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the first named place, and serve to correlate the formation with Conrad’s 
Astoria Miocene. The fauna of the Sooke beds is quite different from 
any of the Oregon or Californian Miocene or Pliocene faunas known to 
the writer. His conclusion, however, from evidence in hand, is that 
the Sooke beds are of middle Neocene age, and that the time of their 
deposition was considerably later than that of the Carmanah Point 
beds. (Univ. Calif. Bull., Dept. Geol., Vol. 2, 1896.) 
_ A recent Palletin of the Soe. Belge de Geol. contains a figure of the 
femur of th key found by Kaup in the Pliocene 
beds (Rhenan) at Eppelsheim (Haut-Rhin). At first it was decided not 
to separate this form generically from the Dryopithecus of Saint- 
Gauden’s, but a recent critical comparison made by Pholig demonstrates 
that such a distinction should be made. He therefore proposes the 
name Paidopithex rhenanus for the Eppelsheim species. A comparison 
of the Rhenan femur with those of modern allied forms shows it to be 
more anthropomorphous, both in general and in many details, than are 
those of the Gorilla or the Chimpanzee. (Bull. Soc. Belge de Geol., 7, 
IX (1895), 1897.) 
BOTANY.’ 
The Death of Sachs.—The death of Dr. Julius von Sachs, in 
Wiirzburg, on May 28th, is announced. He was born in Breslau in 
1832, and was therefore sixty-five years of age at the time of his death. 
He was educated in the University of Prague, and in 1859 became 
assistant in physiological botany in the Royal Experiment Station at 
Tharandt, Saxony. In 1861 he became professor of botany in Bonn ; 
in 1867 in Freiburg, and in 1868 in Wiirzburg. His most noted works 
are Handbuch der Experimental-Physiologie der Pflanzen (1865) ; Lehr- 
buch der Botanik (1st edition, 1868 ; 2d, 1870; 3d, 1873; 4th, 1874). 
Geschichte der Botanik (1875), Vorlesungen über Pflanzen- Physiologie 
(1882), and Abhundlungen über Pflanzen-Physiologie (1892). Of these 
the third and fourth editions of the Lehrbuch, Geschichte and Vorle- 
sungen über Pflanzen-Physiologie were translated into English, and 
have been for years familiar to all classes of botanists in this country. 
The appearance of Bennett and Dyer’s translation to the third edition 
of the Lehrbuch in 1875 marked an epoch in botany in America. The 
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