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cal researches, after a successful course at Ox- 

 ford, has gained further experience at Leipzig 

 under Ostwald, and more recently at Owens 

 College. Mr. Keeling obtained a double jfirst 

 in natural science and mechanical science re- 

 spectively at Cambridge ; while Mr. Smith was 

 the most distinguished student of his year at 

 South Kensington, and for two years has been 

 one of Professor Riicker's assistants. 



Dr. Charles T. Mohr, the well-known bot- 

 anist, died at Asheville, N. C, on July 17. He 

 had been a resident of Mobile, Ala., for a num- 

 ber of years, but about a year ago moved to 



Asheville, N. C. 



The western press announces the death of 

 Dr. Joshua Miller, of Arizona. Dr. Miller was 

 an enthusiastic student of the archeology of 

 the Territory, and was instrumental in creating 

 the Arizona Antiquarian Association, of which 

 he was made president ; he was also instru- 

 mental in securing the enactment of d law for 

 the protection of the antiquities of the territory 

 from ruthless destruction. 



George K. Lawton, of the U. S. Naval 

 Observatory, died at Washington on July 25. 



The death is announced of Felix Joseph 

 Henri Lacaze-Duthiers, the eminent French 

 naturalist. Born in 1821, he began the study 

 of medicine, but soon turned to zoology, and 

 was appointed professor at Lille at the age of 

 thirty-three years. In 1865 he became pro- 

 fessor of zoology at the Paris Museum of Nat- 

 ural History, and three years later he was ap- 

 pointed to a similar position in the faculty of 

 sciences. He was elected a member of the 

 Academy of Sciences in 1871. In 1875 he es- 

 tablished a zoological laboratory on the coast 

 of Brittany. 



M. Joseph Hirsch, professor at the Paris 

 Conservatoire des arts et metiers and inspector 

 of bridges and highways, has died at the age of 

 sixty-five years. 



Dr. W. Schur, professor of astronomy and 

 director of the observatory at the University of 

 Gottingen, died on July 1, aged fifty-five 

 years. 



We also regret to record the death of Dr. 

 Antonio Piccone, professor of botany at Genoa, 



and Dr. Otto Wiedeburg, professor of physics 

 in the Institute of Technology at Hanover. 



On August 31, there will be a civil service ex- 

 amination for the position of instrument-maker. 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey, at a salary of 

 $1,000. On September 3, there will be an ex- 

 amination for the position of computer in the 

 Survey at the same salary. 



Mr. Andrew Carnegie has presented the 

 city of Winnipeg with $100,000 for a free pub- 

 lic library. The gift has been accepted by the 

 City Council. Mr. Carnegie has also offered 

 $50,000 to build a library at St. Johns, New- 

 foundland. 



We learn from the Astronomical Journal that 

 the government of the E,e[uiblic of Ecuador has 

 j)laced the Ob^ervatoiy of Quito at the disposal 

 of the French Commission charged with the 

 remeasurement of the Peruvian arc. M. Gou- 

 nessiat, astronomer of the Observatory of 

 Lyons, has been entrusted with the direction of 

 the establishment. The new director has taken 

 possession of his post, and is actively engaged 

 in organizing astronomical, meteorological and 

 magnetic services. 



The Guttenberg Museum at Mayeuce was 

 opened on June 23. 



Two further tracts of land, together some- 

 what less than an acre in extent, have been 

 purchased for the U. S. Naval Observatory at 

 a cost of $6,000. 



Nature states that the biological station which 

 had been kept on Lake Baikal for a year by the 

 East Siberian Geographical Society, at Goloust- 

 naya, on the west coast, has been closed, A 

 rich collection of fishes, especially of Coitus 

 species, and a great variety of Gammarus 

 species have, however, been secured, and the 

 latter are in the hands of Professor Sars, of 

 Christiania. 



Professor Todd's eclipse expedition to Sing- 

 kep, an island of the Netherlands Indies, 

 secured 28 photographs of the corona on May 

 18, partly through clouds. Mr. Percys Wilson, 

 of the New York Botanical Garden, who went 

 out as collector of the expedition, has obtained 

 many valuable exhibits and living jjlants, 

 among them numerous orchids. Mr. Wilson is 



