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but showed the most effectual way for a vessel to sail in a straight 
line over a curved surface and thereby solved what was before 
one of the most difficult problems of navigation. 
Osrruary.—Dr. J. G. Kohl died at Bremen, his git city, 
October 28, 1878. He was born April 28, 1808. He was very 
widely known as the author of a very large number of itey 
cal works and books of travel. These include accounts of travels 
in Russia, Poland, Austria, Hungary, Great ponet and Ireland, 
Denmark, Styria, the Alps, Netherlands, Dalmatia and Montene- 
o, etc. He came to America in 1854, and arena four years in 
travel, of which he told in books on Canada and the north-western 
States and Territories. He also wrote several works and papers 
on the early history, folklore and maps of America. One o 
his latest productions, remarkable for its learning and research, 
was a history of the discovery and voyages made to Magellan 
Straits! He made many friends when in this country, and was a 
member of several of our historical and scientific societies. 
Nicholas de Kanikoff, a Russian Orientalist, died near Paris on 
-November 15, 1878. Born October 24, 1819, he at the age of 
twenty accompanied Gen. Perovski’s unfortunate expedition to 
Khiva, and afterwards traveled much in Asia, especially in 
Bokhara, Persia (where. he was Russian Consul General) and 
Afghanistan. He published (1845) Bokhara, its Amir and its People, 
and (1861) a Memoir on the Southern Part of Central Asia, for 
which the French Geographical Society gave him its gold medal. 
These and several other works are the source of much of our 
information concerning Central Asia. — 
MICROSOOPY.? 
New Microscopicat Societies——The Microscopical Society 
of Camden, N. J., was organized Spy 7, 1878, with eighteen 
members. Meetings are held o e first Thursday evening of 
every month, at the residences of cena The following are 
the officers for 1870: President, Albert P. Brown, Ph. G.; secre- 
tary and treasurer, Joseph L. De La Cour; managers, Harry S. 
Fortiner, C. Henry Kain, Samuel S. Cochran ; curator, Alfred 
W. Test. 
A Microscopical section of the Cincinnati Natural History So- 
ciety has been recently formed, with fifteen or twenty members. 
Meetings are held on the first Friday evening of each month, at 
the rooms of the Society, n good attendance and the promise 
of interesting and valuable w 
The Rochester Microkentical Society was organized January 
27, 1879, with a membership of nearly forty persons. From 
1 Geschichte der apart. rise a errei es Magellan’s-strasse un 
u den ihr benachbarten Landern und Meeren. Von J. G. Kohl. Zeits shrift der Ge- 
sellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin, | nig ʻ bead, pp. ES = a ; 
a epartment is edited by Dr. R. H. Ward, Tro 
