A64 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
OBITUARY. 
Antuony D. Stantey, Professor of Mathematics in Yale College, 
died on the 16th of March, aged 43 years. Mr. Stanley held the office 
of Tutor in Yale College from 1832 to 1836, when he was appointed 
Professor of Mathematics ; and after two years in Europe, he entered 
upon his new duties in 1838. From that period to 1849, he pursued 
the life of a faithful teacher and was besides untiring in his studies and 
investigations. His principal contribution to this Journal appeared in 
the third volume (1847). He published also an elementary ‘Treatise on 
Spherical Geometry and Trigonometry, and a volume of Logarithmic 
and other Mathematical Tables. The latter work was one of vast labor, 
as he undertook the thorough revision of existing tables; and in the 
course of it he detected several errors in the tables of Callet, Vega, 
Babbage and Shortrede. The work was printed with extreme care, an 
but two errors have yet been pointed out. A severe cold, taken in 1849, 
ended finally in settled consumption, from which he found but partial 
relief in a visit during 1850 to Egypt and Syria. After his return he 
resumed for a while his duties in college, but soon left them and retired 
to his home in East Hartford, where he died. Prof. Stanley was a man 
of deep devotion to his favorite pursuit, of great ability and accuracy in 
research, and of the highest moral worth. A natural diffidence and 
reserve led him to withhold from publication much that would have 
proved an honor to himself and of value to science. 
Von Bucu.—This eminent geologist died at Berlin, on the 4th of 
March, aged 79 years. The following is a letter from Humboldt to 
Sir R. I. Murchison, announcing his death, (Atheneum, No 1824). 
** That I should be destined—I, an old man of ei hty-three—to an- 
the 2d of March. 
“He and I were united by a friendship of sixty-three years,—a 
wae ewer: knew interruption. I found him in 1791, in 
