instructor in physiology in Harvard Medical School. — Dr. Alfred 
G. Mayer, curator of natural science in the museum of the Brooklyn 
Institute of Arts and Science. — Dr. M. Meissner, custos of the zoó- 
logical section of the museum of natural history in Berlin. — Mr. 
E. W. Morse, instructor in natural history in Harvard College. — 
Professor H. F. Osborn, vertebrate paleontologist to the geological 
survey of Canada. — Edmund Perrier, director of the Natural History 
Museum at Paris. — Professor Ferdinand von Richthofen, director 
of the Museum of Oceanography at Berlin. — Dr. M. Siedlecki, pri- 
vat docent for zoólogy in Cracow. — Miss F. C. Smith, assistant in 
botany in Smith College. — Dr. Julia W. Snow, instructor in botany 
in Rockford College, Illinois. — Dr. Hermann Triepel, prosector in 
the anatomical institute of the University at Greifswald. — Dr. Lewis 
G. Westgate, professor of geology in the Ohio Wesleyan University. 
— Dr. S. R. Williams, professor of zoólogy in Miami University, 
Oxford, Ohio.— Alexander N. Winchell, professor of zoólogy and 
mineralogy in the Montana School of Mines, Butte, Montana. — Dr. 
E. Zimmermann, royal Prussian geologist. 
Deaths: E. Allard, coleopterologist at Paris, in April. — Dr. 
Henry Beauregard, professor of cryptogamic botany in the Paris 
School of Pharmacy, in April. — Dr. Gustav Born, professor of anat- 
omy and director of the embryological section in the University of 
Breslau, July s, of heart disease, aged 49. — J. Lucius Caflisch, pres- 
ident of the Swiss Entomological Society, at Chur, March 9. — Dr. 
Corrado Tomassi Crudeli, professor of pathological histology at 
Rome. — Dr. Paul Hagenmüller, conchologist, at Marseilles, June 8. 
— Professor E. Kernstock, lichenologist, in Klagenfurt, April 14, 
aged 48. — Dr. Karl von Kraatz-Koschlau, mineralogist and privat 
docent in the University of Halle, at Para, Brazil, in May, of yellow 
fever. — Professor W. Kühne, director of the physiological institute 
of the University of Heidelberg, June 11, aged 62. — Edgar Leopold 
a ornithologist, at Budleigh Salterton, Devon, England, aged 
5. He was well known for his Birds of South Africa. — Carl 
Tita: Lindeberg, botanist, in Alingsas, Sweden, May 4, aged 85. — 
G. Sherrif Tye, conchologist, at Birmingham, England, February 4. 
— Walter Percy Sladen, well known for his studies of echinoderms, at 
Florence, Italy, June 11.— Percy S. Selous, naturalist, at Green- 
ville, Mich. , April 7, from the bite of a moccasin. 
