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1892. — May 14 lh , Doctor Carl-August Dohrn, died at 

 Stettin, aged 86. He succumbed from the results of an attack 

 of influenza, — Carl-August Dohrn. the Veteran Entomologist 

 of world reknown, was born on the 27 th of June 1^00. 

 During his life, he corresponded with all the principal Ento- 

 mologists of the World, and formed a very fine and valuable 

 Collection of Coleoptera. He was President of the Entomo- 

 logical Society of Stettin from 1843 to 1887, in which year 

 he retired, and was succeeded by his eldest son, D r Heinrich 

 Dohrn. His younger son is the well known D r Anton Dohrn, 

 the founder of the Zoological Aquarium at Naples. 



He edited the Entomol zeitung, the organ of the Stettin 

 Society, during many years, and many of his memoirs, and 

 descriptions of new species of Coleoptera, were published 

 in that Journal. 



1892.— August 23 d , Marshal daFonseca, First President 

 of the Republic of Brazil, died at Rio-Janeiro. He was appoin- 

 ted President on the 25 th of February 1891 ; but resigned the 

 post in 1892. He was the principal instigator of the Revolu- 

 tion, 15 th November 1889, which caused the fall of Dom Pedro. 



18C2. — October 2 d , Ernest Renan, Professor at the Col- 

 lège de France, died in Paris, aged 68. He succumbed from 

 bronchitis, after a very short illness and without much 

 suffering. — Ernest Renan was born in 1823, at Treguier, 

 Brittany. He first studied in his native town, next in Paris in 

 the Seminary of Saint-Nicolas du Chardonneret, then direc- 

 ted by the abbot Dnpanloup, raised afterwards to the di- 

 gnity of Bishop of Orléans. 



Three years after, he went to Issy, a succursal of Saint- 

 Sulpice. When there, he felt for the first time that he had 

 lost faith in his first vocation to be a priest. So he resolved 

 to leave the seminary, which he did shortly after. 



Being poor, he made his living by giving lessons ; but at 

 the same time he continued his studies on Philology, and 

 conquered all his universitary degrees, including that of 

 Philosophy. In 1856, his reputation as a Philologer was esta- 

 blished, and the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles- Lettres 

 gave him the succession of Augustin Thierry. 



In 1862, he was nominated Professor of Hebrew, at the 

 Collège de France. In 1878. he was elected Member of the 

 French Academy, an 1 successively was created from Chevalier 

 to Grand-Croix de la Légion d'honneur. Renan did notbelieve 

 in the divinity of Jésus, and when he published his work : la 

 Vie de Jésus, Renan's name was made known all over theWorld. 



Some exalted him immensely, others did the reverse. 

 Renan at that time was the man more spoken of. Renan 

 published many other works, among which the most cele- 

 brated are: the ArOTRES, Saint-Pa vjl, Dialogues philosophiques, 



