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DEATH OF PROF. S. S. HALDEMAN. 
Prof. S. S. Haldeman, A. M., the distinguished scientist, a Professor in 
Pennsylvania University, died at his home at Chickies, Lancaster county, Pa., 
September roth. He was born near Columbia, Pa., in 1812, and pursued his 
studies at Dickinson College until 1830. In 1836 he was chosen an assistant in 
the New Jersey Geological Survey, and held the same office in the ensuing year 
in the Pennsylvania Geological Survey. While engaged in this capacity there he 
discovered the oldest fossil known at that time, viz.: Scalithus incaris. In 1851 
‘he was chosen to the chair of natural history in the University of Pennsylvania 
and held it till 1855, when he entered upon the duties of corresponding professor- 
ship in Delaware College, and later in the same year became Professor of Geology 
and Chemistry at the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania. At the time of his 
death and for many years before he was the Professor of Comparative Philology 
in the University of Pennsylvania, and attended and took a prominent part in the 
recent meeting of the American Philological Association of Philadelphia. He 
was the author of numerous articles on conchology, entomology and palzon- 
tology, and among his principal papers was his Analytic Ornithological Mono- 
graph of the Fresh Water Univalve Mollusca, published in 1840 and 1845; Mon- 
ography du Genre Leploris, published in Paris in 1847, and papers on Linguistic 
Ethnology, 1849; Zodlogy of the Invertebrate Antaals, New York, 1839, and 
on the Relations of the English and Chinese Languages, published in 1856. 
His work entitled Analytic Orthography, which consists of investigations into 
the philosophy of language, obtained for him in England the highest Trevellyan 
prize in 1858, over eighteen competitors. 
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FRESHET OF JULY 1880 IN THE MISSOURI RIVER. 
The high water of July 1880, was the largest body or accumulation of rain- 
water in the river at any one time in the last twenty-seven years, and yet in the 
counties of Lincoln and St. Charles it did not reach the ordinary high banks of 
the river by thirty inches, or the height of the high water of 1876 by twenty-eight 
“inches. , 
Many were of the opinion that the river did not have capacity to hold the 
floods coming down, even before it commenced raining between the Des Moines 
and Missouri Valleys, but when the series in near succession, of unusual heavy 
rains came at maximum height of flood, the general opinion was that the river 
‘would be higher than in the last three decades. 
