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  Scientific 
  Intelligence. 
  

  

  OBITUARY. 
  

  

  Professor 
  Robert 
  Wilhelm 
  Bunsen, 
  the 
  veteran 
  German 
  

   chemist, 
  died 
  in 
  Heidelberg 
  on 
  the 
  16th 
  of 
  August 
  last 
  at 
  

   the 
  age 
  of 
  eighty-eight. 
  Of 
  what 
  he 
  accomplished 
  for 
  science 
  

   during 
  his 
  long 
  period 
  of 
  active 
  service, 
  only 
  brought 
  to 
  a 
  close 
  

   by 
  the 
  infirmities 
  of 
  great 
  age, 
  chemists 
  and 
  physicists 
  hardly 
  

   need 
  to 
  be 
  informed 
  — 
  with 
  the 
  founding 
  of 
  the 
  department 
  of 
  

   spectrum 
  analysis 
  and 
  the 
  development 
  of 
  the 
  methods 
  of 
  gas 
  

   analysis, 
  his 
  name 
  will 
  be 
  ever 
  as 
  surely 
  connected 
  as 
  it 
  is 
  in 
  popular 
  

   use 
  with 
  the 
  " 
  Bunsen 
  burner." 
  But 
  to 
  those 
  who 
  enjoyed 
  the 
  

   privilege 
  of 
  working 
  under 
  him, 
  of 
  learning 
  to 
  know 
  personally 
  

   as 
  well 
  as 
  to 
  come 
  into 
  somewhat 
  close 
  contact 
  with 
  his 
  keen 
  

   mind, 
  his 
  death 
  comes 
  as 
  a 
  direct 
  personal 
  loss. 
  This 
  is 
  so 
  well 
  

   expressed 
  by 
  a 
  gifted 
  chemist* 
  in 
  a 
  recent 
  number 
  of 
  Nature 
  that 
  

   no 
  apology 
  is 
  needed 
  for 
  quoting 
  his 
  words 
  here: 
  ..." 
  But 
  this 
  

   experimental 
  work, 
  great 
  and 
  important 
  as 
  it 
  is, 
  is 
  not 
  the 
  

   greatest 
  or 
  most 
  important 
  work 
  that 
  he 
  accomplished. 
  It 
  is 
  

   as 
  a 
  teacher 
  and 
  as 
  an 
  example 
  that 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  Bunsen 
  is 
  and 
  

   will 
  be 
  chiefly 
  honored 
  and 
  remembered. 
  It 
  is 
  only 
  those 
  who 
  

   have 
  had 
  the 
  benefit 
  of 
  working 
  under 
  and 
  with 
  him 
  who 
  can 
  

   fully 
  understand 
  the 
  feelings 
  of 
  affection 
  and 
  respect 
  with 
  which 
  

   they 
  regard 
  his 
  memory. 
  To 
  those 
  who 
  had 
  the 
  privilege 
  of 
  his 
  

   intimacy, 
  of 
  whom 
  I 
  cau 
  happily 
  claim 
  to 
  be 
  one, 
  his 
  friendship 
  

   will 
  remain 
  as 
  an 
  abiding 
  source 
  of 
  gratification. 
  As 
  an 
  investi- 
  

   gator 
  he 
  was 
  great, 
  as 
  a 
  teacher 
  he 
  was 
  greater, 
  as 
  a 
  man 
  and 
  a 
  

   friend 
  he 
  was 
  greatest." 
  

  

  Sir 
  Edward 
  Frankland, 
  the 
  distinguished 
  English 
  chemist, 
  

   died 
  on 
  the 
  9th 
  of 
  August 
  in 
  his 
  seventy-fifth 
  year. 
  A 
  recent 
  

   writer 
  says 
  of 
  him, 
  his 
  " 
  title 
  to 
  fame 
  rests 
  securely 
  upon 
  his 
  

   important 
  experimental 
  investigations 
  in 
  pure 
  chemistry, 
  accom- 
  

   plished 
  chiefly 
  within 
  the 
  twenty 
  years 
  from 
  1848 
  to 
  1868, 
  and 
  

   upon 
  the 
  impetus 
  which 
  was 
  given 
  to 
  theoretical 
  chemistry 
  by 
  

   the 
  promulgation 
  of 
  his 
  views 
  concerning 
  the 
  combining 
  capacity, 
  

   or 
  valency 
  as 
  it 
  is 
  now 
  called, 
  of 
  the 
  elements, 
  which 
  he 
  derived 
  

   from 
  the 
  results 
  of 
  his 
  experimental 
  work." 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Daniel 
  Garrison 
  Brinton 
  of 
  Philadelphia, 
  the 
  dis- 
  

   tinguished 
  and 
  learned 
  anthropologist, 
  died 
  on 
  July 
  31st 
  in 
  his 
  

   sixty-third 
  year. 
  He 
  held 
  for 
  many 
  years 
  the 
  Professorship 
  of. 
  

   American 
  Archaeology 
  and 
  Linguistics 
  in 
  the 
  University 
  of" 
  Penn- 
  

   sylvania. 
  His 
  contributions 
  to 
  science, 
  particularly 
  in 
  the 
  line 
  of 
  

   the 
  languages 
  of 
  the 
  original 
  tribes 
  of 
  North 
  America, 
  were 
  

   numerous 
  and 
  of 
  great 
  value. 
  

  

  * 
  Sir 
  Henry 
  E. 
  Roscoe 
  in 
  Nature 
  for 
  August 
  31. 
  The 
  same 
  writer 
  gave 
  an 
  

   admirable 
  account 
  of 
  Bunsen's 
  life 
  and 
  work 
  some 
  eighieeu 
  years 
  since 
  in 
  vol. 
  

   xxiii 
  of 
  Nature's 
  Series 
  of 
  Science 
  Worthies. 
  

  

  