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Peters (Wilhelm Carl Hartwig), director of the Zoological Museum 

 of Berlin, and a voluminous and esteemed author ; born at Colden- 

 biittel, Schleswig, April 22, 1815. Died at Berlin, May ! 



Sabine (Sir Edward), president of the Royal Society of London, and 

 who contributed in his early life to the literature of zoology. Died 

 at London, June, 1883. 



Scott (H. G.), Major-General B. A., the Superintendent of the con- 

 struction of the Great International Fisheries Exhibition at Syden- 

 ham. Died April 10, aged 61. 



Sumichrast (Adrian Luis Jean Francisco), a Mexican naturalist 

 and collector, born October 15, 1828, at Ivorne, Switzerland. Died 

 September 26, 1882, at Tonala (Chiapas), Mexico. 



Tolles (Robert B.), a distinguished maker of microscopes, at Boston. 

 Died November 18. 



Valentin (Gabriel Gustav), a physiologist of great erudition, at 

 Berne. Died June ? 



Zeller (Philipp Christoph), a very eminent entomologist, died of 

 heart disease at Griinhof, near Stettin, March 27, in the seventy-sixth 

 year of his age. 



