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joy the pleasure of his acquaintance he is the exemplar of 

 all that is excellent for his personal qualities. Occupying, as 

 he has for many years, the position of co-editor of the Amer- 

 ican Journal of Science, the leading organ of scientific inves- 

 tigators in the United States, he has been brought into com- 

 munication with more than one generation of workers, and 

 inspires all with the same feeling of regard and affection. 



It is, therefore, with no little gratification that his friends 

 and admirers have seen the announcement that the Wollaston 

 Gold Medal, in charge of the Geological Society of London, 

 has just been conferred upon him; and the remarks made by 

 the president, Mr. Prestwich, in transmitting the medal, can 

 not be considered as exaggerated when he says that Profess- 

 or Dana enjoys the rare honor of having prosecuted original 

 investigations in such totally dissimilar departments of sci- 

 ence as zoology and mineralogy, and as having taken rank 

 with the first specialists in both departments his principal 

 works in the one being contained in several huge volumes, 

 treating of the Crustacea and corals, published in the reports 

 of the United States exploring expedition, and in the other 

 consisting of his treatise on mineralogy, which has gone 

 through several editions. His manual on geology, which, 

 perhaps, occupies an intermediate position between the two 

 divisions of his labors, is equally excellent, and is a standard 

 text-book throughout the world. 



EETUEN OF DE. BROWN-SEQUAED TO THE UNITED STATES. 



Dr. Brown-Sequard, the eminent physiologist, has resigned 

 the chair of Comparative and Experimental Pathology in the 

 Faculty of Medicine in Paris, which he has occupied for sev- 

 eral years. It is understood that this is preliminary to es- 

 tablishing his permanent residence in Boston. 



