144 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
out in a tub of cold water, they will be found to be alive and active, 
I once took some pains to corroborate this fact by inquiry, and found It 
to be well sustained by evidence though my eyes have not seen it. | 
fi same fact sustained in the case of the buffalo fish taken from 
the Rock river at this place. 
15. Cavendish Society.—-The Cavendish Society, is a voluntary 
16. University of Mississippi.—Oscar M. Lieser, son of Dr. Frat 
crs Lieser of the University of South Carolina, was in July last elected 
OBITUARY. 
Ricuarp Cowtine Taytor died on Sunday morning, the 26th of 
Oct., at his residence in Philadelphia, in his 62d year, after a Vet) 
short illness. 
_ The following are extracts from a notice of Mr. Taylor by Mr. 
Isaac Lea, published in the Proceedings of the Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad» 
for October, 1851. 
ne The first work of importance which he published, was one on the 
' Monastic remains of the county in which his father lived as a county 
gentleman, and on 
on whose pro h 
ruin. It was this probably that induced Mr. Taylor first to turn his 
so perfect as to require : 
In his profession, he had the ” 
complete education, and he 
* At a public sale his private copy, with some notes, brought £30. 
