480 Obituary — Miss E. Came; Gustav Rose; Dr. Kaup. 



Miss Cakne. — We regret to record tlie death of Miss Elizabeth Carne, 

 a native of West Cornwall, on Sept. 1, at Penzance, aged 56. She 

 was the daughter of the late Joseph Carne, Esq., F.R.S., and inherited 

 her father's scientific tastes and literary acquirements as well as his 

 fortune. Eor years she was one of the most frequent writers in the 

 London Quarterly Beview, and has published several works which 

 have obtained much popularity, although her dislike of publicity led 

 her to write anonymously. Her works include "Country Towns," 

 " Three Months' Best at Pau," and " The Realm of Truth." Miss 

 Carne for many years largely devoted her time to the Mineralogical 

 Museum of the Eoyal Geological Society of Cornwall, at Penzance, 

 every specimen in which she classified and arranged, so that the 

 Museum was regarded as a model of method. She was thoroughly 

 versed in geology and mineralogy, and contributed many papers to 

 the Eoyal Cornwall Geological Society. Her benevolence was as great 

 as her attainments were rare, and, in addition to large benefactions in 

 more ordinary channels. Miss Carne lately offered to build a new 

 wing to the local mineralogical museum and furnish it with the 

 mineral collection, valued at £3,000, which her father had amassed. 

 This project having fallen through, Miss Carne resolved to build a 

 museum of her own at Penzance, and this is now approaching com- 

 pletion. — Pall Mall Gazette, September 9. 



GxjSTAv EosE. — This distinguished Mineralogist died at Berlin, July 

 15th, in the 76th year of his age. In him Germany and the world 

 have lost a wise and noble man, — conceded by all to be the first in 

 science among the learned men of Germany. At first devoting him- 

 self to engineering, he subsequently gave all his time to scientific 

 pursuits, and in 1823 took up his residence in Berlin. In 1826 he 

 became Professor of Mineralogy in that University, and, after the 

 death of Weiss, Director of the Eoyal Mineralogical Museum. He 

 travelled extensively in Scandinavia, England and Scotland, Italy 

 and Sicily, France and Austria. In 1829 he made with Humboldt 

 and Ehrenberg the famous tour to the Ural and Altai Mountains and 

 the Caspian Sea, and beyond to the borders of China, a journey 

 which first made known the mineralogical resources of the extensive 

 Russian Empire. His researches on his native soil were confined to 

 the Silesian Mountains. He devoted himself to the study of meteor- 

 ites, those wonderful bodies which reach the earth from stellar 

 space. With his keen penetration he discovered the structure of iron 

 meteorites, and the mineral components of the stony ones ; and 

 studied the striking differences between rock-making in a cosmic 

 atom, and in the solid crust of the earth. 



Prof. Du. Kaup. — We regret to record the death of Prof. Dr. Kaup, 

 of Darmstadt, a distinguished Zoologist and Palaeontologist, whose 

 name is well known in connexion with the discovery of Dinotherium. 

 We hope to give a suitable notice of him next month. 



