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large number of entomological charts, for agricultural or other 

 economic purposes. A short time before her death Miss Ormerod 

 was elected an honorary member of the Bath and West of England 

 Society for her services to agriculture. Her energy and perseverance 

 were remarkable, and her sister writes that she mastered a language 

 at the age of sixty in order to advance her entomological studies. 



Apart from her scientific work. Miss Ormerod took great interest 

 in the distribution of serviceable and healthy literature to the poorer 

 classes, and rejoiced in furthering many benevolent and charitable 

 objects. It is difficult to estimate the loss that has fallen on Miss 

 Eleanor Ormerod in the death of this talented and devoted helpmate. 



We regret to record the death of Maurice Versupuy, who had 

 only just returned to France after his daring and rapid march across 

 Africa, from Mombasa to the Congo. He left Mombasa in the 

 summer of 1895, ^'^d marched along the Uganda road to Fort Smith 

 in the Kikuyu country. Thence he proposed to visit Kenya, but 

 although his caravan was powerful he was unable to overcome the 

 opposition of the natives and reach that mountain, either through 

 Kikuyu or across Laikipia. He had a hard fight with the Masai 

 south of Lake Naivasha, during which Dick of Mombasa was slain. 

 Versupuy had another conflict with natives further west, but reached 

 the Congo in safety. He returned to Chantilly, where he died of 

 fever a few days later. 



Dr. J. M. Toner, of Washington, died on July 30, aged 71. He 

 founded the Toner lectures, and in 1882 gave his magnificent library 

 of 28,000 books and 18,000 pamphlets to the Congressional Library. 

 He was also a writer and researcher on medical science. 



We have also to record the deaths of: — Samuel H. Parkes, the 

 astronomer, whose early writings on entomology are well known ; Mr. 

 Carriere, of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, author of many works 

 on plant variation, on August 18, aged 79 ; LuiGi Palmieri, Director 

 of the Vesuvius Observatory, aged 89 ; Professor Egli, editor of the 

 " Nomina Geographica," and a well-known geographer, aged 73 ; 

 Professor K. Gunther, anatomist, aged 74, in Wynne, on July 13 ; 

 the well-known geologist and Alpine explorer. Dr. F. Simony, in St. 

 Galle, on July 20, aged 83 ; the dipterologist, W. Tief, Professor in 

 Villach, Carinthia ; Joseph Dwight Whitney, Professor of Geology 

 and Metallurgy at Harvard University, on August 19, aged 76 ; 

 Albert N. Prentiss, for twenty-eight years Professor of Botany and 

 Horticulture at Cornell University, at Ithaca, on August 14 ; F. 

 A. A. Skuse, entomologist at the Australian Museum, who had lately 

 been working at Australasian Diptera ; and George Brown Goode, 

 Assistant-Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, on September 6. 



