DECEMBER 8, 1899. ] 
Dr. Henry Hicks, F.R.S., died, near Lon- 
don, on November 18th aged sixty-two years. 
His father was a surgeon and he was himself a 
‘physician, being a specialist in mental diseases 
He was, however, best known as a geologist, 
having contributed many important papers on 
geology and paleontology. He was secretary 
of the Geological Society from 1890 to 1893, 
and president from 1896 to 1898. 
PROFESSOR JOHANN CARL WILHELM FERDI- 
NAND TIEMANN died of heart disease at Meran 
on November 138th, aged fifty-one years. He 
became a Ph.D. of Gottingen in 1870, and in 
1882 was appointed professor of chemistry in 
Berlin University, undertaking from the same 
date the editorship of the proceedings of the 
German Chemical Society. Professor Tiemann 
was the author of numerous important re- 
searches having for their object the discovery 
of the constitution of the camphors, the ter- 
penes, and other organic bodies. AS a result of 
his work in theoretical chemistry, the manu- 
facture of artificial flavoring matters and per- 
fumes resulted, which is now an important 
German industry. Professor Tiemann was a 
brother-in-law of the eminent chemist A. W. 
von Hofmann. 
THE death of Dr. Camara Pestana at Lisbon 
on November 15th, adds, says the London Times, 
another distinguished name to the list of mar- 
tyrs to science. He caught the plague while 
studying the disease at Oporto. Dr. Pestana 
was chief of the Bacteriological Institute at 
Lisbon, aman in the prime of life, an ardent 
and most accomplished bacteriologist. It 
was his verdict on specimens sent him from 
Oporto for examination that conclusively es- 
tablished the existence of the plague there in 
August last. He paid several visits to Oporto 
to study the outbreak, and was present there 
when the foreign representatives of science vis- 
ited the city. His courtesy and amiability 
greatly endeared him to all his colleagues, 
while his scientific attainments commanded 
their respect. His contributions to bacteriol- 
ogy, being written in Portuguese, are but little 
known, and the foreign bacteriologists visiting 
Oporto only then became acquainted with them 
for the first time. They were not less sur- 
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prised than delighted with the originality and 
brilliancy of Dr. Pestana’s work, and several 
of them expressed the opinion that if he had 
used a different language he would undoubtedly 
have enjoyed the European reputation which 
his researches deserved. He will be deeply 
and sincerely regretted. 
Str RAWSON WILLIAM RAWSON, died, in Lon- 
don, on November 20th in his 88th year. He 
was formerly vice-president of the board of 
trade and Governor of Barbados, but was inter- 
ested in scientific matters, having been a mem- 
ber of the council of the Geographical and Sta- 
tistical Societies, and president of the latter. 
He was the first president of the International 
Statistical Society established in 1885, and held 
this office for ten years. 
THe death is announced of Mr. William 
Pamplin at the advanced age of ninety-two 
years. He was elected an associate of the 
Linnean Society in 1830, and made various con- 
tributions on the geographical distribution of 
British plants. 
THE death is also announced of Professor 
Spirgalis, for thirty years director of the lab- 
oratory of pharmaceutical chemistry at Konigs- 
berg. 
A COLOSSAL bronze statue in honor of Fer- 
dinand de Lesseps was unveiled at Port Said on 
November 17th. Among the addresses was one 
by Vicomte Melchior de Vogiié, representing 
the French Academy, who testified to de Les- 
seps’s services to art and science and especially 
to his indomitable energy. 
Tur Parliament of Queensland has voted 
£1,000 towards the funds of the British Ant- 
arctic expedition. 
THE American Society of Mechanical Engi- 
neers is holding its meeting in New York dur- 
ing the present week. 
THE third International Congress of Photog- 
raphy is to be held in Paris from July 238 to 
July 28, 1900. The General Secretary is M. S. 
Pector, 9 Rue Lincoln, Paris. 
In accordance with the policy of the War 
Department for a systematic co ection of as 
many interesting relics from Cuba, Puerto Rico 
and the Philippines as possible for exhibition in 
