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Deaths— On April nth, Sir Monier Monier-Williams, K.C.I.E., M.A., Hon D.C.L. of the University of Oxford ; Honorary LL.D. of the University of Calcutta ; Honorary Ph. D. of the University of Gottingen ; Honorary Member of the Asiatic Societies of Bengal and Bombay, and of the Oriental and Philosophical Societies of America ; Boden Professor of Sanskrit, and late fellow of Baliol College, Ox- ford, etc. Born at Bombay, 181 9 ; studied at King's College, London, and at the East Indian Company's College at Haileybury ; became Boden Sanskrit scholar at Oxford University, 1843, was graduated 1844 ; professor of Sanskrit at Haileybury College from 1844 to 1858, and at Cheltenham from 1858 to i860 ; became Boden professor of Sanskrit at Oxford in i860, retaining the chair until his death ; was knighted in 1886. Among his published works are "Buddhism"; " Brahmanism and HindQism, or Religious Thought and Life in India " ; "Indian Wisdom, or Examples of the Religious, Philosophical, and Ethical Doctrines of the Hindus " ; " Modern India and the Indians " ; " Hinduism " ; " Sanskrit-English Dictionary " ; " English -Sanskrit Dictionary"; " Practical Sanskrit Grammar"; "Sanskrit Manual with Exercises"; " Kalidasa's Sakuntala" " ; " Vikramorvasf " ; "A Free Translation in English Prose and Verse of the Sanskrit Drama Sakoontala " ; " Story of Nala " ; " Application of the Roman Alpha- bet to the Languages of India " ; " Practical Hindustani Grammar " ; " Bagh o BahSr " ; Indian Epic Poetry " ; " The Holy Bible and the Sacred Books of the East."

On July 2, Sir William Henry Flower, K.C.B., F.R.S., aged 67 years ; conservator of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons ; Hunterian professor of anatomy (1870- 1884) ; director of the natural history department of the British Museum (1884-1898) ; president of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1883— 1885), and of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1889).

In London, July 5, Richard Congreve, a well-known writer on Comte's philosophy and on social and political topics, aged 81 years.

At Atlantic City, New Jersey, July 31, Daniel Garrison Brinton, aged 62. A fuller notice appears elsewhere in this number, but an ex- tended account of Dr Brinton's life and work is reserved for a future issue.

At Cincinnati, Ohio, August 26, Robert Clarke, publisher, bibli- ographer, historian, and archeologist, aged 70 years.

Oluf Rygh, professor of archeology at Christiania, aged 80 years.

On June 14, Dr N. Grote, professor of psychology and philosophy at the University of Moscow.

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