450 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
In 1845, Mr. Strickland was married to the second daughter of Sir 
William Jardine, Bart. :—both of whom, with Mr. Strickland’s father 
and mother, survive to lament his premature loss. 
In the above: brief sketch we have spoken only of Mr. Strickland’s 
scientific career, but he had moral qualities that endeared him to all 
who knew him. Few came in contact with him who did not recognize 
in him a conscientious, amiable, and excellent man. In him Oxford has 
lost a Professor whom she could ill afford to part with at this time. To 
him, they who hoped for the wider culture of natural science at Oxford 
looked as to one who had the power and the ability to take the lead. 
The scientific societies have lost in him a member who was unwearied 
in his assiduity to carry out their objects in all their purity. His means 
made him independent of his labors ;~-and all recognized in his exer- 
tions shes love of science and its objects which constitutes the true phi- 
losopher.—Athen., 1853, pp. 1094, 1125. 
18. ge eo Report of the Suprinfendan of the Coast Survey; 
showing the Progress of that work during the year ending November, 
51.—We allude again to this Rapes on the Coast Survey under 
Prof Bache, to express our pleasure in the improved style in which it 
has been issued. It is a document of great value, in a scientific point 
of view, and deserves good paper, types rand bindin , and these it now 
has. The valuable series of plates and sketches, instead of being 
folded into the octavo report make a 4to volum si sat themselves, which 
is convenient both for use and for their preserva 
Twentieth Annual Report of the rot ae Polytechnic 
sorietre 1852. 108 pp., with tables. Falmouth.—-Contains catalogues 
of plants and animals found at Falmouth, by W. P. Cocks, Esq. 5 e 
m 
ments in the mode of preparation of the latter, by Mr. H. M. Stoker. 
20. The Book of Nature ; an elementary introduction to the sciences 
of Physics, Astronomy, Chemistry, Mineralogy: Geology, Botany, 
Zoology and Ebysiology. ; by Friepricn Scuorpter, Ph. D., Prof. Nat. 
ci., at Worms, etc. Ist Amer. Edit. with a sisey. and ee ad- 
, ) . 
delphia, 1853 ; Blanchard and Lea.—This volume, as its ie shows, 
covers nearly all the sciences, and ee a vast amount of inform- 
ation adapted for instruction. No other work that we have seen pre- 
sents the reader with so wide a mnge of Ae pti knowledge, with 
so full illustrations, at so che 
21. The Ethnographical pam pee bl by Epwin Morais, Esq- 
Vol. 1. The Native Races of the Indian Archipelago, Papuans; by 
Georce Wixnsor is M.R.A.S. 240 pp. 8vo. London, 1853, B 
and ‘Australia. In this volume he treats of the Papuans 0 of ie 
Indian Islands, describing their features, tribes, 
| conditions, and implements, and various incidents in their history 
