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haustion, and died on the 19th of January.——V. Y. Daily Times, Feb. 1, 
We have from time to time had occasion to notice the publications 
of Prof. Adams ; and only in our last number we annou 
Pearance of his last great work, on the Mollusks of Panama, and the 
labors in which he was engaged in the neighboring seas. Some of the 
Tesults of his investigations are embodied in the Paper in the preceding 
tumber (vol. xiv, p. 389) on the Geographical Distribution of Mollusca, 
be Mr. T. Bland. 
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Sears C. Walker was born at Wilmington, Mass., on the f 
Mare ©; graduated at Harvard University in 1825; taught a pri- 
Yale school in Philadelphia for seyeral years ; or a considerable 
Period actuary in the Pennsylvania Life Insurance Company ; a short 
time attached to the National Observatory, but for several years prece- 
ding his death was one of the assistants of the U. S. Coast Survey. 
Asa child, his precociousness was the wonder of the village. At 
College, he was remarkable for his aptness in acquiring languages, 
Afierwards he became an enthusiastic devotee of science e are 
chives of the American Philosophical Society, Franklin Institute, 
Smithsonian Institution, and other learned societies here and in Europe 
all attest a zeal for scientific research, which has at last resulted in his 
tdom. For the last three or four years, apart from his ng wed 
480 his brain gave way, and he was for sever 
asylum. In Ocoke ra he was thought to be so far recovered as to 
; a sec ly. : 
Tn the circles of ee both here and abroad, his death will be 
ply elt; for he had with them an extensive correspondence and & 
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