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cal School.— Alice V. Wilcox, instructor in zoology- in Wellesley College.— 

 Dr. Ernst Wilczek, professor of botany in the university at Lausanne.— Dr. 

 F. A. Wilder, state geologist and professor of geology in the University of 

 North Dakota. 



RETIREMENTS. 



DEATHS. 



Homer Franklin Bassett, student of Hymenoptera at Waterbury, Conn., 

 June 28, aged 76.— Dr. Andreas Nikol Betekow, formerly professor of 

 botany in the Universities at Charkow and St. Petersburg, July 14.— Mr. 

 R. A. Blair, geologist, at Sedalia. Missouri.— Ladislava Celakowskeho, pro- 



Leche Chesnevieux, geologist and traveler, aged 86.— Thomas Comber, 

 botanist, in Blackpool, England, [anuary 24. 1902— Dr. J. G. Cooper, 

 zoologist, in Havwards. C alifornia, fulv u), aged 72.— Augustin Alexis 

 Damour, mineralogist, in Paris, September 21, aged 94.— M. DeWrain, 

 professor of plant physiology in the Paris Museum of Natural History.— 

 Louise Brisbm Dunn, tutor in botany in Barnard^ College, December 18.— 



thologist, in Freiburg in' Sarhs, ,, in \u-um Mr William tiunn, district 

 geologist of the BrhUI, ( ,rolo» iral Survev. October 23, aged 65.— Dr. 

 Theodor von Heldrirh. professor of botan'v and director of the botanical 

 gardens in Athens. September 7. Dr. lohann Janko, director of the ethno- 

 graphical section of the Hungarian Museum at Budapest, aged 34.— Ludwig 

 Kumlein, naturalist of t lu- Donate expedition, in Milton, Wisconsin, in 



