* as a bulletin by the Bureau. 
a. ; Scientific News. ` 
—Dr. John Frenzel, of Berlin, sailed July 20 to take the po 
tion of professor of zoology and director of the museum 
Cordova, Argentine Republic. . 
—The late Richard Cranch Greenleaf, who died recently 
Boston, bequeathed his microscopical library, microscopes, a 
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apparatus to the Boston Society of Natural History. 
—Mr, James C. Pilling, of the Bureau of Ethnology, has 
some time been collecting materials for a bibliography of North 
American Linguistics. He has now nearly completed the por 
tion relating to the Eskimo languages, and this will be pub 
__ —William Boott, who died in Boston May 16, 1887, was bo 
in that city June 15,1805. Like his brother, the late Francs 
Boott, he was a botanist, and devoted himself to the dif 
groups of grasses and sedges. His botanical collections g° 
1 =W. L. Sclater, of Oxford, England, has been app ge 
deputy superintendent of the Indian Museum in eae yod 
—Mr. James E. Hum hrey, assistant in the botanital ai 
Ogist, at Plymouth, England, April 28, aged sixty-Se¥ 
Hellins, student of British Lepidoptera, at Exeter, K 
Ta 9, aged fifty-eight; Sir Walter Elliot, of London, 2°" 
Ke) 
ical traveller and writer upon evolution, May 31, 4! ologist 
three years; Robert Gray, the well-known ornith nail 
Edinburgh, February 18; Professor Bernard Studer, 862 
F Bern, Switzerland, May 2, aged ninety-three. ee 
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