No.428.] GIFTS, APPOINTMENTS, RETIREMENTS. 681 
DEATHS. 
Sergius Alpheraky, Russian entomologist. — Prof. Ernst von Ballion, 
entomologist, at Novorossiisk, Russia, Sept. 9, 1901, aged 84.— Dr. 
C. Berg, director of the National Museum in Buenos Aires, and a well- 
known zoólogist, January 19. — Dr. Alexander Bittner, head geologist of 
the Austrian Geological Survey in Vienna, April t. — Dr. Hans Buchner, 
professor of bacteriology in the university at Munich, April 5, aged 51.— 
Stanislaus Clément, zoólogist and former head of the museum at Nímes, 
February 7, aged 73. — J. Ottoman Dietz, student of Coleoptera, in New 
York, December 25. — Henri Filhol, vertebrate paleontologist of the Paris 
Natural History Museum, April 28, aged 6o. — Dr. Friederich Leopold 
Goltz, professor of physiology in the university at Strassburg, May 4, aged 
— C. J. Emil Haglund, student of Hemiptera, at Lommaryd, Sweden, 
Dec. 9, 1901, aged 64. — Emil Holub, African traveler and ornithologist, in 
Vienna, February 21, aged 55.— Dr. Joseph Kriechbaumer, student of 
Hymenoptera, in Munich, May 2.— T. J. Léger, professor of botany in 
College, Washington, Pa., Sept. 28, 1901. — Dr. Emil Adolf Lóvendal, 
conservator of the soblogical museum at UM entomologist and skill- 
ful engraver on copper, July 6, 1901, aged 6 . C. Mausel-Pleydell, 
zoólogist, in Whatcombe, England, May 3, disi pe — Carl Nehring, col- 
lector, in Piracicaba, Brazil, Januar ary 3. — Joseph Nolan, assistant on the 
geological survey of Ireland, in Dublin, April 19. — . Penning of the 
geological survey of the United Kingdom, in London, April 20. — Andreas 
Reischet, naturalist and head of the Linz Museum, aged 55. — Dr. Carlo 
Riva, instructor in petrography in the university at Pavia, killed by an 
avalanche on Monte Grigna, June 3. — Baron Friedrich Rosen, professor 
of mineralogy in the university at Kazan, aged 68. — Dr. Richard Burton 
Rowe of the U.S. Geological Survey, at Los Angeles, Cal, May 26, aged 
39. — Dr. Ferdinand Sommer, formerly professor of anatomy at Greifswald, 
aged 74. — Baron E. von Tróltsch, archeologist of Würtemburg, June 29, 
I9or, aged 73. 
(No. 427 was mailed July 15.) 

