106 Scientific News. [Jan. 
and will make about twelve parts of three hundred and twenty 
pages each, and is issued at a price of seven marks per part. 
— Gustav Haller, a student of the mites, died May 1, 1886, at 
Berne. 
— George Busk, a well-known English zoologist, whose 
writings on the Polyzoa and Hydrozoa are standards, died in 
London, August 10, 1886, in his seventy-eighth year. 
— Students of the Coleoptera will miss Maurice Girard, a 
French entomologist, who died in August, 1886, aged sixty-four ; 
and even more Baron Edgar von Harold, who, with Gemminger, 
compiled a most valuable catalogue of the Coleoptera of the 
world. He died in Munich, August 1, 1886. 
r. A. C. Oudemans, of Utrecht, has been made director of 
the 2 Tabora Gardens at the Hague. His place as Conor eee 
of the Zoological Museum of Utrecht has been filled by C. H 
van Herwerden. 
— Karl Plötz, a student of the Lepidoptera, died at Greifswald, 
August 12, 1886, aged seventy-three 
— H. C. Weinkauf, a ¢onchologist, died at Kreuznach, August 
14, 1886. 
— Professor A. Hyatt’s “ Larval Theory of the Origin of Tis- 
sues” has been translated into Pelletan’s Journal de Micrographie. 
— Dr. Alois von Alth, the mineralogist and paleontologist of 
Cracow, died November 5, 1886. He was professor of miner- 
alogy in the University of Ceao. 
— Professor L. Dieulafait, professor of geology at Marseilles, 
died recently. Dr. ek ‘of Lyons, has received a call to fill 
e chair thus left vacan 
— Mr. Edward J. Sn the eminent student of Crustacea, has 
been forced by continued ill health to resign his position as as- 
sistant in the British Museum 
— To the French desire for conquest and colonization is to be 
attributed the death of the celebrated physiologist Paul Bert. He 
was born at Auxerre, France, October 17, 1833. In 1867 he 
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sand dollars. In 1878 he became president of the Biological 
Society of France, and in 1882 was made a member of the Acad- 
emy of Sciences. ‘He held various political offices, and exhibited 
_ such administrative ability that he was appoin inted governor of 
_ the newly-conquered province of Tonkin. He died at Hanoi, 
_ November 11, 1886. 
~ —A new Centralblatt für Bacteriologie und Parasitenkunde i is 
annot rpe Tio eo ouse of Gustav Fischer, Jena. 
