530 SCIf:NTIFIC RECORD FOR 1884. 



The iudex committee consists of R. Carrington Bolton, Ira Remsen, 

 F. W. Clarke, Albert R. Leeds, and Alexis A. Julien. 



Comnnmications should be addressed to H. Carrington Bolton, care 

 of Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. 0. 



NECROLOGY OF CHEMISTS, 1884. 



J. A. Barral, a well-known agricultural chemist of France, the edi- 

 tor of Arago's works, as well as of many important agricultural journals, 

 died in Paris in September, aged 65 years. 



Adolf von Bruning died April 21, 1884. He was born January 10, 

 1837 ; Briining was one of the founders of the important establishment 

 for the manufacture of the coal-tar dye-stuffs, located at Hochst-am-Main, 

 and known by the firm-name Meister, Lucius & Briining. 



Otto Burg died November 9, 1884. He had been for many years 

 director of large chemical works in various parts of Germany. 



AMliiDEE Caillot died November, 1884, aged nearly SO years. He 

 was for many years professor of chemistry in Strassburg, and counted 

 among his pupils Wurtz, Willm, Schiitzenberger, and many other emi- 

 nent men. For a fuller biography see Bull. soc. chim.. xlii, 610. 



E. Carstanjen, professor of chemistry at the University of Leipsic, 

 died in Leipsic, July 13, aged 49 years. 



Robert Roscoe Felix Davey, born about 1842, in London, died in 

 1884. Since 1867 he was a fellow of the Chemical Society of London. 



Victor Dessaignes, born at Vendonie, December 30, 1800, died in 

 1884. He was the author of much original work chiefly in pliysiological 

 chemistry. He was one of the honorary foreign members of the London 

 Chemical Society. 



Jean Baptiste Dumas died April 1 1, 1884, at Cannes, where he had 

 gone for his health. Dumas was born in 1800, at Alais, France, and for 

 sixty years past has been one of the foremost chemists of France. A 

 full biography (with portrait) was published in Nature, xxi, February 6, 

 1880. 



J. P. L. Girardin died early in June, 1884, in the eighty-third year 

 of his age. He filled chairs of chemistry in Rouen, Lille, and Clermont, 

 and published several important works. 



Edward J. Hallock died March 22, at his home in Peekskill, X. Y. 

 He was born June 19, 1845, was graduated at Columbia College in 1869, 

 and at the University of Heidelberg in 1878. He had filled chairs ot 

 (;hemistry in several colleges, and was also engaged in editorial work. 



A. Henninger died in Paris, October 4, 1884, aged 34. He hehl 

 the chair of chemistry in the lilcole Muuicipale de Chimie, and was 

 one of the editors of Science ct Xature. He was a pupil of Wurtz. 



Jaimes Hogarth, born November 17, 1858, iq Androssau; died in 

 Philadelphia in 1884. He was at one time in the employ of Mr. J. B. 

 Hannay, of Glasgow, and later of the United States Government, at 

 Newport, R. I. 



