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University of New Mexico. — Dr. F. Noll, professor of botany in the 
Poppelsdorf Agricultural School at Bonn. — Surgeon Major David 
Prain, superintendent of the Botanical Gardens at Calcutta. — Dr. 
Heinrich Ries, instructor in economic geology in Cornell University. 
— Prof. John Weinzetl, of Madison, Wisconsin, director of the 
bacteriological laboratory and associate professor of biology in 
the University of New Mexico. 
Recent deaths: Alfred Allen; at Bath, England, formerly editor of 
the Journal of Microscopy and Natural Science, March 24, aged 64. — 
Melville Atwood, geologist and metallurgist, at Berkeley, California, 
April 25, in his 88th year. — John Shearson Hyland, petrologist, on 
the west coast of Africa, April 19, aged 32. — Dr. F. Sandberger, 
professor of mineralogy in the University of Würzburg, aged 72. 
