144 aos Bibliography. 
He went from Independence to the upper crossing of the Sasie with 
a small company of gentlemen from Georgia, Florida and Virginia. 
After which his company joined Indiana Compan y, No. 1, of which I 
on the Great Platte. There he separated from us and joined a compa 
commanded by Captain Boon, of Kentucky, which followed .the tra 
opened by Captain Hudspeth’s company, crossing the Sierra, near the 
head of Sacramento valley. The trials of this rugged route across 
fearful mountains and great deserts proved too much for the Doctor's 
constitution, and on reaching his destination in California, he was 
seized with typhoid fever, of which he died. He had collected during 
his j ae a large number of rare and interesting specimens, by whic 
had largely to the rich store of knowle edge e he had previously 
- gained. His loss. is as sad as it is premature, and he sleeps in peace 
beneath the towering pines which cluster on a sunny hill-side stretching 
ap from the bright waters of the — de las Plumas. He has deparied 
fell in the midst of his honorable pate of knowledge; and the earnest 
ak son alous unfolding of his natural and acquired gifts. Philadelphia 
owes to his memory “a PPR tribute of respect for his science, virtue, 
a‘, gers and ene You D. B. Wo 
VI. Brottocrarny.. 
= A oo on the Studies of the University of Conbridee ; by | 
m Sepewick,.M.A., F.R.S., Woodwardian Professor.and Fellow — 
of Trinity Saline 5th edition, with additions and a Preliminary Dis- 
sertation. eccexlii, and 322 pages, 8vo. London: 1850. J. W. Par- 
ker.—This admirable discourse, by Prof. et a occupies but 
pages out of the 760 that constitute hel volume. The additions in 
the important subject of which it treats. The Seared author, @p- 
preciating the truths and spirit of religion as well as of science, ably 
day. 
a i ding the plausible 
which pervades the work. After rach spirited Se ‘alternately 
severe and playful, Prof. Sedgwick observes, page 
I can find, here and there, within The Vestiges, Sais almost 10 
match Oken’s Snail*—* the exalted symbol of mind slumberia deéply — 
within itself—the prophesying goddess sitting on a Aiport ee ou Nas 
ae lene re and foresight appear to be the thoughts of the Bivalv e. 
lusea ani ; 
“Gang oe “one believes:that he finds the prophesying goddess: sitting 
tripod. “W at majesty in the creeping er — i what 
ness, what timi me yet at the same time ai es 
is an exalted of published by slumbering dee eply. within “tee 
