152 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
OBITUARY. 
Dr. T. Romeyn Beck.—We are pained ‘to announce the death of 
Dr. ‘T. Romeyn Beck, which occurred at Albany, N. Y., November 19, 
e was boro in Schenectady, N. Y., Aug. 11, 1791, and gradu- 
he was Shins Professor of the Institutes of Medicine in the College 
of Physicians and Surgeons of Western New York. In 1817 he was 
elite Priced of the Albany Academy, which place he held at 
the time of his death. He was also for many years ie i of the 
Board of Regents of the University of the State of New . He 
was — for a cultivation of the liberal sciences, bat is most 
widely k y his valuable treatise on Medical Jurispr a 
work whieh his passed “loath four editions in America, and four 
England, and has been translated into the German, 
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TRAY LkAVES FROM THE Book or Nature: by M. ga =~ pict of the Uni 
Shy of Virginia. 291 pp., 12mo. New York: . P. Put 
J. W. Dawson: Acadian Geology. An account of the Sontes gical Stractare and 
Mineral Resources of ay on Scotia, and portions “i a neighboring Provinces 
British America. Small 8vo. 1855. — urgh: Oliver & Boyd. 3 
W. S. Symonps : Old Stones; Notes o Sevens on ‘the Plutonic, Silurian and 
Devonian Rocks in the neighborhoo od «f Malv 12mo. Malvern, 1855. . 
AmevEe Burat: Geologie appliquée : Traité Sd gisement et de |’exploitation des 
minéraux utiles. 3d e dition, 2 vols. Paris. 
Picret: Traité de Paléontologie, 2d edition. oe volume, with plates in 4to. 
Paris: Bailliere. One more volume pack: the work. 
Report or tae Twenty-rourts Mrerine of the. 3 British J aargaie for the he 
held in Li September, lm don Moe 5 
: . Scr . VIL, No. X.—p. 
tions of ne e Inv ertebrata from the Pacific and Japan seas, W. Stim 
p. 395, Rdications « of i species of Fossil Fishes (Cretansens and Eocene) ; 
—No. XE. new ee ies 0 ve from —— LeCo 
Ona new Gelasim bak LeConte.—Remarks on two species of American 
J. LeCon 405, on Artificial formed Skulls from the kneel World; 
A. Rezius 410, Catalogu 
summer, val 
