98 The American Naturalist. [January, 
time for elephant, and to render illegal the exportation or sale of tusks 
under a certain age. (Nature, Oct., 1896.) 
Dr. Baumann, who died at Freiburg, on November 2d, in his 
forty-ninth year, was Professor of Medical Chemistry at the University 
e Freiburg i. ~A Ahe “n of a chemist he served the full term of'a 
i ip and then entered the Technical College of 
Stuttgart in order to concplatis his studies in physics, chemistry and 
natural science. Thence he went to Tübingen to take his diploma. 
There the noted physiologist, Hoppe-Seyler, recognized his talent and 
made him his assistant ; and when he left Tiibingen to take a professor- 
ship at the University of Strassburg, in Alsace, in 1872, Baumann ac- 
companied him. In 1879 Baumann was made Director of the Chemical 
Department of the Physiological Institute of Berlin. In 1882 he went 
to Freiburg as ordinary professor of medical chemistry, and there re- 
mained until his death. 
Dr. Theodor Morgo died September 5, 1896, at Szent Lorinez 
in the Comitat Boranyu. He was born in 1816, and at the time of his 
death was Professor of Zoology at the University of Budapest. 
Dr. Raffaele Zoja died September 26, 1896, in consequence of 
an Alpine catastrophe. Dr. Zoja was born March 10, 1869 and at the 
time of his death had done considerable work in the field of histology 
and embryology. Under Maggi he worked upon Hydra; at the 
Naples Zoological Station, upon the cell structure of the lower inver- 
tebrates; at Messina with Kleinenberg, on the ontogenomechanics of 
Medusa ; and in Berlin with O. Hertwig on the development of Ascaris 
megalocephala. This last work he had just finished at the time of his 
death. 
Dr. August Louis Boot died Aug. 30, 1896. He was born Sept. 
18, 1821 and took the degree of M. D. in 1845. Medicine not proving to 
his taste he gave up practice for the study of conchology in which he 
became well known as the author of “ Materiaux pour servir a l'étude 
de la famille des Mèlaries ” (1868), “ Catalogue scientifique des especes 
qui composent la famille des Mélaniens” (1862), and “ Die Melaniaceen 
in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen.” 
It is to be noted that the salary attached to the position of Mackay 
Bacteriologist to the Linnzean Society of New South Wales, which re- 
cently advertised in Nature for applicants, arises from £12,000 be- 
queathed by Mr. Wm. Mackay. His total benefactions to the society 
amount to £100,000. The object of the appointment is entirely the 
advancement of natural knowledge by research. 
