68 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. 
Museum in Berlin. — Dr. S. C. Mahalanobis, demonstrator in physi- 
ology in University College of South Wales. — Dr. Heinrich Matiegka, 
privat docent in anthropology in the Bohemian University in Prague. 
— Dr. Hermann Munk, full professor of physiology in the University 
of Berlin.— Prof. Wladimir Iwanowitsch Palladin, director of the 
Botanical Gardens at Warsaw. — Louis V. Pirsson, of New Haven, 
professor of physical geology in Harvard University. — Dr. W. A. 
Rothert, of Kazan, professor extraordinarius of botany in the Univer- 
sity of Charkoff. — Dr. Schéndorf, privat docent in physiology in the 
University of Bonn. — Dr. A. W. Shern, demonstrator in anatomy in 
University College of South Wales. — Dr. Spiro, privat docent in 
physiological chemistry in the University of Strasburg. — A. E 
Walden, lecturer on natural science in New College, Oxford. — 
Prof. A. Fischer von Waldheim goes to St. Petersburg as director of 
the Botanical Gardens. — Dr. P. Zwaardemaker, professor of physi- 
ology in the University of Utrecht. 
Recent deaths: William Archer, of Dublin, well known for his 
researches on Protozoa and the lower plants. — Dr. Leopold Auer- 
bach, professor extraordinary of physiology in the University of 
Breslau. — Prof. Oskar Boer, bacteriologist, in Berlin, July 11, aged 
54. — Samuel Brassai, naturalist, of Klausenburg, June 24, aged 100. 
— Dr. M. Euchler, editor of the Æntomologischer Zeitschrift, in Guben, 
Prussia, in August. — Emil Fiek, author of the lora of Schleswick, in 
Kunersdorf, June 21. — Nikolaus Golowkinsky, formerly professor 
of geology and mineralogy in the Universities of Kasan and Odessa, 
June 9, in the Crimea. —Georg Lieder, geologist, in Bogota, July 
1, aged 35. — Rev. Andrew Matthews, English student of the 
microcoleoptera. — Sir Peter Le Page Renouf, archeologist and for 
several years a keeper in the British Museum, in October, aged 75: 
— Charles Stewart Roy, professor of pathology in the University of 
Cambridge, well known as a physiologist, Oct. 4, 1897, aged 43: — ` 
Dr. Emil Schmidt, teacher of zoology in the Berlin Gymnasia. — 
W. Wache, director of the Zoological Gardens in Liibeck, by suicide, 
July 19. — Dr. Hermann Welcker, formerly professor of anatomy - 
the University of Halle. -— Charles Bygrave Wharton, ornithologist, 
in Totten, England. 
