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On the 1st, at Darmstadt, aged 70, Professor Ladwig Buchner. Born at Darmstadt ; educated there and at Tubingen University, where he became Lecturer on Medicine ; author oi a famous book, " Kraft and Stoff " (1855), which excited great opposition. He abandoned his academic career, practised as a physician, and wrote several works on scientific and philosophical subjects. On the 1st, at Dublin, aged 62, Rev. Sir Edmund Frederick Armstrong, second baronet, of Gallen Priory, King's County. Educated at King's College, London ; Vicar of Skeirke, 1864-74; Rector of Borris in Ossory, 1874-87. Married, 1865, Alice, daughter of W. Windsor Fisher. On the 2nd, at Berlin, aged 88, Martin Eduard von ft*""*", a distinguished politician. Born at Kdnigsberg; studied law and political sciences at the Universities of Kdnigsberg, Berlin and Bonn ; appointed Professor of Law at Kdnigsberg, 1883 ; elected to represent his native city in the National Assembly at Frankfort, 1848; President of the Parliament of Erfurt, 1850 ; leader of the Moderate Liberals in the Prussian Parliament, of which he was elected President, 1861-6; President of the Constituent Assembly, North German Parliament and Reichstag, 1867-74 ; Judge of the Supreme Court, 1879-91. On the 3rd, at Barnsbury, aged 87, Benjamin Vincent, for upwards of forty years Librarian of the Royal Institution. Reviser of " Haydn's Dictionary of Dates " from its seventh to its twenty-second edition ; author of a dictionary of biography and many other works of reference. On the 4th, at Clifton, aged 66, Mrs. Emma Marshall, a popular writer of children's stories, chiefly connected with historic places, Emma, daughter of Simon Martin, of Norwich. Married, 1854, H. G. Marshall. On the 5th, at Cambridge, aged 59, Philip Thomas Main, son of Rev. Robert Main, of Greenwich. Educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St. John's College, Cambridge ; B.A., 1863 (Sixth Wrangler) ; Fellow of St. John's, 1863, and Superintendent of the Natural Science Laboratory ; author of several astronomical treatises, etc. On the 5th, at Stevenson, Haddingtonshire, aged 78, Sir Robert Charles Sinclair, ninth baronet, son of Admiral Sir John Gordon, eighth baronet. Born at Paris; entered the Army, 1888, and served with 38th Regiment. Married, first, 1851, Charlotte Anne, daughter of Lieu- tenant John Coote, 71st Regiment ; and second, 1876, Louisa, daughter of Roderick Hugonin, of Kimmytreshouse, Inverness. On the 6th, at. Cologne, aged 79, Cardinal Kremants, Archbishop of Cologne, son of a butcher at Coblentz. Educated at Bonn and Munich ; officiated as a priest for many years at Coblentz, where he acquired great reputation ; appointed Bishop of Ermeland, West Prussia, 1867; joined the protest of a minority against the doctrine of Papal Infallibility, 1870, but afterwards accepted it ; Archbishop of Cologne, 1885 ; Cardinal, 1893. On the 6th, at London, aged 50, Captain John Pakenham Pipon, B.N., C.B., C.M.O., son of Colonel Pipon, of Moirmont Manor, Jersey. Entered the Navy, 1862; served in the Malay Expedition, 1875-6; Egyptian War and bombardment of Alexandria, 1882 ; British Consul at Beira, 1888-90, and for the territories south of the Zambesi, 1891. Married, 1881, Alice, daughter of Murray M. Johnson, of Sandgate. On the 6th, at Ventnor, aged 76, General Augustus Rltherdon. Entered the Madras Army, 1840; served in the Burmese War, 1852-3. Married, 1882, Kate, daughter of H. Cleave, of Bushey Lodge, Watford. On the 6th, at Richmond, Surrey, aged 70, Lieutenant-Colonel Henry John King, son of General Sir Henry King. Entered the Army, 1844; served with 2nd Buffs in the Chinese War, 1860. On the 7th, at Albert Gate, Hyde Park, aged 85, Sir Herbert Scarisbrick Naylor-Leyland, M.P., baronet, son of Colonel T. Naylor-Leyland, of Nantclwyd Hall, Denbighshire. Served with 2nd Life Guards, 1882-95; sat as a Conservative for Colchester, 1892-5; unsuccessfully contested South Lancashire as a Home Ruler, 1895, but was elected as a Radical, 1898; created a Baronet, 1895. Married, 1889, Jeannie, daughter of W. S. Chamberlain, of Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. On the 8th, at St. Petersburg, aged 80, Admiral Constantine N. Possiet. Entered the Russian Navy at an early age; served in Japanese waters, 1855, and was wrecked; introduced improvements into naval gunnery ; Governor of the Grand Duke Alexis, 1858-74 ; Minister of Ways and Communications, 1874-88, and resigned after the accident to the imperial train at Borki, October, 1888. On the 10th, at London, aged 76, George Fosbery Lyster, Engineer-in-Chief of the Mersey Docks and Harbours, and under his direction upwards of two millions sterling had been expended in dock works at Liverpool and Birkenhead since his appointment in 1861. On the 12th, at Cairo, aged 60, Baron de Malortrl. Entered the Hanoverian Army, but resigned in order to accompany the Emperor Maximilian to Mexico. On his return to Europe he was actively engaged in supporting the claims of Hanover against Prussia, but after the establishment of the North German Confederation, 1866-7, was forced to leave Germany and resided chiefly in England and Egypt. Author