712 SCIENTIFIC KECOED FOK 1885. 



Websky, M. Ueber die Ein- uud Mehrdeutigkeit der Fundamental- Bogen-Com- 

 plexe fiir die Elemeuto mouoklinischer Krystall-Gattungen. Jabrb. Min., i, 79. 



WuLFF, L. Wachsen der Krystalle nur durcb Juxtaposition newer Molekeln. Zs. Kr., 

 X, 374. 

 Krystallisatiou in Beweguug. Zs. Kr., xi, 120. 



Wyrouboff, G. Quelques considerations sur I'isomerie et le polymorpbisme. Bull. 

 Soc. Min., VIII, 398. 



NECEOLOGY OF MINEEALOGISTS : 1885. 



E. E. SCHMID. — Born May 22, 1815, at Hildburgbausen ; died at Jena February, 1885; 

 for many years professor at Jena. His work was largely in geology, but he made 

 many contributions to .mineralogy, chiefly of a chemical nature. 



Benjamin Silliman.— Born December 4, 1816; died January 14, 1885; professor of 

 chemistry in Yale College, New Haven, Conn. He was an editor of the Americau 

 Journal of Science for nearly fifty years ; author of works on chemistry and x)hysics 

 and of many papers upon American minerals, especially the minerals of the West- 

 ern States and Territories 



