Miscellaneous alata 447 
sur la —— botanique de 7 urope se sur la eke 
@ plateau central de la France, par M. @ Professeur & la Faculté 
des Sciences of Clermont.—This work, of which we have before spoken, 
he has there pursued his studies for thirty years. The 5th vol- 
ume treats of a large number of the Dicotyledonous families, from the 
Papaveraceze to - ING, including the Cruciferz, the Folygalemm 
the Malvacez, e s _ 
covered by Prof. Arrest, of Leipzic, F ebruary 29, 1857, ‘ite ia then 
being at 164 40m (Leips, m. t.) R. A. 320° 37, and its 99° Al, 
Arsdale at Newark, N. J., who describes it as bright and resembling an 
-— 
hi 
unresolved star-cluster. From rome of Feb. 22 and 25, Mr. Pa 
deduced the following elements. 
March 14°088 ae te 
Long. of a es 197° 04 
Wey > ae 
Tedliceataai: Puy . - 
og. perih. dist. : . : 9°82586 
~ Motion, : . retrograde. 
14. Osrrvary.—Prof. Jacob W. Bailey, ee our Jast number we had 
Point, and Prof. Toomer of “sible 
Prof. Bailey had long been failing under a relentless ¢o seca Ws 
finally died on Thursday, the tee of February og For many months 
his voice had been reduced to a whisper; yet his mind was active, and 
as late as our last number (March), we published a eontnbidioe to recta 
from him, as the result of his recent microscopic researches, Feeblene 
blowing ue honor well merited ; for few men in the land have 
er and more beneficial infieaiee on the science of the 
“ 
ee Bailey, ee a proifcsent also in chemistry, mineralogy, 2 
y, had 9 ane 5 ally devoted to microscopic research, er with tht 
rn "His first 
Pee ie of this chert has been mainly worked out by ne is 
communication to this Journal, ad published in 1837, and although 
ss of manipulation whicks fitted him for 
emical, it A eee ae +5 the use of grasshoppers’ an as a 
ent eit oe Gy 
