1100 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Necrology. — Dr. A. W. Chapman, the well-known Southern botanist, died sud- 

 denly at his home at Apalachicola, Florida, April 6, 1899, in his ninetieth year. Ilia 

 Flora of the Southern United States is well known to all systematic botanists. 



Charles Naudin. a distinguished botanist and a member of the Institute of France, 

 died March 19, 1899, in his eighty-fourth year. He was director of the experi- 

 mental gardens at Villa Tharet, Antibes, an adjunct of the Jar din des Plantes, 

 Paris. His work iu horticulture, and especially his elaboration and elucidation of 

 the cultivated species and varieties of cucurbits, gives him rank among the greatest 

 garden botanists of the century. 



Prof. C. Scheibler, the well-known sugar chemist, died at Berliu, April 2, 1899, 

 aged 72 years. While distinguished mainly for his contributions to the chemistry 

 of sugar and sugar-making, Professor Scheibler carried out important investigations 

 in other lines, his work on phosphatic slags being of especial value to agriculture. 



Prof. G. H. Wiedemann, the distinguished chemist and physicist and editor of 

 Wiedemann's Annalen (Annalen der Physik und C'kemie), died at Leipsic March 24, 

 1899, in the sixty-third year of this age. 



