182 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. 
Recent deaths: Prof. Rudolf Adamy, director of the ethnological 
museum at Darmstadt, aged 48. — Dr. James Edward Tierney 
Aitchison, author of numerous papers on the flora of India, in Kew, 
England, September 30, aged 63. — Dr. C. J. Backman, the Swedish 
botanist, May 1, in Stockholm. — James Behrens, formerly an active 
student of the Lepidoptera, at San José, Cal., March 6, aged 74. — 
Pasquale Conti, botanist in Lugano. — Sir George Gray, well known 
for his investigations of the resources of Australia and New Zealand, 
Sept. 19, 1898, aged 86. — G. E. Grimes, assistant on the geological 
survey of India, April 11, aged 26.— James Hardy, of Cockburns- 
path, England, a student of the zoology of northern England, Octo- 
ber, aged 84. — Max Hauer, microscopist and mineralogist in Ober- 
hausen, Germany, August 10, aged 51.— Dr. W. Kochs, privat 
docent for physiology in the University of Bonn. — Dr. Luigi Lom- 
bardini, professor of the anatomy of domesticated animals in the 
University of Pisa, June 27, aged 67. — Dr. Karl Mettenheimer, 
formerly a student of the invertebrates, in Schwerin, Germany, Sep- 
tember 18, aged 74. — Johnson Pettit, entomologist, at. Grimsby, 
Canada, Feb. 18, 1898. — Dr. Alexandre Pélliet, curator of the 
anatomical collections of the Musée Dupuytren in Paris. — Edward 
Tatnall, a student of the flora of Delaware, at Wilmington, May 30, 
aged 79. — Dr. Giambattista Valenzia, zoologist, at Pantelleria, 
June 15. 
