296 Miscellaneous Fntelligence. 
responding in its physical characters and fossils to the upper shell bed 
of the Blue limestone of ~ mineral district, and that above to the 
nesian limestone. ‘The iron is argillaceous and mainly is 
lenticular ore (called also nial or shot ore). ‘The iron ore layer has a 
slaty structure. It is usually overlaid by a thin layer of a very dark 
blueish and hard compact ore, breaking with a conchoidal dipee sem 
e bed is one of great value, and of inexhaustible extent, and occ 
in a densely timbered country.—Rep. by Dr. J. G. Percival, dated 
Milwaukee, 1855. 
6. Clouds.—Photography has been used successfully in Paris in ta- 
king views of clouds. They have been obtained by Bertsch in hardly 
a quarter of a second ina test which leaves nothing to be desired. They 
are adapted to resolve, as M. Pouillet states, all the important questions 
relating to their form, distribution and height. . Pouillet measures 
the height by means of two photographic apparatuses, placed at a dis- 
tance from one another.—L’ Institut, No. 1118, June, 
VPo Beedle Scientific Association.—The first Bulletin of this So- 
ciety, for January and February of the current year has been issued, 
in a pamphlet of 14 pp., 8vo. It contains a translation by Mr. I. O. 
MerepitH of a paper by Mr. Desor on the Falls of Niagara. 
8. Ositvary.—WNotice of the late John Graem a —By the 
death of John G. Ellery, science has lost one of its most energetic and * 
indefatigable workers, who could ill be spared from his 1 favorite field of 
investigation. 
ied on the 2nd of June, 1855, at Gold Hill, Rowan Co., N. C., 
of one of those virulent pac incident to the climate He ha been 
engaged there for some months in a Geological Survey, having direct 
reference to the value ai Fiat economical mode of working the gold, 
silver, and copper ore of that region, and was just about to retura to 
New York, when he was prostrated by sickness. 
Mr. Ellery was educated in part at Hamilton College, N. Y., and af- 
terwards graduated at Amherst College, Mass. Havin chosen the de- 
partment of geology and mineralogy as the great study of his life, he 
turned his attention afier leaving college, to the study of chemistry, as 
the groundwork of his preparation, for the special object of his pursuit. 
His studies were completed at the Royal Academy of Mines, in Frei- 
berg, Saxony, where in an unusually short time, he not only familiar- 
ized himself with the principles * mineralogy and a but also 
mastered the practical departments of Mining and Metallurgy. He 
was well versed in the departiaeak of analytical chemistry, and under 
Plattner bade especially proficient in the use of the blowpipe. It was 
his ambition to fit himself for developing the van ks resources of his 
own country, and to this end his efforts were unwearied. His devo- 
tion to science as well as his true manliness of Shsiacie won for him 
— as well as here, the highest respect and confidence of his teach- 
His career since his return from Europe, though brief, had been 
fall of promise. He had already accumulated a fund of information with 
regard to the mineral resources of North Carolina that would soon have 
been made ee to the public, had “ not fallen thus prematurely. 
= who knew h » fee deep 
to theditbel ves and to the world: but belies ‘these, a wide circle of 
