96 Miscellaneous. 
rite of great size and brilliancy which had burst in the town of — 
Western, Connecticut; and afterwards assisted Dr. Ware in his 
experiments with the oxy-hydrogen blowpipe, to which he gave the 
name of ‘compound blowpipe,’ by which it is commonly known. It 
1818, Professor Silliman founded the ‘ American Journal of Science 
and Arts,’ now known all over the world as < Silliman’s Journal.’ 
The United States possessed, some forty-six years ago, but one single 
scientific periodical, the ‘Journal of Mineralogy,’ and that was but 
short-lived. On its extinction, Professor Silliman, for the honour 
of his country, threw himself into the breach, and published in 1818 
the first number of the Journal which now bears his name. His 
remark was—we quote from ‘ Tribner’s Bibliographical Guide to 
. American Literature ’—‘I feel that this work will absorb my whole 
life.’ And he was not mistaken. .. . ‘An ardent promoter of science, 
he continued to give lectures long after he had resigned his profes- 
sorship. He was aman of simple tastes, and reached a good old age 
with mind and body both in full activity. To the very last, we read, 
he took a deep interest in the progress of science, humanity, and free- 
dom all over the world. — The Reader, Dec. 17, 1864. Prof. Silliman, 
we may add, was a fine, frank, friendly man; about 5 ft. 10 in. in 
height, rather spare in body, with oval-longish face and well-formed 
features, shrewd, open, and intelligent in expression. His quiet 
engaging manners, his delight in obliging, and his multifarious 
knowledge, rendered him widely popular. He was a Foreign Mem- 
ber of the Geological Society of London. 
WE also notice with regret the death of Monsieur Nicoias RoBERT 
Bovcuarp, who expired at Boulogne-sur-Mer in France, on the 
22nd of November, 1864, aged 68. M. Bouchard was distinguished 
for his great acquirements in the sciences of Malacology and Palz- 
ontology. During the year 1833-34, he published several valu- 
able memoirs relating to the Mollusca and Crustacea living on 
or near the shores of the Boulonnais. In 1838 he commenced his 
geological and palzontological researches; and at the period of his 
death had assembled a most remarkable and valuable collection of 
fossils, and especially of those that occur in the various geological 
formations of the Department of the Pas-de-Calais. In his memoir on 
the Devonian rocks and fossils of the Boulonnais, published in the 
‘Bulletin dela Soe. Géol. de France’ for 1840, Sir R. Murchison does 
not fail to refer to M. Bouchard’s researches, and adds, that they 
have materially tended to assist him in arriving at a positive deter- 
mination of the true age of the Devonian rocks of that part of France. 
M. Bouchard had also devoted many years to the study of the Bra- 
chiopoda, upon which subject he published several papers. It is to 
him we are indebted for the establishment of the genus Davidsonia. 
His last memoir bears for title, ‘ Observations sur les Hélices Saxi- 
caves du Boulonnais;’ it will be found in the sixteenth volume of 
the ‘ Annales des Sciences Naturelles’ of Paris. 
During many years M. Bouchard was one of the directors of the 
Museum of Boulogne-sur-Mer, and has always been ready to assist 
others, and to impart the knowledge he had himself acquired after 
forty years of the most persevering researches.—T. D. 
