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aged 40.— Dr. Gruby, a student of poisonous fungi, in Paris. — 
K. G. Henke, conservator of the zodlogical and ethnographical 
museum at Dresden, February 18, aged 68. — Friedrich Jeppe, geol- 
ogist, in the Transvaal, August, 1898. — Dr. Heinrich Kiepert, pro- 
fessor of geography in the University of Berlin, April’21, aged 79. — 
Major Kriiger-Velthusen, ornithologist, in Berlin, November 26. — 
Dr. Oliver Marcy, professor of natural history in Northwestern Uni- 
versity, at Evanston, Ill., March 19, aged 79.— Alfred Paul Maupin, 
student of Coleoptera, in Paris, January 22. — M. Naudin, French 
botanist, aged 83. — William Burges Preyer, the well-known student 
of Lepidoptera, for twenty years settled in Borneo, at Port Said, Jan. 7, 
1899, aged 55.— Joseph Stevens, geologist, April 7, aged 81.— Dr. 
Philipp J. J. Valente, a student of Central American archeology, in 
New York, March 16, aged 71.— Adolf Walter, ornithologist, at 
Kassel, Germany, February 5.— Aulis Westerlund, student of Hyme- 
noptera, in Finland, December 7.—Paul Wladimirowitsch Jeremejew, 
formerly professor of mineralogy in the mining school at St. Peters- 
burg, January 18, aged 68. 
