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PROCEEDINGS  OE  THE  GEOLOGICAL  SOCIETY. 
[May  1893, 
of  our  Society  in  1883,  and  received  tlie  Murchison  Medal  in  1888. 
From  1867  until  recently  he  was  President  of  the  New  York 
Academy  of  Sciences.  He  was  a  man  of  great  excellence  of  cha¬ 
racter.  While  deeply  devoted  to  science  and  an  earnest  worker,  he 
was  yet  willing  to  give  up  several  years  to  the  superintendence  of 
soldiers’  hospitals  at  the  time  of  his  country’s  need. 
Dr.  Newberry  died  on  the  7th  December,  1892,  within  a  few 
days  of  completing  his  70th  year. 
Nicolai  J.  von  Kokscharow,  Major-General  in  the  Russian  Army, 
was  born  in  Siberia  on  the  5th  December,  1818,  and  at  the  age  of 
12  was  sent  to  St.  Petersburg  to  be  educated  at  the  Military  School 
of  Mines.  When  only  22  years  of  age  he  had  the  good  fortune  to 
be  selected  to  accompany  Murchison  and  De  Verneuil  during  three 
successive  summers,  and  afterwards  De  Keyserling,  in  their  exten¬ 
sive  journeys  through  different  parts  of  Russia.  Subsequently 
Kokscharow  spent  some  years  in  foreign  countries,  where  he  had 
good  opportunities  for  making  the  acquaintance  of  distinguished 
men  of  science,  but  always  with  a  leaning  towards  the  mineralo¬ 
gists,  of  whom,  in  England,  Miller  was  his  chief  correspondent. 
On  his  return  to  Russia  he  received  important  appointments  in 
connexion  with  scientific  institutions,  all  more  or  less  under  the 
government  of  that  country,  and  ultimately  he  was  appointed  to 
the  Directorship  of  the  Institute  of  Mines,  a  post  which  he  occupied 
for  13  years.  In  1865  he  was  made  an  Honorary  Member  and 
Director  of  the  Imperial  St.  Petersburg  Mineralogical  Society, 
afterwards  becoming  Honorary  Director  in  1891.  Such  was  the 
esteem  in  which  he  was  held  by  men  of  science  that,  when  his 
jubilee  was  celebrated  in  1887,  addresses  of  congratulation  from  all 
parts  of  the  world  poured  in  upon  the  Russian  savant. 
Of  his  works,  which  were  numerous,  the  most  important  is  the 
‘  Materialen  zur  Mineralogie  Russlands,’  the  publication  of  which, 
in  ten  volumes,  ranged  from  1853  to  1891.  We  can  well  believe 
that  a  country  so  rich  in  minerals  as  Russia,  both  European  and 
Asiatic,  must  have  afforded  a  congenial  field  for  the  exercise 
of  Kokscharow’s  talents,  but  the  Author  ultimately  included  the 
minerals  of  other  countries  in  his  magnum  opus.  The  publications 
of  the  Imperial  St.  Petersburg  Mineralogical  Society  are  full  of 
papers  by  him.  A  collection  of  topaz,  on  which  he  worked,  is  now 
in  the  British  Museum  ;  whilst  our  own  Quarterly  Journal  con¬ 
tains  abstracts  of  two  of  his  papers  furnished  by  Count  Marschall, 
