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ogist, died at Norwich, August 18, 1888; Johann Kriesch, professor of 
zoology in the Budapest Polytechnicum, died October 24, 1888 ; 
Churchill Babbington, an English botanist and ornithologist, died Janu- 
ary 12, 1889; Bellier de la Chavignerie, a French entomologist, died 
September 27, 1888; Richard S. Wray, an English student of the 
morphology of birds, died February 12, 1889. 
M. Fernand Lataste has left Paris to accept the position of Director 
of the National Natural History Museum, and Professor of Zoology in 
the medical school at Santiago, Chili. 
Dr. J. W. Van Wijhe, of Freiburg, has been appointed ordinary 
professor of anatomy in the University of Groningen. 
Prof. Guiseppe Meneghini died in Pisa, January 29, 1889. He was 
born in Padua, July 30, 181 1, and held for nearly thirty years the pro- 
fessorship of physics, botany and chemistry in the university there. In 
1848 he was called to the chair of geology in the university at Padua, 
a position which he held at the time of his death. 
The Late Xenos Y. Clark.— Xenos Young Clark, well-known 
on the Pacific Coast as well as in Massachusetts, died on the fourth day 
of last June at the residence of his mother in Amherst, in the latter 
State. He was the son of Prof. Henry James Clark, who died in 
the same place on the first of July, 1873. 
The father first became known to the scientific world as a very 
promising student of the late Prof. Asa Gray. He was afterwards and 
for several years associated with Prof. Louis Agassiz as an assistant, and 
in i860 became adjunct Professor of Zoology at Harvard College; 
after this he was connected with the Agricultural College of Pennsyl- 
vania, the University of Kentucky, and in 1872 with the Massachusetts 
Agricultural College at Amherst. He was a large contributor to the 
late Prof. Agassiz's volumes on the Natural History of the United 
States, and was also the author of various papers, memoirs, etc. His 
volume " Mind in Nature," the result of his micro-physiological stud- 
ies, published in 1865, an imperial octavo of over 300 pages, and his 
memoir on " The Lucernariae and their Allies," a quarto of one hun- 
dred and thirty pages and several plates, forming number 242 of the 
Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, etc., are perhaps his chief 
works; the latter appeared in 1878. 
Xenos, the son, was born in Boston in May 1853, and studied in 
the preparatory department of the Kentucky University at Lexington, 
