922 ` The American Naturalist. [October, 
tic and had the happy faculty of believing that the future would turn 
out well, whatever the discouragements of the moment. 
To his older botanical friends his sudden death at an age when so 
much was hoped from him for years to come, is a great shock, and they 
recall vividly his many sterling qualities as well as his capacity asa bot- 
anist. To us, connected editorially with the AMERICAN NATURALIST, 
his loss is a severe one, as he had made all arrangements to act as one 
of the editors of this magazine. 
Recent deaths: Dr. Alfred Stocquart, chief demonstrator of anatomy 
in the University of Brussels; Dr. Legros, professor of physiology in 
the same university ; H. V. Carter, professor of anatomy and physiology ' 
in Grant College, Bombay; E. Russow; former professor of botany at 
Jurjiew, April 23d, aged 56; Lucien Biart, naturalist and collector, in : 
Mexico; L. Jurani, professor of botany in the Royal University of 
Hungary, Feb. 27th, aged 59; C. J. M. Bugnion, entomologist, at 
Lausanne, Jan. 19th, aged 86; Mrs. Alice Bodington, a well-known 
contributor to the American Naturalist, ‘at New Westminster, British 
Columbia; H. D. Achon, coleopterist, at Orleans; Leon du Pasquier, 
professor of geology and paleontology in the Neuchatel Academy, in 
April, aged 33; V. Maurice Teinturier, coleopterist, in Clayeures, 
France; Madame Jean Dollfus, editor of La Feuille des jeunes Na- 
turalistes; Edmund Neminar, formerly professor of mineralogy and 
petrography in the University of Innsbruck; Victor Lemoine of 
Rheims, paleontologist; Karl Kolbel of the Vienna Hofmuseum, 
student of Arthropods, at Ponape, Caroline Islands; Alexis Jordan, 
botanist, at Lyons, France, Feb. 7th, aged 83; J. B. Hodgkinson, 
entomologist, Ashton on Ribble, England, Feb. 17th, aged 73; Fr. 
Wilh. Klatt, botanist, at Hamberg, March 3rd ; Geo. W. Traill, marine 
algologist: Alex. N. Kortschagin, curator of the zoological museum at 
Moscow, Feb. 7th; Alfred Dewevre, botanist, Feb. 27th in Congo 
State; Friederick Seelig, ichthyologist, in Cassel, March 18th; Prof. 
Hermann Friederich Kessler, student of Aphides, in Cassel; Hugh 
Nevill, collector and naturalist, at Hyères, France, April 10th; Hein- 
rich Waukel, Anthropologist, in Olmutz, aged 76; Emile Magitot, 
President of the Anthropological Society of Paris; Joseph Ewing Mac- 
farland of the U. S. Geological Survey, in Baltimore ; Sir Augustus 
Wollaston Franks, a well-known archwologist and trustee of the British 
Museum, May 21st, aged 71; W. Preyer, professor of physiology, at 
_ Wiesbaden, aged 56; Professor Chudzinski of the Paris School of An- 
thropology ; Frederick C. Straub, botanical collector in Liberia, Africa, 
March 21st, aged 26; Sir John Bucknell, neurologist, at Bournemouth, 
