1108 The American Naturalist. [November, 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
John Rafs, a student of the Desmids, died at Penzance, July 14, aged 
eighty-three years. 
Dr. L. W. Schaufuss, the entomologist, died July 19, at Dresden, 
Germany. 
Dr. Alexander von Bunge, formerly Professor of Botany at Dorpat, 
died in Livland, July 18, aged eighty-seven years. 
Peter Maasen, a lepidopterist of Dusselforf, who has made a specialty 
of the Saturniidz, died August 18. 
The Society of Physics and of Natural History of Geneva celebrated 
the one hundredth anniversary of its foundation October 23. 
Alfonse Farre, formerly Professor of Geology in Geneva, is dead at 
the age of seventy-seven years. 
Dr. A. Miiller, formerly Professor of Mineralogy and Geology in 
the University of Basel, died July 3. 
W. Kitchen Parker, the well-known anatomist of London, died in 
that city, July 3, aged sixty-seven years, 
Dr. Ernst Weiss, the author of a work upon the plants of the Car- 
boniferous, died in Berlin, July 4. 
Dr. W. Waagen, of Prague, has been called to the chair of Geology 
in the University of Vienna as successor to the late Prof. M. Newmayer. 
E. Ray Lankester has been made ordinary Professor of Zoology in 
the University of London. 
Dr. Carl Chun, of Kénigsberg, has been called to the University of 
Breslau, as successor to Prof. A. Schneider. 
D. Oliver has resigned the directorship of the Kew Herbarium. His 
assistant, J. G. Baker, has been promoted to the place thus left vacant. 
Sir Warrington W. Smith, the geologist, died in London, June 19, 
aged seventy-three years. 
Prof. St. George Mivart has been elected Professor of the Philosophy 
of Natural History in the University of Louvain. 
Mr. G. C. Bourne has resigned his position as Director of the Marine 
Biological Laboratory at Plymouth, England. 
