366 Scientific Intelligence. 



Obituary. 



Sir John Murray, the eminent Scotch naturalist and oceanog- 

 rapher, died suddenly as the result of an automobile accident on 

 February 16 at the age of seventy-three years. Born at Coburg, 

 Ontario, he removed to Scotland when still a youth and completed 

 his education at the University of Edinburgh. When only thirty- 

 one he was appointed naturalist to the "Challenger" expedition and 

 took part in the cruises from 1872 to 1876, later serving as editor 

 of the Challenger Reports (1880-1885). Other important inves- 

 tigations in oceanography occupied him in later years, the last of 

 these, the Michael Sars expedition, in 1910 when nearly seventy 

 years old. He was the author of many important memoirs and 

 volumes: one of these entitled "The Ocean" (1913) is noticed on 

 an earlier page of this number (p. 355). 



Dr. Edward Singleton Holden, the astronomer and librarian 

 of the United States Military Academy, died on February 16 at 

 his home in West Point, N. Y., in his sixty-eighth year. In 1872 

 he was appointed asti'onomer in the U. S. Naval Observatory ; 

 from 1881-1886 he was professor of astronomy at the University 

 of Wisconsin and director of the Washburn Observatory ; from 

 1885-1888 president of the University of California and director 

 of the Lick Observatory till 1898, when he became librarian at 

 West Point. His contributions to astronomy were numerous and 

 important. 



William Whitman Bailey, professor emeritus of botany at 

 Brown University, died on February 20 at the age of seventy-one 

 years. He served as botanist to the U. S. Geological Survey of 

 the Fortieth Parallel in 1867 and 1868 and was made professor at 

 Brown in 1881, retiring from active service in 1906. He made 

 numerous contributions to scientific journals and wrote a num- 

 ber of books: " Botanical Collector's Handbook " (1881), "Among 

 Rhode Island Wild Flowers" (1885), "New England Wild 

 Flowers" (1897) and others. 



Dr. Giuseppi Mercalli, director of the Observatory on Mt. 

 Vesuvius and professor of vulcanology and seismology at the 

 University of Naples, died suddenly, as the result of an accident, 

 on March 1 9 at the age of sixty-four years. 



Dr. Albert Gunther, the eminent German zoologist, died on 

 February 1 in his eighty-fourth year. 



Dr. H. B. Woodward, formerly assistant director of the British 

 Geological Survey, died on February 6 at the age of sixty-five 

 years. 



Col. Alexander Ross Clarke, the English geodetist, died on 

 February 1 1 at the age of eighty-five years. 



