University and also an 

 energetic anthropologist and ethnologist, died on October 21, 1897, 

 aged 66. He was a great authority on the early history and carto- 

 graphy of America. 



The following deaths ai'e also announced : — Dr Harrison Allex, emeritus professor 

 of comparative anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania, and well-known as a writer 

 on mammals, at Philadelphia on Ifov. 14 ; E. P. Fraxz, nerve-anatomist, and assistant 

 to Professor E. A. Schiifer at University College, London ; Dr Mark Olivet, professor 

 of psychiatry in the University of Geneva, and author of several medical and hygienic 

 works, at Genoa on Oct. 24, aged 75 ; J.vmes Murray, professor of pathology in the 

 Lahore Medical College, on Nov. 8 at Simla, aged 32 ; Alberto Perugia, ichthyolo- 

 gist, at Genoa on Sept. 24, aged 54 ; Alexander Solon, student at the Brussels 

 University, in Banana at the mouth of the Congo, in Oct., aged 22 ; Dr Franklin 

 Stoky CoNANi', student of chaetognathous worms, at Boston, on Sept. 13, in conse- 

 quence of an illness contracted during the Johns Hopkins University Expedition to 

 Jamaica in the summer of 1897 ; Dr AVilhelm Moericke, privat-docent in mineralogy, 

 at Freiburg i. B., on Oct. 8 ; James Windoes, a well-known collector of fossils, at 

 Chipping Xorton, aged 58 ; Dr George H. Horn, the eminent entomologist, one of 

 the secretaries of the Philosophical Society, and formerly corresponding Secretary of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, at Philadelphia, on Nov. 25, aged 58 ; Gustav Stand- 

 fuss, lepidopterist, on Oct. 6, aged 82 ; Franc isque Guillebe.a.u, entomologist, author 

 of the catalogue of the Coeleoptera of Ain, at Plantay, aged 77 ; Dr G. Licocopoli, 

 assistant professor of botany at the University of Naples ; Horace W. L. Billington, 

 director of botanical gardens, Royal Niger Coast Protectorate, on Nov. IS, aged 28 ; 

 Karl Mueller, director of the Agricultural Experimental Station in Hildesheim, and 

 agricultural chemist, on Oct. 26, aged 50 ; Friedrich Stohmann, professor of agricul- 

 tural physiology and agricultural chemistry in the University of Leipzig, on Nov. 1, 

 aged 65 ; Dr Bernardin A. Martin, a zealous student of the flora of the Cevennes, 

 on March 31, at Aumessan (Gard) ; and Dr Albrecht Schrauf, the mineralogist of 

 Vienna, aged 59, in the middle of December. 



