The American Naturalist. 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Dr. W. J. Vigelius, well known for his researches on the anatomy 
and embryology of the Polyzoa, died at the Hague, December 3, 
1889. 
Dr. G. C. Vosmaer is no longer at the Naples Zoological Staton, 
but may be addressed at the Zoological Laboratory, Utrecht, Holland. 
Dr. Franz Johon, recently privat-docent in Bonn, has been called 
to the chair of botany and zoology in the Normal School of Santiago, 
Chili. 
Prof. Hemrecatt, the Nestor of French botanists, died in Paris, De- 
cember 23, 1889, at the age of 91 years. 
Prof. R. A. Philippi, of Santiago, Chili, celebrated his 80th birth- 
day on the 1 8th of September last. 
Mr. Charles L. Flint died in Boston, February 26, 1889. He was 
born in Middleton, Mass., May 8, 1824, and was appointed Secretary of 
the Ma.ssachusetts Board of Agriculture in 1853, holding the position 
for twenty-five years. While Secretary he issued the second edition o 
Dr. Harris's " Injurious Insects," and published a series of annual 
reports which from either scientific or agricultural aspect have not 
been excelled in this country. He was influential in the establishment 
of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, and the Institute of Tech- 
nology. 
M. Suchetet, professor at Rouen, France, would be very much obliged 
to any person making known to him the hybrid animals they possess 
or have observed in other places, living or stuffed. 
Dr. Victor Signoret, one of the most prominent students of the 
Hemiptera, died at Paris, April 3, 1889. 
Dr. H. A. Mayer, who with Karl Mobius was engaged in the study 
of the Fauna of the Gulf of Kiel, died at Forsteck, May i, 1888. 
Dr. G. Ruge, of Heidelberg, is the successor of Dr. Max Furbrin- 
ger, at Amsterdam. 
Several deaths of naturalists have escaped notice in these pages at 
the time. Among these are those of Giovanni Bellonci, the anatomist, 
died at Bologna, July i, 1888; Henry Stevenson, an English ornithol- 
