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number of years a member of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, 

 and took considerable interest in the work of the Geelong Field 

 Naturalists' Club." 



The Rev. J. G. Morris, whom the American Naturalist describes 

 as one of the fathers of American entomology, died in Lutherville, 

 near Baltimore, on October 10, aged 92. His catalogue of the lepi- 

 doptera, published in i860 by the Smithsonian Institution, and his 

 Synopsis of Diurnal and Crepuscular lepidoptera are the works by 

 which he was best known to entomologists. 



A full account and a bibliography of Johannes Frederik 

 Johnstrup, of Copenhagen, whose death we announced in our last 

 February number, p. 138, is contributed by Victor Madsen to 

 vol. xvii. of the Forhandlingar of the Geological Society of Stock- 

 holm, pp. 85-96. 



Other deaths recorded are those of : E. A Wunsch, a local 

 geologist of note, who spent his earlier years in the neighbourhood of 

 Glasgow, and his later ones in Cornwall, in December, 1895 '■> Rev. 

 W. Thompson, the author of " Florida Sedbergensis," who was born 

 at Mallerstang in 1843, and died at Sedbergh on June 6, 1895 > M. S. 

 Bebb, of Rockford, Illinois, well-known for his work on the willows, 

 in California, on December 5 last ; Dr. F. P. Porcher, Professor of 

 Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Medical College of the 

 State of South Carolina, and author of numerous works on pharma- 

 ceutical botany, at Charleston, S. C, on November 19 ; General 

 O. v. Radoszkowski, the hymenopterologist, in Warsaw, last May ; 

 A. P. Kosticher, Director of Agriculture in Russia, who created the 

 first laboratory in Russia for the study of soils and agricultural pro- 

 ducts, and wrote a large work on the black earth of Southern Russia ; 

 Dr. Peter S. Popow, extraordinary Professor of Physiology at 

 Dorpat University ; Dr. Teichmann, formerly Professor of Anatomy 

 at Cracow ; Dr. A. von Brunn, Professor of Anatomy at Rostock 

 University, on December 10, aged 46 ; Dr. K. B. Schiedermayr, 

 the botanist, in Kirchdorf, Austria, on October 29 ; Professor G. 

 Krabbe, plant-physiologist, formerly of Berlin, at Wonsahl, near 

 Ibbenburen, in Westphalia, on November 3, aged 40 ; O. Borchert, 

 African explorer, on November 13, in Ludwigslust ; Dr. Paolo 

 Galardi, Professor of Natural History in- the Lyceum of Siena, on 

 December 8, 1895 > Dr. Achille Quadri, Professor of Zoology at 

 Siena University, on December 17, 1895 '■> the Polish botanist, Dr. 

 F. Berdau, on November 27; and Antonio de Castilio, founder 

 and director of the Geological Survey of Mexico, who died in the 

 City of Mexico on October 27. 



