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RETIRED. 
Professor T. G. Bonney, from the chair of geology in University College, 
London, after a service of thirty years. — T. Nelson Dale, instructor in 
geology in Williams College. — Dr. H. von Eck, professor of geology in 
the Stuttgart Technical School. — Carl Gegenbaur, professor of anatomy 
in the university at Heidelberg, at the age of 74. — Dr. B. Klunzinger, 
professor of zoólogy in the Stuttgart Technical School. — Dr. E. Schmidt, 
professor of anthropology and ethnology in the university at Leipzig. 
DEATHS. 
Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke Acklund, the well-known anatomist and 
physician, October 16, aged 85.— Dr. John Anderson, zoólogist and 
former curator of the Indian Museum at Calcutta, at Buxton, England, 
aged 66. — Paul Blanchet, explorer, of yellow fever, in Senegal. — Dr. G: 
Clautrian, assistant in the botanical institute of the University of Brussels, 
at Davos, Switzerland, May 23, aged 37. — Dr. A. B. Frank, professor of 
botany in the Agricultural School in Berlin, September 27, aged 61.— 
Dr. S. Gheorgieff, professor of botany in Sofia, Bulgaria, May 22.— 
I. Ingenitzky, entomologist, at Nowovossiisk, Russia, May 20. — Abbé A. B. 
Langlois, botanical „collector, at St. Martinsville, La., August 1. ios wih 
Joseph Mik, student of Diptera, at Vienna, October 13, aged 62. — Victor 
Lopez Sevane, ornithologist and entomologist, at Corufia, Spain, July 14. — 
General Sir R. Murdoch Smith, director of the Museum of Science and Art, 
at Edinborough, June 3. — Miss Margaret Stokes, an Irish archeologist. — 
r. A. von Strombeck, geologist, in Braunschweig, July 25; aged pr. — 
Professor G. H. F. Ulrich, geologist and director of the School of Mines at 
Otago, New Zealand, in May, as the result of an accident while collecting. 
