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OBITUARY. 



CHARLES E. BENDIRE. 



Born Hesse-Darmstadt, April 27, 1836. 

 Died Jacksonville, Florida, February 4, 1897. 



MAJOR BENDIRE, the second volume of whose " Life Histories 

 of North American Birds " we have just received, came to 

 America in 1852, and enhsted two years afterwards in the U. S- 

 army. He utihsed his service at a number of distant posts in the 

 West, not only for fighting and treating with the Indians to good 

 purpose, nor only in exploring, surveying, and roadmaking, but also 

 in making collections and observations in natural history, many of 

 which were transmitted to Professor Baird at Washington. To 

 Allen, Baird, and Brewer, he wrote important letters, and subsequently 

 appeared as an independent author in his paper on the birds of south- 

 eastern Oregon. His collection of birds' eggs was famous, and he 

 was honorary curator of the department of oology in the U. S. 

 National Museum. He has, however, written on mammals and 

 fishes, as well as on birds. It is greatly to be regretted that his 

 splendid work on North American birds, has been left in an 

 incomplete state. 



CONSTANTIN, BARON ETTINGSHAUSEN. 

 Born 1826. Died February i, 1897. 



IN Professor Ettingshausen of Gratz, palaeontology has lost one of 

 the older school of enthusiastic workers who helped to found the 

 science of palaeobotany. Beginning in 1850, Ettingshausen continued 

 almost to the last the publication of important papers on fossil plants. 

 His best known work is that in which he deals with the venation- 

 characters as a means of distinguishing between various fossil leaves. 

 By the application of the process of nature-printing (Naturselbstdruck), 

 which seems to have been first used to any great extent in the 

 imperial printing office of Vienna, Ettingshausen published a very 

 large number of beautifully executed plates of leaf-venation. His 

 two handsome volumes on the Blattskelette der Dykotyledonen (1861), and 

 Die Farnkrduter der Jetzwelt (1865), are extremely useful aids to the 

 student of fossil leaves. The larger work prepared in conjunction 

 with Pokormy, and entitled Physiotypia plantantvi Austriacarum, 

 illustrates in a striking manner the possibilities of nature printing. 

 Among the works dealing with descriptive palaeobotany those on the 

 Tertiary plants of Austria, England, Australia, and other countries 

 are among the best known. In addition to numerous contributions 

 to Tertiary botany, Ettingshausen has written important memoirs on 



