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handed down to future time. In its striking arrangement of 

 subjects, in its masterly grouping of details which, notwithstand- 

 ing their almost bewildering multiplicity, are all linked with 

 each other in leading to broad and impressive conclusions, and in 

 the measured cadence of its finer passages, the Antlltz may be 

 regarded as a noble philosophical poem in which the story of the 

 continents and the oceans is told by a seer gifted with rare powers 

 of insight into the past." Charles Schuchert. 



Dr. Alfrrd E. Barlow of Montreal died on May 28, having 

 perished with his wife in the wreck of the " Empress of Ireland." 

 His death is a great loss to Canadian geology and mineralogy, 

 to which he had made important contributions. 



Dr. Alexander Francis Chamberlain, professor of anthro- 

 pology in Clark University, died on April 8 at the age of forty- 

 nine years. 



Professor Jesse J. Myers, of the Michigan Agricultural Col- 

 lege, died on May 28 at the age of thirty-eight years. 



Dr. P. H. Pye-Smith, F.R.S., late Vice-chancellor of the Uni- 

 versity of London and a consulting physician of Guy's Hospital, 

 died on May 23 in his seventy -fifth year. 



Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, the emiment English electrician 

 and investigator, died on May 27 in his eighty-sixth year. 



M. Philippe E. L. Van Tieghem, the eminent French botan- 

 ist, died on April 28 at the age of seventy-five years. 



Dr. Karl Chun, professor of biology at the University of 

 Leipzig, has died at the age of sixty-two years. 



