Ruschenberger.] 1ZU [Nov. C, 



tional, literary and political subjects, and valuable information 

 from foreign journals."* 



His brother William contributed to it a series of short articles 

 to explain the formation of dew. 



When the editor resigned his professorship in the college at 

 the end of the year, the publication of the magazine ceased. 



He accompanied R. Dale Owen to England, in 1831, and 

 enrolled himself a student of chemistry in the laboratory of 

 Dr. Edward Turner, and attended the lectures of De la Beche, 

 on geology, and of other teachers of science in London. He 

 returned to Philadelphia in the summer of 1838. The liberal 

 assistance of his brother William placed the opportunity of this 

 course of study in Europe within his reach. 



In the winter of 1833-34 he delivered a course of lectures on 

 geologjr, in the hall of the Franklin Institute, of which he be- 

 came a member on the nomination of bis friend Alexander Dal- 

 las Bache, in January, 1834. From Januaiy, 183S, till Decem- 

 ber, 1843, he was a member of the Board of Managers and 

 served on several standing committees. His resignation from 

 the Institute was accepted March 16, 1848. 



The University of Pennsylvania conferred upon him the de- 

 gree of Master of Arts in 1834, and elected him Professor of 

 Geologj' and Mineralogy the next year. From 1835 until 1846, 

 when he resigned, he gave instruction on the subject, and pub- 

 lished " A Guide to a Course of Lectures on Geology, delivered 

 in the University of Pennsylvania." 8vo, pp. 48. 



In his twenty-seventh year he was chosen, January 2, 1835, a 

 member of the American Philosophical Societ} r ,f and in Novem- 

 ber he was elected a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences 

 of Philadelphia, and served on its Publication Committee from 

 December, 1835, to December, 1836. 



The Legislature of the State appointed him, April 21, 1835, 

 to make a geological and mineralogical survey of New Jersej'. 

 His first report (8vo, pp. 175) was made February 12, 1836, 



* A sketch of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Penna., including the list of Trustees 

 and Faculty from the foundation, and a more particular account of the .Scien- 

 tific Department. By Charles F. Ilimes, Ph.D., Professor of Natural Science. 

 Illustrated by engravings and by photographs executed in the laboratory. 

 12mo, pp. 153. Lane S. Hart, Harrisburg, 1879. 



tDuring 1836-37 he was frequently at the meetings and served on several 

 Bpecial committees. 



