4A8 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
OBITUARY. 
lectures of Prof. Silliman the elder, and occupied himself in study and 
research in the Analytical Laboratory of B. Silliman, Jr. He had 
already acquired a thorough knowledge of the duties of a practical 
agriculturist in the management of his father’s estate. After two 
years spent in chemical and mineralogical investigations in New Haven, 
he sailed for Scotland, where he studied British agriculture and agri- 
cultural chemistry under Prof. James F. W: Johnston at Edinburgh. 
During this period of nearly two years his chief chemical investigation 
* Vol. iii, [2], 100, 318. + Ibid. [2], ii, 281, iv, 70. ¢ Ibid. [2], v, 22. 
