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anatomy, and physiology in the University of Catania, Sicily. — 
Francesco Saverio Monticelli, professor of zoology, comparative 
' anatomy, and physiology in the University of Modena. — Dr. Joseph 
Murr, of Linz, professor of botany in the Gymnasium at Trient. — 
Dr. Asajiro Oka, professor of zoology in the Higher Normal School 
in Tokyo.— Dr. Polumordinow, docent in histology in the Uni- 
versity of Kazan. — Romul Alex Prendel, professor of geology and 
mineralogy in the University of Odessa.— Dr. J. D. E. Schmeltz, 
keeper of the Ethnographic Museum at Leiden. — Dr. Alexis E. 
Smirnow, professor of zoology in the University of Tomsk, Siberia. 
— W. J. Sollas, professor of geology in the University of Oxford. — 
Dr. A. Steuer, of Dresden, privat docent in mineralogy in the Uni- 
versity of Jena.— Dr. Hermann Triepel, docent for anatomy in the 
University of Greifswald. — W. G. Van Name, assistant in biology 
in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. — Rudolf 
Weber, director of the Forestry Station in Munich. — Dr. Kurt Wolf, 
docent for bacteriology in the Technical High School in Dresden. 
Recent deaths: Edmund J. Baillie, botanist, at Chester, England, 
aged 47 years. — Georg Berthelin, student of the fossil mollusks of 
the Paris basin. — Horace W. L. Billington, director of the Botanical 
Gardens of Old Calyhar, Nov. 18, aged 28.— Henry N. Bolander, 
botanist, at Portland, Oregon, Aug. 28, 1897.— Dr. Hugh Calderwood, 
demonstrator of anatomy in the University of Edinburgh. — John 
Finlay, lepidopterist, in London, July 4, 1897.— Oskar Friedrich von 
Fraas, professor of paleontology in Stuttgart, Nov. 22, aged 73 years. 
— Dr. E. P. Franz, of London, student of neurology. — Dr. Friedrich 
Adolf Hoffmann, geologist, in Mexico. — J. B. von Keller, botanist, in 
Vienna, Nov. 14, 1897. — Dr. Gaetano Licocopoli, assistant professor 
of botany and assistant in the Botanical Gardens at Naples. — Jean 
Linden, botanist, in Brussels, Dec. 12, aged 81 years. —The mis- 
sionary R. Montrouzier, well known as an entomologist and collector, 
May 16, 1897, in New Caledonia, aged 76 years. — Rev. Charles 
Samuel Pollock Parish, botanist, Oct. 18, in Somerset, England, aged 
75 years, — Dr. Friedrich Oskar Pilling, teacher of botany and author 
of elementary botanical text-books in Altenburg, Saxony, Nov. 22, 
ed 73 years. — Dr. Ivan Otto Plekarsky, custodian of the zoological 
collections of the University of St. Petersburg, aged 30 years. — 
Heinrich Ribbe, entomologist, at Radebeul, near Dresden, Jan. 19, 
aged 65 years. — Oskar von Riesenthal, ornithologist, in Berlin, Jan. 
21, aged 67 years. — Alexander Thominot, student of reptiles and 
