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THE - CONCHOLOGISTS’ - EXCHANGE 
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NECROLOGY 
Prof. E. L. Youmans, January 11 1887. 
Rudolph von Uechritz, botanist, died No- 
vember 21, 1886. 
Dr.S. A. T. Tuelberg. Scandinavian botanist, 
died December 15, 1886. 
Don Francisco Loscos y Bernal, Spanish 
scientist, died Nov. 1886, aged 63. 
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guished Californian botanist, at Alameda, 
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