Miscellaneous Intelligence. 165 
years in the Sandwich Islands, had published not a little upon 
their botany, and was engaged upon a Flora Hawaiensis, died, 
at Heidelberg, July 13. He is commemorated by the Begonia- 
ceous genus Hillebrandia of Oliver. 
Dr. Henry Frercurr Hance, English Consul at Whampoa, 
an acute and most indefatigable systematic botanist, unequalled 
for his knowledge of Chinese botany, died at Honekong, June 22, 
at the age of 59. Mr. Francis B. Forbes, equally a devotee to 
Chinese botany, contributes to the Journal of Botany, British and 
Foreign, for January, 1886, an appreciative memoir of his asso- 
ciate and friend. 
T. G. OrpuanipvEs, Emeritus Professor of Botany in the Uni- 
versity of Athens, and who in former years did much to make the 
botany of Greece better known by excellent Hxsiccate, died 
August 17, at the age of 69. 
Pror. J. W. ALBERT Wiaanp, of the University of Marbars, 
after a long illness, died at Marburg, October 22, in the 66th year 
of his age. 
The notable loss from our ranks in this country is that of our 
eminent Lichenologist, 
Epwarp TucKERMAN, who died on the 15th of March last, in 
the 69th year of his age. His biography is given in this Journal, 
vol. xxxil, and in the Proceedings of the American Academy of 
Arts and Sciences, vol. xxi, 1886. A. G. 
4. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 
College.—No. 6, voi. xii, on the Deep Sea Mollusca, (Brachiopoda 
and Pelecypoda,) by W. H. Dat, from dredgings of the steamer 
“Blake.” No. 1, vol. xiii, on the Holothurioidea, ibid., by H. 
THEEL. © 
5. Hlementary Course in Practical Zoology ; by Bur P. 
Cotton. 186 pp. 12mo. Boston, 1886 (D. C. Heath & Co.)— 
This small manual for practical zoology covers the whole animal 
kingdom in a concise manner, and will be found a convenient 
work for the student. / 
IV. MiscELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
1. Ice Period in the Altai Mountains—Mr. E. Micuartis, in 
Nature of December 16 (p. 149) states that in the southern part 
of the Altai, where there are now some large glaciers, there are 
evidences of “a mighty spreading of ancient glaciers.” The 
evidences occur to the south on the ranges of Tarbagatay and 
Savor, the southern limits of the basin of the Irtysch, where there 
are now no glaciers. There are great bowlder and cobble- 
stone deposits on the northern slopes, extending for ten miles 
from south to north. The Savor chain is a post- ‘Tertiary eleva- 
tion; the Altai is of remote age, and must have formed dry land 
since the Cretaceous period at ; least. 
2. Signal Service Bureau.—The death of the head of this 
bureau, General Hazen, opens the question as to the best suc- 
cessor. The work of the bureau is scientific in the collection of 
