382 SCIENTIFIC RECORD FOR 1882. 



Prof. Jolin William Draper, born in En/^^Iand May 5, 1811, died in 

 New York January 4, 1882; best known by his scientific work in acti- 

 nometry and by bis valuable historical and medical works. 



Prof. E. Plantamour, born in Geneva in 1815, died September 7, 1882, 

 Beside his extensive works in astronomy and geodesy, pendulum, &c.y 

 he will always be remembered in meteorology for his contributions to 

 barometric hypsometry. {Nature, xxvi, p. 505.) 



The death is announced, in July, 1882, of G. C. Brauer, for a long 

 time mechanician to the Pulkova Observatory, and latterly, also, to the 

 Central Physical Observatory. Kussiau astronomers and physicists 

 have greatly profited by his remarkable ability in the construction of 

 scientific instruments. 



Liitke, the well-known Eussian navigator and explorer, born at St. 

 Petersburg September 20, 1797, died August, 188!?. His explorations 

 of the coast of ISTova Zembla, J 821 to 1824, and his voyage around the 

 world, 1826 to 1828, in which Lenz was the chief of the scientific staif, 

 gave him a prominent i)osition in the geographical world. {Nature^ 

 XXVI, p. 447.) 



Giffard, born in 1825, died April, 1882. This eminent French engi- 

 neer is known the world over as the inventor of the famous injector, and 

 to meteorologists by his construction of the great captive balloon at 

 Paris and its utilization for meteorological observations. {Nature, xxi^ 

 p. 591.) 



The Eev. Humphrey Lloyd, D. D., provost of Trinity College, Dub- 

 lin, died on the 17th of June, 1881, at the age of eighty-one years. Dr. 

 Lloyd's contributions to scientific literature have been many and im- 

 portant. His father had been provost before him, and his own life has 

 been equally divided between devotion to science (1824 to 1862) and to 

 education (1862 to 1881). Optics, magnetism, and meteorology have all 

 been advanced by his labors. In company with Sir John Herschel he 

 succeeded in carrying out the desire of the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, that tke British Government should carry on 

 magnetic and meteorologic observations throughout the globe. {Nature^ 

 January 20, 1881, xxiii, pp. 275 and 292.) 



IL — a General treatises; & History; c Climate. 



The second edition of Thomson and Tait's Treatise on Natural Phi- 

 losophy, Vol. I, Parts I and II, is in the press; so also a volume of 

 mathematical and physical papers, by Sir William Thomson, relating 

 especially to thermodynamics and to be followed soon by other vol- 

 umes. The second and third volumes of Professor Stokes' mathemati- 

 cal and physical papers are also nearly completed. {Nature, xxv, p. 613.) 



Professor Oberbeck publishes in Wiedeman's Annalen a memoir on the 

 motions of the atmosphere on the surface of the earth, in which the most 

 recent principles of aero-dynamics find full application. This work m 



