Died Of Appendicitis

DIED OF APPENDICITIS

Miss Fanny Langden, Of The Zoological Department

Miss Fanny E. Langdon, instructor in zoology in the University of Michigan, died at her apartments, 604 E. Jefferson st., Saturday night of appendicitis. She had been sick but a week.

The deceased was one of the brightest woman scientists in the country. She came here in 1891 and commenced to make botany and zoology her special studies. While an undergraduate she published a zoological paper that is recognized as an authority both in this country and in Europe. She took her degree of bachelor of science in 1895 and a year later the Master's degree was given her. Her thesis on "The development of the flower and flower bud of milk weeds" was a thorough and original investigation, and the proof sheets for the publication of the same were being read when her fatal illness came on. She was instructor in botany in the university for two years and was just entering her second year as instructor in zoology.

"She was one of the most promising woman workers in the United States and none excelled her in comparison with years of experience," said Prof. Reighard.

Her mother reached here Sunday morning too late to see her daughter alive.

There are over 100,000 embalmed specimens of birds, mammals, reptiles and fishes in this country, the bulk of which were embalmed withln eight years.

The British museum has presented 30,000 documents relating to the French revolution, of which it had duplicates, to the French National library in Paris.

China drew the largest check on the Bank of England of which the bank has any record in settlement of the Japanese Indemnity. It was for L11,008,857 16s 9d.