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cated race of the gaur," the " supposed discovery that the tame gayal or 

 wild gaur inhabit the same country, being," in the words of IMr. Blanford, 

 " a singularly fine example of a nidus equceP {Nature^ v. 32, p. 243.) In 

 this coniiict of testimony and belief, more light is required before im- 

 plicit reliance in either of the contrasted opinions is safe. 



NECROLOGY OF ZOOLOGISTS, 1885. 



Baumhauer (Eduard Henry von), secretary of the Holland Society of Sciences 

 at Haarlem ; died at Haarlem, .January 18, 1885, in tlie sixty-sixth year of his age. 



Bland (Thomas), a well-known student of American land shells, long resident in 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., where he died August 20, 1885. He was born in Nottinghamshire, 

 England, October 4, 1809. 



Carpenter (Dr. William Benjamin), a very eminent English physiologist and 

 naturalist, died in London, November 10, 1885, aged seventy-two. 



Davidson (Thomas), an English palaeontologist, who dcA'oted the greater part of 

 his life to the stu dy of the Brachiopods, died at West Brighton, October 16, 1885, in 

 his sixty-ninth year. 



DuNKER (Prof.), a German palaeontologist and mineralogist, died at Marburg. 



Edwards (Henri Milne), one of the most distinguished zoologists of the century; 

 born October 23, 1800, at Bruges, Belgium ; died July 29, 1885, at Paris. 



EsMARK (Lauritz), director of the zoological museum of the University of Chris- 

 tiana, Norway, died in Christiana, December — , 1885. 



Guy (W. a.), F. R. S., an English physiologist and physician, died September 10, 

 1885, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. 



Harting (P.), professor of zoology in the University of Utrecht, died at Utrecht, 

 December 7, 1885. 



Heule ( ), one of the most eminent of European anatomists, died at Gottin- 



gen, May 13, 1885. 



Hough (Franklin Benjamin), for a time United States commissioner of forestry, 

 and a student of natural history, died June 11, 1885, aged sixty-two. 



Jeffreys (John Gwyn), an English cqnchologist, died at London, January 24, 

 1885. He was born at Swansea, Wales, January 18, 1809. 



JOLY (Nicolas), a French naturalist, died at Toulouse, October 17, 1885, in the 

 seventy-fourth year of his age. 



Kerr (William C), of the United States Geological Survey and long State geolo- 

 gist of North Carolina, died at Asheville, N. C, August 9, 1885. 



Martin (Philipp Leopold), a writer on zoological subjects, and especially on 

 muscology and taxidermy, died March 7, 1885, aged seventy. 



Nevill (Geoffrey), an English conchologist, author of a number of papers on 

 Indian shells, &c., died at Davos Platz, February 10, 1885, in his forty-second year. 



Parry (Maj. F. T. Sidney), an English entomologist, died February 1, 1885. 



Peale (Titian Ramsay), a contemporary of Say and Lesueur, and naturalist of the 

 United States exploring expedition commanded by Wilkes, died at Philadelphia 

 March 13, 1885, in his eighty-sixth year. 



Robin (Cilarles), professor of histology in the faculty of medicine at Paris since 

 1832, died at Paris, October, 1885, in the sixty -fifth year of his age. 



Rye (Edward Caldwell), an English entomologist, died February 7, 1885, aged 

 fifty-two. 



Skvertsoff (N.), a Russian zoologist, died from cold, resulting from a fall through 

 the ice in the river Don, January 11, 1885. 



