634 The American Naturalist. [July, 
It is then washed for 24 hours in water, passed through the grades 
of alcohol and imbedded in paraffine. The sections are stained with 
safranin according to the method of Babes,’ viz.: To a 2% aqueous 
solution of aniline oil is added an excess of safranin. Stain in ather- 
mostat at 50° C., decolorize for an instant in acid alcohol, mount in 
balsam. 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Recent Deaths.—Dr. Andrew Crombie Ramsay, the geologist, 
Dec. 9, 1891, at the age of 76 years. He was largely self-taught 
and was appointed Professor of Geology in University College, 
London, in 1848. In 1851 he was chosen to the same chair in the 
newly formed School of Mines. He was said to be without a superior 
as a lecturer. Dr. J. F. Williams, Professor of Mineralogy and Geol- 
ogy in Cornell University, was but 29 years old at the time of his 
death. He was a graduate of the Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute and 
received his doctor’s degree from the University of Göttingen. Before 
going to Cornell he was connected with the Pratt Institute, at Brook- 
lyn, and with the Arkansas Geological Survey. Baron Achille de 
Zigno, the well-known geologist, in Padua, January 18, 1892. Carl 
Freiherr von Camerlander, Praktikant in the Museum of the Geolog- | 
ical Reichsanstalt, in Vienna, Jan. 17, 1892. J. W. Ewald, geologist, 
in Berlin, in December, 1891, aged 81. George Haggar, some forty 
years ago a collector of Lepidoptera, at Ore, England, Jan. 10, 1892, 
aged 75. Francis Archer, conchologist and entomologist, at Liver- 
pool, March 1, 1892, aged 52. 
Tufts College, at College Hill, Mass., has established a chair of 
biology, and Dr. J. S. Kingsley has been appointed to fill the position. 
Prof. J. P. Marshall retains the geology and mineralogy. 
In a recent popular work on evolution is a“‘ glossary ” of scientific 
terms in which the following typographical error occurs: “ Zoea, the 
larva of decayed (? decapod) crustaceans.” 
Zeit. f. wiss. Mikro., iv, p. 470, 1887. 
