230 NATURAL SCIENCE. March, 1894. 



Professor at the Vladimir University, Kieff. The following year he 

 undertook, with von Baer, a voyage in the Arctic Seas and Lapland. 

 Charged shortly after by the Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, 

 he explored Northern Siberia, and made, between 1842-1845, a difficult 

 and perilous journey. The results of his work were given in "Voyage 

 dans I'extreme nord et dans Test de la Siberie " (St. Petersburg, 1848). 

 He added to this work another dealing with the natural history and 

 physical conditions of Russia in Asia. Returning to St. Petersburg in 

 1845, he became privy councillor, and was made secretary of the Academy 

 of Sciences from 1855-57. ^^ 1859 he was President of the Society of 

 Economics but retired soon after, on account of ill-health to Livonia. 



JUSTUS KARL HASSKARL. 

 TTASSKARL, the botanist, died on January 5 at Cleve in the 

 -*- ■*■ Rhine Province. He was formerly co-director of the botanic 

 garden at Buitenzorg, Java, where he introduced the Cinchona and 

 for some time actively superintended its cultivation. The Miinchenev 

 Allgemeine Zeitung in announcing his death, remarks that he died in 

 moderate circumstances, although he had been instrumental in con- 

 ferring on his fellow countrymen so great a boon. He was also the 

 author of numerous papers dealing with the Flora of India and the 

 Malay Archipelago. 



THE McGill University, Montreal, has lost a valuable benefactor 

 in the person of Mr. Peter Redpath, who died last month at 

 Chislehurst, Kent, at the age of 73. Until his retirement, Mr. 

 Redpath followed the business of a sugar-refiner at Montreal. In 

 1880, he founded the Peter Redpath Museum, in the grounds of 

 McGill University, the finest Natural History Museum in Canada ; 

 and last year he presented to the University a new spacious library, 

 capable of holding 130,000 volumes. 



WE are also informed of the death of Mr. Charles Otley Groom, 

 who later assumed the style of His Most Serene Highness the 

 Prince of Mantua and Montferrat. Mr. Groom left a large and 

 valuable collection of Natural History specimens, and we understand 

 that the cabinets of fossils and minerals have been purchased by Mr. 

 R. F. Damon, of Weymouth. 



'"PHE following deaths are also announced : Sir Harry Verney, the 

 1 Father of the Agricultural Society ; General Sir C. P. 

 Beauchamp Walker, Foreign Secretary to the Geographical 

 Society ; and Edmond Fremy, Director of the Museum of Natural 

 History at Paris. 



