750 SCIENTIFIC RECORD FOR 1883. 



Schwarznecker (G.) und W. Zipperlen. Beschreibung der vorziig- 

 lichsteu Pferde-Rassen. Gesainmelte Aufsatze. Zugleich Textband 

 zu Volkers, Abbildungen vorziiglicken Pferde-Rassen. 2. verm. Aufl. 

 Stuttgart, Schickhart & Ebner, 1883. (8vo. 44 pp., 1 pi.) 



Espeut (W. Bancroft). On the Acclimatization of the Indian Mun- 

 goos. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1882, pp. 712-714. 



Fischer (Johann von). Das Frettchen (Fcetorius furo). Eine An- 

 leituug zu dessen Zucht, Pflege, und Abrichtung. Mit 1 Taf. und 

 6 Abbild. Frankfurt a. M., Mahlau und Waldschmidt, 1883. (8vo. 

 viii, 96 pp. M. 4.) 



Thomas (Oldfleld). On Mustela albinucha Gray. Ann. & Mag. Nat. 

 Hist., (5), Vol. 11, pp. 370-371. 



necrology of zoologists, 1883. 



Barrande (Joachim), an eminent paleontologist, noted especially for 

 his investigations of the paleozoic fossils of Bohemia, at Prague, in 

 his eighty-fourth year. 



Bertillon (Adolphe), naturalist and statistician, died March 3, aged 

 sixty-one years. 



Carbonnier (Pierre), pisciculturist. 



Chadbourne (Paul A.), president of Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege, died February 16. 



Forbes (William Alexander), prosector to the Zoological Society 

 of London, a learned zootomist and ornithologist. Died of dysentery 

 at Shongo, on the Niger Eiver, January 14, aged 28. 



Heer (Oswald), of Zurich, a noted paleontologist, born in 1809 at 

 Lausanne. Died September 27. 



Kowalevsky (Wilhelm), professor of paleontology in the Univer- 

 sity of Moscow, a most acute paleontologist and systematic zoologist. 



Knorlein (Josef), entomologist. Died at Linz, February 12, in the 

 seventy-eighth year of his age. 



Leconte (John Lawrence) , an eminent zoologist, especially noted 

 for his writings on the Coleoptera of the U. S., born in New York 

 May 13, 1825. Died at Philadelphia November 15. 



Muller (Hermann), of Lippstadt, celebrated for his studies on the re- 

 lations between flowers and insects. Died of inflammation of the 

 lungs at Prad, in Tyrol, August 25. 



Nilsson (Sven), a distinguished Swedish zoologist, died at Lund, No- 

 vember 30, at the age of 97 years. 



Pacini (Filippo), professor of anatomy in the University of Florence, 

 well known in connection with his studies on Asiatic cholera and 

 artificial respiration. 



Parker (Charles F.), curator of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 

 Philadelphia. Died September 7. 





