2i8 NATURAL SCIENCE. Sept., 1895. 



GUSTAV VON NORDENSKIOLD. 



IT is with great regret that we record the death of Gustav von 

 Nordenskiold, which occurred at Stockholm on June 26 last from 

 consumption, at the early age of twenty-seven. He was an explorer 

 and observer of considerable merit, as may be gathered from his 

 magnificent work on the cliff-dwellers of Mexico, his exploration of 

 Spitzbergen, and his investigation of the minute structure of snow 

 crystals, which was beautifully illustrated by photographs taken 

 by himself. Unfortunately, his early death deprives the Swedes of 

 an intrepid leader in their projected Antarctic expedition. 



The terribly sudden death of Mr. Francis E. Brown, the 

 energetic and accomplished clerk to the Geological Society of London, 

 has robbed that Society of a man whose tact and resourcefulness had 

 often proved valuable. Mr. Brown died on August 2, at Shepherd's 

 Bush, from the breaking of a blood-vessel. His good nature and 

 courtesy had endeared him to the fellows, many of whom feel that 

 they have lost a personal friend. 



Among other deaths which it is our misfortune to chronicle, 

 are those of Julien Deby, the eminent diatomist, whose collections 

 were recently acquired by the British Museum ; Professor P. A. S. 

 Verneuil, the surgeon, who died at Paris on July 12, aged 71 ; 

 Dr. George Marx, archaeologist and entomologist to the U.S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture, whose death occurred at Washington on 

 January 3 ; H. Witmeur, Professor of Geology and Mineralogy 

 in the Brussels University ; Sir John Tomes, the dental physiologist 

 and surgeon, who passed away at Caterham on July 29, aged 80. 

 Dr. Hermann Knoblauch, the distinguished head of the K. Leo- 

 poldinisch-Carolinische Academic of Halle, died on June 30, aged 

 76 ; Isaac Sprague, the botanist, at Wellesley Hills, Mass., on 

 March 15 last ; Professor Pellegrino Strobel, the geologist and 

 conchologist of Parma, on June 9 ; C. E. Adolf Gerstaecker, 

 Professor of Zoology in Greifswald University, on July 20 ; Dr. W. 

 Voss, the mycologist, recently at Vienna ; Dr. R. Peck, Director of 

 the Natural History Museum at Gorlitz ; Dr. Norton S. Towns- 

 hend. Professor of Agriculture in the Ohio University, at the age of 

 79; and Ernst Henri Baillon, the eminent botanist, an obituary 

 notice of whom we shall endeavour to print next month. 



