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ers in the field of eliemistry in Great Britain. His contributions, espe 

 cially in sanitary matters, have been most valuable. A biography will 

 be found in Ghem. News, xlix, 222. 



QuiNTiNO Sella, born July 7, 1827, died in March, 1884. He was 

 the author of many investigations in chemical mineralogy, and at the 

 time of his death was one of the honorary members of the German 

 Chemical Society, as well as president of the Accademia dei Lincei, 

 in Rome. 



Sten Stenberg, a Swedish chemist, born in 1825, died in July, 1884. 



PaulE.ThiSnaed died August 10, at his residence in the Cote d'Or. 

 He was the author of many original papers, especially in the field of 

 agricultural chemistry. 



Augustus Voelcker died in November, aged G2, having been born 

 September 24, 1822, at Fraukfurt-am-Main. He was professor of 

 chemistry to the Eoyal Agricultural Society of England, at Cirencester, 

 a position held by him since 1859. He contributed many original 

 ]mpers on agricultural chemistry, and was the author of several works 

 on the same subject. 



Henry Watts, born in London, January 20, 1815 ; died June 30, 

 1884. He has left behind him an enduring monument in the superb 

 "Dictionary of Chemistry" to which his name is attached. For a full 

 biography see Nature^ xxx, 217. 



James Thomas Way died in 1884, aged 63 years. He was eminent 

 in agricultural chemistry, having held the position of chemist to the 

 Royal Agricultural Society . He x\ as the author of many original papers 

 and a member of several learned societies. 



G. W. WiGNER died in November. He was former editor of the 

 Analyst, the organ of the Society of Public Analysts, and the author 

 of a prize essay on food adulteration, a subject on which he had a wide 

 reputation. 



Charles Adolphe Wurtz died in Paris, May 12, 1884. He was 

 born at Strasburg, November 26, 1817, and was graduated at the School 

 of Medicine in that city in 3843. In 1845 he went to Paris, and since 

 that date has held important positions in the Academy of Medicine and 

 in the medical faculty of the university. His researches, especially 

 in the field of organic chemistry, were numerous and of great influence. 

 For a full biography see Bulletin de la 8oci6l4 chimique de Paris, numSro 

 supplSmenta.ire, January, 1885, 



C. ZwENGER, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at the University 

 of Marburg, died March 15, 1884. 



In addition to the long list of chemists whose. decease is above no- 

 ticed, the following names of members of the German Chemical Society 

 must be briefly recorded : 



H. VON Baur, of Berlin. 



J. Brantlecht, of Wendeburg. 



R. Brix, of Brod, Hungary. 



