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tothe Academy by M. Stohiman. The cabinet of Meteorites at the 
Museum of Berlin contains meteorites from 97 localities, 33 of which 
are meteoric irons, and 64 meteoric stones. The whole 
ber of distinct meteoric irons according to Dr. Wm. S. Clarke now 
amounts to si 
OBITUARY. 
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medicine. His great work on the Diseases of the Valley of North 
America is the result of well-directed industry, and the most indefati- 
gable research. ‘The first volume only has yet been published. We 
his youth lived most vividly in h ; din his fervid descriptions, 
y in his memory, and in his ript 
they glowed in all their original beauty and freshness. He was always 
what rough professional experience, he often brought in 
anecdotes creditable to those who were his competitors for the public 
favor. His 
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things both late ond small, from the treatment of a hypochondriac 
lived there when it ittle village, and he lived to see it a great 
city, the * Queen pei on! It i not strange then that he loved 
‘he city consecrated to his heart by affliction, by adversity and by pros- 
Perity—the city in which he had met with both success and suffering— 
Where his affections had ripened, flourished and decayed—where the 
FP full of reminiscences of gladness as well as of gloom—where 
had been for half a century, a period marked by events of 
the: ioe 
