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2. Estudios de Meteor ologia Gomparada, por Mariano Bar$ena 

 y Miguel Perez. Vol. I, 438 pp. 8vo. Mexico, 1885.— This 

 government publication on Mexican meteorology contains the re- 

 sults of the observations made by the Central and other Meteoro- 

 logico-magnetic Observatories of Mexico. It is the first of a series 

 of volumes, and covers the months of January to April, 1881. 



3. Monument to Hot ace- Benedict de Saussure. — H. B. de 

 Saussure, the eminent meteorologist, geologist, and explorer of the 

 Alps, died in the closing year of last century. A circular letter 

 signed by Professor A. Favre of Geneva states that it is proposed 

 to erect a monument to his memory to " be placed at the foot of 

 Mont Blanc, whose lofty summit the illustrious savant reached," 

 not far from the Col du Geant, — where amidst snow and ice he was 

 encamped for sixteen days. The inauguration is planned for the 3d 

 of August of 1887, the centenary of his ascent of Mont Blanc. 

 The character of the monument will depend on the amount that 

 may be received from the admirers of the intrepid explorer. 



4. Biographies of American Naturalists, III. Publications 

 relating to Fossil Invertebrates, by J. Belknap Marcou, Bull. 

 IT. S. Nat. Mus., No. 30. 334 pp., 8vo. Washington, 1885.— 

 This number of the very valuable series prepared by Mr. Marcou 

 contains lists of the publications on fossil invertebrates, and of 

 all species described in the publications, by the following authors : 

 F. B. Meek, C. A. White, C. D. Walcott, J. W. Bailey, J. D. 

 Dana, C. G. Ehrenberg, James Hall, A. Heilprin, A. Hyatt, 

 J. Marcou, J. S. Newberry, D. D. Owen, J. Schiel, B. F. Shu- 

 mard, R. P. Whitfield, T. N. Nicollet and H. A. Prout. 



5. La Terre des Merveilles; Promenade au Pare National de 

 EAmerique du Nbrd ; par Jules Leclercq. 384 pp. 16mo, 

 with several plates of the geysers. Paris, 1886 (Hachette & 

 Co.). — A popular work in French on the Yellowstone Park, the 

 facts and figures derived from the reports of Hayden's Expedition. 



OBITUARY. 



1. Dr. Hermann Abich, the distinguished Austrian geologist 

 and mineralogist, died at Vienna on the first of July. He was 

 born in Berlin on the 11th of December, 1806. He commenced 

 his publications in 1831, with a paper on the composition of the 

 species of the spinel family. His explorations of Etna and 

 Vesuvius were followed by various papers and by the publication 

 in both French and German of a folio atlas entitled " Vues illus- 

 tratives de quelques phenomenes geologiques, prises sur le Vesuve 

 et sur L'Etna," published in 1837 and his "Geologische Beobach- 

 tungen liber die vulkanischen Erscheinungen" of 1841. He was 

 long professor of Mineralogy at Dorpat and made explorations in 

 the Caucasus and Northern Persia, and a large work entitled 

 " Geologische Forschungen in den Kankasischen Landern " was 

 in course of publication at the time of his death, only the first 

 part having appeared. He was an able worker in science of 

 great energy, and continued so to the closing year of his life. 



