216 Miscellanies. 



spent the last twenty five years of his life in this country. He was 

 well known as an active mineralogist. He visited many of the most 

 important American localities of minerals, and by his activity in 

 collecting and exchanging minerals, both in this country and in Eu- 

 rope, as well as by his valuable papers in this Journal and in other 

 publications, he contributed to promote the progress of science, and 

 especially of Mineralogy, towards which he ever manifested a de- 

 cided and warm interest. Dr. Meade left a valuable and extensive 

 collection of minerals and fossils at Newburgh. 



Dr. Meade had occupied himself, during some of his later years, 

 on the subject of artificial mineral water, and especially in preparing 

 powders to imitate those of the Congress spring at Saratoga,* and 

 in inventing and perfecting a magnesian aperient, which is, at the 

 same time, effervescent and grateful. These preparations, we are 

 persuaded, are of serious utility, and will be ofiered for sale to the 

 public. 



We have, more frequently than we could wish, the painful duty to 

 discharge, of naming departed coadjutors in our labors. 



The late Dr. Felix Pascalis was of this number. He was a na- 

 tive of France, and emigrated to this country during the stormy 

 times of the French Revolution. He died at New York, on the 22d 

 of July last, aged 72. 



We have not the materials nor the space to speak of him, except 

 as a man of an ardent and vigorous mind, enriched by large culti- 

 vation — active in promoting useful knowledge, and warm in his per- 

 sonal attachments. 



He was, for many years, an efficient and able editor of our earli- 

 est medical journal, in which cause he labored with the late eminent 

 Dr. S. L. Mitchill, of whom Dr. Pascalis gave a full and interest- 

 ing biographical and commemorative eulogy. 



Dr. Mitchill also contributed many valuable papers to this Jour- 

 nal, and will always be remembered with honor, as a very active 

 and efficient mover and cultivator of useful knowledge in this coun- 

 try. His large correspondence and extensive personal intercourse, 

 operated with great effect in exciting others to similar efforts. 



* Dr. Meade, many years ago, published a valuable work on the waters of Balls- 

 ton and Saratoga, and on the use of mineral waters generally. The last paper 

 which he published in this Journal was on the same subject. 



