1898] OBITUARIES 65 
of much careful and detailed investigation in a branch of plant 
anatomy which has received considerable attention in recent years at 
the hands of French and German botanists. Dr Hovelacque’s death 
has deprived palaeobotanical science of a keen and able worker ; his 
monograph on Lepidodendron selaginoides, published in the Mémoires 
of the Linnean Society of Normandy in 1892, is a work of consider- 
able merit, and is recognised as one of the best recent memoirs on the 
anatomy of Lepidodendron. In recent years municipal duties occupied 
much of Hovelacque’s time; and he always regretted that circumstances 
prevented him devoting himself entirely to scientific research. He was 
in strong sympathy with English science, and with his confréres on 
this side the Channel. 
We regret also to record the following deaths:—Aucust AssMANN of Breslau, 
student of Lepidoptera ; on April 25, at Berkeley, Cal., U.S.A., aged 86, MELVILLE 
Atwoop, F.G.S., noted for his metallurgical discoveries in the first half of the century ; 
on February 10, at Oudenbosch, Holland, Vicror Brcxer, the anthropologist; J. 
GALLOIS, entomologist and anthropologist at Déville lés Rouen ; on April 29, aged 82, 
SamvueEL Gorpon, M.D., President of the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland from 1893 
till the end of 1897 ; the Rev. WALTER GREGOR, a zoologist, at Pitsligo, Aberdeen ; on 
March 30, aged 58, James T’ANSON, mineralogist and director of the Technical College 
at Darlington ; JosEF JEMILLER, a student of Hymenoptera at Munich ; Dr 8S. KEttr- 
corT, Professor of Zoology at Ohio State University, and general secretary of the 
American Association for the Advancement of Science ; on April 12, at Meran, aged 49, 
FERDINAND Krauss, geographer and anthropologist ; on April 5, at Gross Lichterfelde, 
near Berlin, Prof. LEopotp Krue, noted for his studies on the West Indian flora, 
aged 63 ; on May 11th, aged 75, W. C. Lucy, F.G.S., sometime president of the Cots- 
wold Naturalists’ Field Club, to the proceedings of which he contributed several papers 
on geological subjects ; on April 10, in London, aged 82, General E. H. Man, noted for 
his anthropological studies in the Andaman Islands ; W. M. MAsKeEtt, Registrar of the 
University of New Zealand, and well known for his researches on the Coccidae ; on April 
29, at Celle, Hanover, aged 83, Dr K. NOLDEKE, palaeontologist ; on April 7, at Arca- 
chon, aged 37, Martian JEAN Maurice Novatuier, a student of the Hemiptera, 
specially interested in the fauna of the Canary Islands ; MARIANO DE LA Paz GRAELLS, 
professor of Comparative Anatomy at Madrid University, on February 13, at Madrid, 
aged 80; at Yalta, Crimea, LEonID PAVLOVITSCH SSABANEJEV, zoologist and editor of 
the Russian Nature and Sport ; on March 27, at St Petersburg, Dr Gustav SIEVERS, an 
entomologist and explorer of Upper Armenia and the Trans-Caspian provinces ; on 
April 2, aged 64, the well-known histologist, SALOMON STRIcKER, professor of Pathology 
at Vienna University ; on May 5, the student of Diatoms, EucmEN WEISSFLOG, aged 75, 
at Dresden; on February 20, at Munich, aged 75, ConRAD WILL, the former director 
of the zoological collections there, 
