684 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. 
professor. — Dr. Kiister, of Munich, docent for botany in the Uni- 
versity of Halle. — Dr. J. Marquart, of Tübingen, assistant in the 
Leiden Ethnographical Museum. — Dr. O. Mattivolo, of Florence, 
professor of botany in the University of Turin. — Dr. Max Meyer, of 
Worcester, professor of psychology in the University of Missouri. — 
Dr. V. Schmidt, of Dorpat, privat docent for histology and embry- 
ology at the University of St. Petersburg. — Dr. Schmeisser, of Claus- 
thal, director of the Geological Institute of the School of Mines in 
Berlin. — James M. Tuomney, of Arizona, assistant professor of for- 
estry at Yale University. | 
Deaths : Adrien Franchet, botanist, in Paris, aged 66. — Dr. O. 
Hoffmann, lepidopterologist, at Regensburg, February 22, aged 64. 
— Dr. H. Kiürskow, editor of the Botanisk Tidsskrift, Copenhagen, 
March 18, aged 64. — Miss Mary H. Kingsley, the well-known Afri- 
can explorer, at Simon’s Bay, South Aftica, in June. — Dr. E. J. Lowe, 
a British naturalist, at Chepstow, March 10, — Carl Meinshausen, of 
the botanical museum of the Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg. 
— A. Pellerin, director of the botanical gardens at Nantes, France. 
—Mr. James Thompson, of Glasgow, a geologist, aged 77. — Pro- 
fessor W. Waagen, professor of paleontology in the University of 
Vienna, and formerly of the Indian Geological Survey, in Vienna, 
March 24, aged 59. — Dr. Hugo Zukal, professor extraordinary of 
botany in the Agricultural School at Vienna, February 15, aged 55. 
