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For twenty-tvvo years the writer carried on a regular corres- 

 pondence. His last letter, conveying thanks for English reviews of 

 his book forwarded, says, *' Such a reception of my work proves 

 indeed a great rest of happiness in the evening of my life." 



He wrote as perfectly in English as in German, and his many 

 letters, like his book, are full of beautifully expressed thoughts and 

 word-pictures in connection with his favourite study. 



John Cordeaux. 



We regret to record the deaths of : — Sir Spencer Wells, M.D., 

 surgeon to the Queen's household, and author of several important 

 surgical works, especially on ovariotomy, on February i, at Antibes 

 near Nice, aged 79 ; Henry Boswell, an eminent student of mosses, 

 especially those of Great Britain, at Headington, near Oxford (it is 

 hoped that his large collection will be secured by the University, of 

 which he was an honorary M.A.) ; Dr. Edward Ballard, F.R.S., 

 a distinguished investigator of causes of disease, and promoter of 

 sanitary reforms ; R, Warner, horticulturist, aged 82 ; on October 

 3, in Manchester, Joseph Chappell, entomologist, aged 67; on 

 September 11, in Paris, Dr. Emile Moreau, ichthyologist, aged 

 76 ; in Troyes (France), the mycologist, Major P. Briard ; 

 G. F. Schacht, who made improvements in the application of 

 certain drugs to the treatment of disease, aged 73 ; Dr. H. 

 VON Nordlinger, formerly Professor of Forestry in Tubingen ; at 

 Blumenthal, on December 23, Captain E. Dallmann, Antarctic 

 explorer, aged 66 ; on December 28, in Dantzig, the newly-appointed 

 Director of the Bacteriological Institute, Dr. T. J. Lickfett, aged 49 ; 

 on January 2, at Munich, Franz v. Baur, a well-known forestry 

 botanist and Professor at the University, aged 66 ; on October 26, at 

 Linz, Dr. A. Durrnberger, specialist on Salices, Rosaceae, and 

 Hieraceae, aged 59 ; on December 5, the botanist. Dr. Rudolph 

 Raimann, Professor of Natural History at Vienna Commercial College, 

 aged 33 ; on December 16, the Austrian Botanist, J. Ullepitsch, 

 aged 68; on January 13, in Vienna, the well-known cave-explorer, 

 F. Kraus, aged 63 ; the conchyliologist, Dr. A. L Brot, in Geneva, 

 on August 30, aged 75 ; Dr. S. Trinchese, Professor of Comparative 

 Anatomy and Embryology at Naples, and author of many biological 

 works ; in Verona, the herpetologist and conchyliologist, E. de Betta ; 

 J. H. Thiry, formerly Professor of Surgical Pathology in Brussels 

 University ; on January 9, at Rotterdam, the Director of the 

 Zoological Garden, A. A. van Bemmelen ; Dr. S. A. B. Lundgren, 

 Professor of Geology in the University of Lund ; at Copenhagen, on 

 January 12, C. Bahnson, a noted ethnologist and Inspector of the 

 Prehistoric Department of the National Museum, aged 42 ; Dr. 

 Charles Heitzmann, histologist, of New York ; Professor W. H. 

 Pancoast, a Philadelphia surgeon ; W. H. Ward, of Newark, N.J., a 

 horticulturist ; E. G. Lodeman, Instructor in Horticulture in Cornell 

 University, on December, at Mexico. 



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