292 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
have excited more general attention, or attracted a greater number 
students anxious to listen to the wisdom which fell from his lips. .He 
ical College. 
From what we know of his habits, we trust that he has left behind 
ent and merit, and many are now on the stage of life who look back 
with feelings of profound gratitude to the generous sympathy and many 
indnesses he showed them in their days of trial. He was not only @ 
man of high talent, but he was also one of the most painstaking and 
laborious students that we have ever known. His success is mainly !0 
be attributed to his unswerving diligence. He was never satisfied as 
long as he knew that he was ignorant of any of the phases of a 
ee His example in this respect is valuable and ought to be followed 
The facts in the above notice are somewhat abridged from an article 
published in a Cincinnati paper, and copied into the Louisville Weekly 
Journal, We believe them not to be exaggerated. , 
D e was perhaps the first writer who called the attentio of 
geologists to the drift and boulders in the vicinity of Cincinnati, and 
his little volume, in which the facts are contained, may still be read 
with advantage. B, S. SBoy 
ror. C. B, Apams.—The steamer Perel, which arrived at New To 
from St. Thomas, W. I., on Saturday, brought the sad intelligence 7 
of Vermont, and his reports in that capacity have been saa ia 
a valuable elementary work upo logy ee 
nd enriched 
pecies» Zoe 
a few years past his attention had become particularly directed wae a 
ological Geography, a field in which he saw that a rich ba! 1 
scientific truth was yet to be gathered. The last volume of the it of 
of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York, contains parte in 
is sojourn for a few weeks at Panama, in the Winter of 160° 1 
the form of a treatise upon the Zoological Province of Panamt distti- 
catalogue of its mollusks, and full notes upon their geographical - 
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