448 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
along its Atlantic and Pacific borders and over its interior has passed 
under his microscope, and delighted him with many beautiful forms of 
life which had never before greeted a human eye. An nd late ely, the ocean’s 
bottom in the Atlantic to a depth of 12000 feet, and about the North 
Pacific to 16000 feet, has developed wonderful facts before his ree 
tions. Prof. Bailey has also done a vast deal towards raising the 
and his influence. His scale for oe slides by which the positions 
oie love as well as pe a ig 
Prof. Tcomey.—Prof. M. Tuomey died at Tuscaloosa on the 30th of 
Cretaceous and Tertiary pee which had been with him more special 
subjects of study. In his survey, he brought out many facts of prow: 
nent interest, illustrating Chores principles in the geology of the con 
tinent and the history of seashore deposits. 
The state of South Carolina is remarkable geologically for containing 
nothing of the carboniferous formation (unless metamorph« ; except- 
ing the middle secondary red sandstone, which he traced from North 
Carolina to a distance of four o or five miles into South Carolina where it 
is associated with trap dykes as in the Connecticut valley, there are no 
oa rocks, yet observed, between the — c beds and the 
retac 
not Seen ea in the country for the beauty of its pian 
logical illustrations. Geological science is greatly indebted to Prof 
"gach s zeal and fidelity, and has occasion for diene rics that his labors 
__ Dr. Scorzspy, the veteran of Arctic. enterprise, died at Torquay, Eng- 
a on rg 21st of March last, after a lingering illness. 
a New Granada: Twenty ra in the Andes ; by Isaac F. Hor 
Tox, Professor of isan." Now atural History in Middlebury College. 
rs : é vow. a bopkeal tue els, we 
