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Counsellor of the Hungarian Ministry, his chief care being, we 

 believe, that of Education. V. Hantken's chief work was " A 

 Magyar Korona orszagainak szentepelei es szenbanyaszata," 1878, 

 a translation of which appeared about the same time in German as 

 " Die Kohlenflotze und der Kohlenbergbau in den Landern der 

 Ungarischen Krone." He was the author of many papers on the 

 Tertiary beds of his country, and paid special attention to the 

 Foraminifera and Ostracoda therein contained : his papers on the 

 former group occupying two and a half pages of Sherborn's 

 " Bibliography." His " ClavulinaSzaboi regetck Faunaja, " with its 

 sixteen beautiful plates, was really a monograph on the Foraminifera 

 of this horizon, and his studies on the Nummulites have been of 

 considerable value to others working in the same field. V. Hantken 

 visited this country for the last time on the occasion of the Inter- 

 national Geological Congress, 1888, when his amiability, courtly 

 polish, and enthusiasm endeared him to many friends. 



1T7E also have to record the death, at the advanced age of 87, of 

 VV Miss Anne Pratt (Mrs. Pearless), authoress of the well-known 

 " Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain." Miss Pratt's first 

 work on " Flowers and their Associations" appeared in 1826, and she 

 published many small volumes on Natural History, chiefly Botany. 

 She revised the last edition of her " Flowering Plants " so recently 

 as 1880. 



THE deaths are announced of the geologists, George Robert 

 Vine and D. Homfray, the former well known for his researches 

 on fossil Polyzoa, the latter a successful collector of Cambro-Silurian 

 fossils in Wales ; also of the Norwegian bryologist, Fantz C. Kiaer. 



