We have to record the deaths of F. A. Obach, electrical engineer, at Grätz, Austria, December 27th, aged forty-six years. He was author of numerous papers on subjects of electrical science in English and German publications, and of lectures on the chemistry of India rubber and gutta percha; Dr. Reinhold Ehret, seismologist and author of books on earthquakes and seismometers, who died from an Alpine accident in the Susten Pass; Dr. Joseph Coats, professor of pathology at the University of Glasgow, and author of a manual of pathology, a work on tuberculosis, etc.; Thomas Hincks, F. R. S., author of books on marine zoölogy, February 2d; Major J. Hotchkiss, president in 1895 of the Geological Section of the American Association and author of papers on economic geology and engineering; Wilbur Wilson Thoburn, professor of biomechanics at Leland Stanford Junior University; Dr. Giuseppe Gibelli, professor of botany in the University of Turin; Dr. G. Wolffhüzel, professor of hygiene in the University of Göttingen; Dr. Dareste de Chavannes, author of researches in animal teratology, and formerly president of the French Society of Anthropology; Dr. Rupert Böck, professor of mechanics in the Technical Institute of Vienna; William Colenso, F. R. S., of New Zealand, naturalist and author of investigations of Maori antiquities and myths; Dr. Lench, assistant in the observatory at Zürich, Switzerland; Dr. Franz Lang, rector and teacher of natural history in the cantonal schools of Soleure, Switzerland, and one of the presidents of the Swiss Natural History Society, aged seventy-eight years; Dr. William Rutherford, professor of physiology in the University of Edinburgh, and author of several books in that science, February 21st, in his sixtieth year; and Sir Douglas Galton, president of the British Association in 1895 and an authority and author on sanitation, March 10th, in his seventy seventh year. INDEX. ARTICLES MARKED WITH AN ASTERISK ARE ILLUSTRATED. Academy della Crusca, The. (Frag.), 572 Adulteration of Butter with Glucose. (Frag.), 570 Allen, Grant. The Season of the Year, 230 America, Middle. Was it Peopled from Asia? E. S. Morse, 1 Animals' Bites. (Frag.), 430 Anthropology. Decorated Skulls and the Power ascribed to them (Frag.), 570 " Estrays from Civilization. (Frag.), 573 " Huichol Indians of Jalisco. (Frag.), 574 " Lessons of. (Table), 411 " Pre-Columbian Musical Instruments. E. S. Morse*, 712 " Superstitions, Aboriginal, about Bones. (Frag.), 572 " Superstition and Crime. E. P. Evans, 206 Archæology. Earliest Writing in France. G. de Mortillet, 546 " Lake Dwelling, A Neolithic, 856 " Stone Age in Egypt. J. de Morgan, 202 Architectural Forms in Nature. S. Dellenbaugh*, 63 Astronomical Photographs, A Library of. (Frag.), 717 Astronomy. Bombardment, The Great. C. F. Holder*, 506