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WE regret to have to announce the death of Dr. F. Brügge-mann. Dr. Brüggeman was a native of Bremen and studied at Jena, where he was for several years assistant to Prof. Haeckel. His earliest publications were on entomological subjects, but later he published an account of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Bremen. He was especially interested in ornithology, and amongst other papers on this subject published two on the Birds of South-Eastern and Central Borneo (Abhand. d. naturw. Vereins zu Bremen, Bd. v. u. vi.). On the recommendation of Prof. Haeckel, Dr. Brüggemann was engaged last year by Dr. Günther to arrange and catalogue the collection of corals in the British Museum. Whilst in the midst of this undertaking he died suddenly, at his lodgings on the night of Satin-day last of hæmorrhage from the lungs. He had already named 1,500 species of corals in the collection, and had published two papers on undescribed forms in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. He had in hand a revised list of all species of recent corals hitherto described, which was in an advanced state and which he had intended to have published. He was of an extremely amiable disposition and his loss is deeply regretted in London by the staff of the British Museum and other naturalists with whom he was acquainted. He was under thirty years of age at the time of his death.