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4, British Association.—The meeting for the current year at 
Edinburgh commenced on the 2nd of August. Sir William Thom- 
son, the President, oe ered his inaugural address in the Music 
Hall. The Em mperor te) 
associate? s tickets, and £910 from ladies’ tickets. The whole 
income of the year was a little 0 over £5,239, or more than twenty- 
six thousand dollars 
5. American Association.—The meeti ing was Spetel’ at pen 
apolis on the 16th of August. The address of Prof. T. Ste 
Hunt, the retiring president, was delivered to a large audience i in 
n 
oe this n er. 
6. American sbi brags —The press of the American Natural- 
ist, at Salem, Mass., will issue, according to a recent announce- 
ment, a number citarndiig abstracts of papers read at the meet- 
ing of the American Association = ‘Tadinapols and the address 
of Dr. Hunt, the retiring Preside 
OBITUARY. 
Epwarp CLaparzpe.—One of the most industrious and 
learned of the younger zoologists of Europe, Edward Claparéde, 
has lately (J une, 1871) died at Sienna, at the age of 39. fis me- 
= ipal 
_ Annelids In all his papers, his thorough physiological and 
anatomical training is pe eee ar his detai ; os a di 
cussed in all their general bearing. Living in Gen 
Pupil of Johannes Miiller, he ‘wrote with cea faoility. ‘Gieck 
dGerman: an admirable draughtsman, his many papers, which 
in the principal German and Fre nch scientific peri- 
Seen in his larger memoir on the Annelids of the Gulf of Naples, 
and his o aie on the Anatomy and more Seb 2 of the 
bsery t 
rencrtebrates made on the coast of Normandy. His style was 
puarkably clear and his information very extensive, 2s is — 
from his scientific reviews in the Archives de Genéve. tas 
independent in his scientific opinions, he never allowed him 
be carried away by weight Be pe and no as 7 
‘an protected by eminent names was owed to pass curren 
