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WE regret to have to record the death of the eminent American physicist, Prof. Elias Loomis. He was born at Wellington, Connecticut, in 1811, and was educated at Yale College, where he acted for some time as tutor. He was successively Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Western Reserve College, Ohio; Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of the City of New York; and Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy in Yale College. The latter appointment he received in 1860, and he held it until his death. Prof. Loomis was the author of more than 100 scientific treatises. Among his works was a series of text-books on mathematics, natural philosophy, astronomy, and meteorology. Of this series more than 500,000 copies were sold. During the last twenty-five years of his life he devoted himself chiefly to original research, and gave much time and energy to the preparation of a full account of the principles of meteorology. He was a member of various American and European scientific Societies.