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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. 



Ense " (14 vols., 1871-74) ; " Brief wechsel und 

 Tagebiicher der Fiirsten von Ptickler-Mus- 

 kau " (4 vols., 1873 -'74) ; " Furst Hermann von 

 Piickler-Muskau " (1873-74). Of Varnhagen's 

 posthumous works she also published: "Fr. 

 von Gentz. Tagebticher" (4 vols., 1873-'74) ; 

 " Briefe swischen Varnhagen und Babel "(6 

 vols., 1874-75). A marriage which she con- 

 tracted in December, 1874, with Cino Grimelli, 

 a colonel in the Italian army, proved unhappy 

 and ended in divorce. 



Auzoux, THEODORE LOTUS JER6ME, a French 

 anatomist, was born at Saint- Aubin d'Ecroville, 

 in the department of Eure, April 7, 1797; died 

 at Paris, on March 6, 1880. He graduated in 

 Paris as a physician in 1822, and soon became 

 known in the medical world by his system of 

 anatomie elastique, a method of taking casts of 

 the dead subjects in a paste which when dry 

 becomes as hard as wood and impervious to 

 moisture, exhibiting with perfect distinctness 

 every vein and fiber. He established at Saint- 

 Aubin a manufactory of such molds and pro- 

 duced types of each of the great families of 

 natural history, from the elephant down to 

 the mollusk, each divided into several hundred 

 pieces. His establishment was celebrated for 

 the judicious management of the workmen em- 

 ployed, and the artistic education it afforded to 

 large numbers of the people of the district. 

 He was the author of "Lemons elementaires 

 d'anatomie et de physiologic " (1839, third edi- 

 tion, 1858), and of various other professional 

 essays. 



BARKY, EDWARD MIDDLETON, an English ar- 

 chitect, born in 1830; died January 29, 1880. 

 He was the third son of the late Sir Charles 

 Barry, whom he succeeded in 1860 as architect 

 of the Houses of Parliament, which were com- 

 pleted by him. He was also the architect of 

 Covent Garden Theatre and numerous other 

 buildings. In 1867 his design for the new Na- 

 tional Gallery was deemed the best by the 

 judges. He was a Fellow and at one time 

 Yice-President of the Royal Institute of Brit- 

 ish Architects, and an honorary member of 

 several foreign societies. In 1873 he w r as 

 elected Professor of Architecture in the Royal 

 Academy, and Treasurer in 1874. 



BELL, THOMAS, an English naturalist, born 

 at Poole, Dorsetshire, England, October 11, 

 1792; died March , 1880. He was Professor 

 of Zoology at King's College, London, for more 

 than forty years from 1832, President of the 

 Ray Society from its foundation until 1859, 

 and President of the Linnaean Society from 

 1853 to 1861. He was a member of many 

 European and American scientific societies, the 

 author of numerous works and monographs 

 on natural history, and a contributor to the 

 transactions of some societies. For many 

 years before his death he resided in Gilbert 

 White's former dwelling at Selborne. 



BRODIE, SIR BENJAMIN COLLINS, baronet, the 

 eldest surviving son of the late eminent sur- 

 geon of the same name, born February 5, 1817 ; 



died November 26, 1880. He succeeded to the 

 baronetcy at the death of his father in 1862, 

 being the second baronet. He was appointed 

 Professor of Chemistry in the University of 

 Oxford, and was for several years President of 

 the Chemical Society. 



BUCKLAND, FRANCIS TEEVELYAN, an English 

 naturalist, son of the geologist William Buck- 

 land, D.D., Dean of Westminster, born Decem- 

 ber 17, 1826; died in London, December 19, 

 1880. Having graduated in 1848 from Christ- 

 church, Oxford, he was from 1854 to 1863 as- 

 sistant surgeon in the army. He retired in or- 

 der to devote himself wholly to natural his- 

 tory. In 1867 he was appointed Inspector of 

 Salmon-Fisheries for England and Wales, and in 

 1870 special commissioner to inquire into the 

 effects of recent legislation on the salmon- 

 fisheries of Scotland. He had previously es- 

 tablished at his own expense the "Museum of 

 Economic Fish-Culture " in the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Garden, in which are illustrated the 

 modes of propagating fresh and salt water fish 

 and oysters. In 1877 he was one of a commis- 

 sion to inquire into the crab and lobster fisher- 

 ies of England and Scotland, w y hich resulted in 

 an act of Parliament for the protection of those 

 mollusks. He also served in 1877 on a com- 

 mission of inquiry into the herring-fisheries, 

 and in 1878 he was engaged upon a committee 

 relative to the sea-fisheries around England 

 and Wales. No one has done more than Mr. 

 Buckland for popularizing the subject of fish- 

 ery cultivation throughout the civilized world, 

 and his advice was sought not only by his own 

 Government, but by those of Russia, Germany, 

 France, the United States, and many other coun- 

 tries. In 1866, with the late Mr. Pfennell, he 

 projected and started "Land and Water," and 

 he contributed to this periodical up to the 

 very day before his death. His four series of 

 "Curiosities of Natural History" were firs 

 published in 1857, and several additions have 

 since appeared. A " Familiar History of Brit 

 ish Fishes " appeared in 1873, the " Logbool 

 of a Fisherman and Zoologist " in 1876, and 

 magnificent edition of Gilbert White's classical 

 " Natural History of Selborne " (first published 

 in 1789), largely annotated, was published in 

 1879. Mr. Buckland was a very decided op- 

 ponent of the views of Darwin, and frequently 

 expressed his dissent from them. 



BUSCHMANN, JOHANN KARL EDUARD, a G( 



man philologist, born in Magdeburg, February 

 14, 1805; died April 21, 1880. At the age of 

 twenty-two years he went to Mexico, where h< 

 studied the Aztec and other native language 

 On his return he was recommended by Boff 

 Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt, both 

 whom he assisted in the preparation of their 

 standard works. He was the author of Wil- 

 helm von Humboldt's larger work on the Kaoi 

 language of Java, containing a comparative 

 grammar of the South - Sea^ languages. Of 

 Alexander von llumboldt's "Kosmos" he pub- 

 lished in 1862 the fifth volume, with a general 



