530 SCIENTIFIC RECORD FOR 1«84. 



The iudex couimittee consists of H. Carrington Bolton. Ira Remspti, 

 F. W. Clarke, Albert E. Leeds, and Alexis A. Julien. 



Communications should be addressed to.H. Carrington Bolton, care 

 of Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 



NECROLOGY OF CHEMISTS, 1884. 



J. A. Bareal, a well-known agricultural chemist of France, the edi- 

 tor of Arago's works, as well as of many important agricultural journals, 

 died in Paris in September, aged 65 years. 



Adolf von Bruning died April 21, 1884. He was born January 16, 

 1837 } Briining was one of the fonnders of the important establishment 

 for the manufacture of the coal-tar dye-stuffs, located at Hochst-am-Main, 

 and known by the firm-name Meister, Lucius & Briining. 



Otto Burg died November 9, 1884. He had been for many years 

 director of large chemical works in various parts of German}'. 



Am6d£e Caillot died November, 1884, aged nearly 80 years. He 

 was for many years professor of chemistry in Strassburg, and counted 

 among his pupils Wurtz, Willm, Schiitzenberger, and many other emi- 

 nent men. For a fnller biography see Bull. soc. chini., xlii, 610. 



E. Carstanjen, professor of chemistry at the University of Leipsic, 

 died in Leipsic, July 13, aged 49 years. 



Kobert Rosooe Felix Davey, born about 1842, in London, died in 

 1884. Since 1867 he was a fellow of the Chemical Society of London. 



Victor Dessaignes, born at Vendome, December 30, 1800, died in 

 1884. He was the author of much original work chiefly in physiological 

 chemistry. He was one of the honorary foreign members of the London 

 Chemical Society. 



Jean Baptiste Dumas died Ai)'ril U, 1884, at Cannes, where he had 

 gone for his health. Dumas was born in 1800, at Alais, France, and for 

 sixty years past has been one of the foremost chemists of France. A 

 full biography (with portrait) was published in Nature, xxi, February 6, 

 1880. 



J. P. L. GiRARDiN died early in June, 1884, in the eighty-third year 

 of his age. He filled chairs of chemistry in Rouen, Lille, and Clermont, 

 and published several important works. 



Edward J. Hallock died March 22, at his home in Peekskill, N. Y. 

 He was born June 19, 1845, was gradnnted at Columbia College in 1869, 

 and at the University of Heidelberg in 1S7S. He had filled chairs ot 

 chemistry in several colleges, and was ajso engaged in editorial work. 



A. Henninger died in Paris, October 4, 1884, aged 34. He held 

 the chair of chemistry in the ficole Municipale de Chimie, and was 

 one of the editors of Science ct Nature. He was a pupil of Wurtz. 



JajVIES Hogarth, born November 17, 1858, in Androssan; died in 

 Philadelphia in 1884. He was at one time in the employ of Mr. J. B. 

 Hannay, of Glasgow, and later of the United States Government, at 

 Newport, E. I. 



