558 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. 
son, professor of botany at the Akademie at Lund, Sweden. — Dr. 
Adalar Richter, professor extraordinarius of botany in the University 
of Klausenburg. — Mr. W. E. D. Scott, curator of the ornithological 
collections of the Green School of Science in Princeton University. 
—Dr. Streckeison, privat docent for geography in the University 
of Basel.—Dr. Tobler, privat docent for mineralogy in the Uni- 
versity of Basel. — Dr. W. F. R. Weldon, of London, Lenacre pro- 
fessor of comparative anatomy in the University of Oxford, as successor 
to Professor E. Ray Lankester. — Dr. R. von Wettstein, professor of 
botany and director of the botanical gardens of the University of 
Vienna. — Jay Backus Woodworth, instructor in geology in Harvard 
University. 
Deaths: Dr. Dareste de la Chavanne, the French anthropologist 
and teratologist.— Rev. William Colenso, a collector and student of 
New Zealand anthropology, February 10, aged 88. — John Collett, for 
several years state geologist of Indiana, at Indianapolis, March 15, 
aged 71.—-Mr. Thomas Cook, teacher of anatomy, in London, Feb- 
ruary 8.— Alexandre Laboulbene, entomologist and pathologist, author 
of a Faune Entomologique de France,aged 73.— Dr. Franz Lang, teacher 
of natural history in the cantonal school of Solothurn, Switzerland, 
aged 78.— Dr. William Rutherford, professor of physiology in the 
University-of Edinburgh, February 21, aged 60. — Dr. Carl Schonlein, 
assistant in the Zodlogical Station at Naples, aged 40.— Sir John 
Struthers, emeritus professor of anatomy in the University of Aber- 
deen, February 24, aged 75.—Gianpaolo Vlacovich, professor of 
anatomy at Padua, Italy. 
Othniel Charles Marsh, professor of paleontology in Yale Uni- 
versity, died March 18, 1898. He was born at Lockport, N. Y., 
Oct. 29, 1831, and was graduated from Yale College in the class 
of 1860. For two years after graduation he pursued studies in 
mineralogy in Yale, and then went abroad for three years of study 
in German universities. In 1866 he returned to Yale as professor 
of paleontology, a position he held until his death. Professor Marsh 
was never married and was without near relatives. His entire fortune 
was left by will to Yale University, aside from a bequest to the 
National Academy of Science of $10,000. 
