390 Miscellames. 



if read they must prove both mteresting and useful to the rising gen- 

 eration. 



28. Obituary. — Science has sustained a great loss in the death 

 of Mr. Stephen Elliott, of Charleston, S. C. Mr. Elliott's distin- 

 guished talents; his extensive acquirements in science; his exalted 

 private and public virtues; his great love of liberal knowledge and 

 liberal purposes, and the prevailing and happy influence which he had 

 acquired, made him an object of the greatest respect and admiration, 

 and will cause him to be long regretted by the nation as well as by 

 his own state. He received his education in Yale College, of which 

 institution he was a graduate in 1791. We look for a full account of 

 his life, labors and character, from some one of his eminent friends 

 and associates in Charleston. 



29. Correction. — On page 143, Vol. XVII, an obvious error 

 was committed in giving the inclination of k on P. The accom- 

 panying measurements show that this angle cannot be 90°, as there 

 stated. Unfortunately, the manuscript not having been preserved, 

 and the author being unprovided with specimens for obtaining it 

 anew, it is impossible to give it, at present, from actual measurement. 



30. Collections of JVeiv England Rocks with their imbedded min- 

 erals, for sale. — Collections of the different series of New England 

 rocks, can be furnished in parcels of from one hundred and fifty to 

 three hundred pieces, according to the views of purchasers; — the 

 specimens being intended to illustrate the geology and mineralogy of 

 this section of tlie United States. They will be of a large size, neatly 

 trimmed, and accompanied with the requisite information concerning 

 their localities. The Editor of this Journal, may be the medium of 

 communications. 



FOREIGN. 



31. Transactions of the Society of Arts, Manufactures and 

 Commerce, London, Vol. XLVII. — This volume, the latest of this 

 most useful and respectable work, has been received ; and by the 

 good will of the Society towards the cause of useful knowledge 

 in this country, we have been favored with a complete set of these 

 transactions which, in substantial utility, are probably not equalled by 

 any similar work. The volumes are illustrated and adorned by nu- 

 merous beautiful plates, and every useful thing, from a pin to a ship 



