No.412.] GIFTS, APPOINTMENTS, RETIREMENTS. 335 
RETIRED. 
Sir A. Geikie, from the directorship of the geological survey of Great 
Britain. — Dr. Friedrich Goltz, professor of physiology in the University of 
Strassburg. —Dr. Georg Meissner, professor of physiology in the University 
at Góttingen. — Dr. E. von Mozsisovics of Vienna, from the position of 
vice-director of the Austrian geological survey. — Dr. Max Reess, professor 
of botany in the University at Erlangen. — John C. Smock, for ten years 
state geologist of New Jersey. — Dr. Filippo Sylvestri, from the position of 
chief of the zoólogical section of the National Museum of Buenos Aires. 
DEATHS. 
Dr. Theodor Adensamer, zoólogist, in Baden, near Vienna, November 
I6, aged 33. — Dr. . von es, emeritus professor of botany in the 
Stuttgart technical school, in August. — Dr. Richard Altmann, professor 
extraordinary of histology in the University of Leipzig.— F. R. Bedford, 
student of echinoderms, in London. — Dr. G. Boerlage, assistant director of 
the botanical gardens at Buitenzorg, Java, in September, while on an expe- 
dition to Ternate.— Dr. Breusing, assistant in geology in the Hannover 
technical school, while on a trip in Dutch Guiana. — Mr. Philip Crowley, 
entomologist and ornithologist, in London, December 20. — S. W. Egan, of 
the geological survey of Ireland, at Dublin, January 6. — Dr. Gustav Hart- 
laub, the celebrated ornithologist, at Bremen, November 20, aged 87.— 
r. R. Hegeler, privat docent for botany at Rostock, at Stuttgart, Septem- 
ber 28.— Dr. George Duryea Hulst, the well-known entomologist, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y., November 5, aged 54.— Dr. William King, for thirteen 
years connected with the geological survey of India. — Dr. Philip H. Kirsch, 
ichthyologist, at Las Cruces, New Mexico. — Dr. S. J. Korschinski, bota- 
nist, at St. Petersburg, December 1.— Mr. R. D. Lacoe, the well-known 
collector of carboniferous fossils, at West Pittston, Pa., February 5. — John 
Henry Leech, entomologist, at Salisbury, England, December 29, aged 38. 
— Thomas Benton Marbut, geologist and mining engineer, at Esther, Mo., 
September 16, aged 29. — Dr. W. von der Marck, geologist, in Hamm, 
Germany, November 22, aged 86.— Dr. Paul Marés, botanist, May 21, 
1990, at Mustapha, near Algiers. — Charles Marquet, entomologist of the 
Museum of Natural History at Toulouse. — John Potter Marshall, emeritus 
professor of geology and mineralogy in Tufts College, February 4, aged 76. 
ofessor Max von Pettenkoffer of the University dt Munich, by suicide, 
in January, aged 83. — Professor Dr. Adolf Pichler, pu of the Tyrol, 
at Innsbruck, November 1 5, aged 82. — E. Roze, botanist, at Chatou, France, 
May 25, 1900. — Michael Edward, Baron de Selys-Longchamps, entomolo- 
gist, well known for his studies of the Odonata, at Liége, Belgium, Decem- 
ber 11, aged 86. — Dr. Otto Staudinger of Dresden, an eminent student of 
