396 MISCELLANEOUS. . 



Las become intimately acquainted with great numbers of young- 

 men, then students, but now engaged in professional and other 

 avocations. Dr. Emmons was an early graduate of Williams 

 College, and commenced life as a physician. His tastes, however, 

 almost immediately led him into the domain of science, more es- 

 pecially in that department known as Natural History. He was 

 early elected professor of Natural History in Williams College. 

 So high a reputation had he acquired, that when the Geological 

 Survey of this State was undertaken, he was selected as one to 

 whom in part its Geological, and wholly its Agricultural depart- 

 ment would be the most safely confided. How well and thorough- 

 ly his work was done is attested by his valuable reports on Geo- 

 logy and Agriculture, which have forever connected his name 

 with the growth of Science and the development of the physical 

 resources of this State. He was also for a long time the editor 

 of an agricultural journal, and the author of a valuable work on 

 American Geology. For the last few years he has been engaged 

 in a Geological survey of North Carolina, and w r as thus engaged 

 at the time of his death. , 



" Dr. Emmons exhibits a life long devotion to Science. Patient, 

 persevering, cautious in his facts, rigid in his deductions, he has 

 always carried into all the departments of Science he has investi- 

 gated a strong common sense, wdiich has essentially influenced his 

 conclusions. Among the scientific men of this country he held a 

 high rank. Although disagreeing with many of them on some 

 important points in Geology, especially the Taconic system, of 

 which he was the originator and supporter, yet more recent in- 

 vestigations have tended to show his sagacity and correctness. 

 His name will long live in the scientific annals of this country. — 

 Albany Journal, Nov. 6, 1863. 



DEATH OF PROF. EILHARD MITSOHERLICH. 

 Prof. Mitscherlich has. recently died at Berlin at the age of 

 sixty-nine. He had long been known as one of the ablest philo- 

 sophical chemists of the day, and the e stimation in which he was 

 held was exemplified by the numbers who attended his classes in 

 the University of Berlin, and the Friederich-Wilhelm's-Institut in 

 in that city. The mere titles of his writings would occupy near- 

 ly two columns of this journal ; they embrace a wide range in 

 chemical science, and may be found in the publications of the 



