320 Miscellaneous. 



Prof. TuoMEY. — Prof. M. Tuomey died at Tuscaloosa on tlie 

 30th of March last. He had been one of the active geologists of 

 the Southern States, and among them had taken the lead through 

 his researches and publications. In 1844 he was put in charge 

 of the Geological Survey of South Carolina, and four years after- 

 ward published his final Eeport in a large quarto volume. The 

 Report treats of the various crystalline rocks and their metallifer- 

 ous veins or ores, and dwells at length on the Cretaceous and 

 Tertiary beds which had been with him more special subjects of 

 study. In his survey, he brought out many facts of prominent 

 interest, illustrating important principles in the geology of the 

 continent and the history of seashore deposits. 



The state of South Carolina is remarkable geologically for con- 

 taining nothing of the carboniferous formation (unless metamor- 

 phosed ;)excepting the middle secondary red sandstone, which he 

 traced from North Carolina to a distance of four or five miles into 

 South Carolina where it is associated with trap dykes as in the 

 Connecticut valley, there are no stratified rocks, yet observed bet- 

 ween the metamorphic bed and the Cretaceous. 



Subsequently, Prof. Tuomey was appointed to the Chair of 

 Geology of the university of Alabama at Tuscaloosa and to the 

 charge of the Geological Survey of that State, which positions he 

 held when he died. He has been actively engaged in his explo. 

 rations during the year past, and both the State and the Univer- 

 sity have experienced a great loss in his decease. In connection 

 with Dr. F. S. Holmes he has had in hand the publication of a 

 splendid work on the Fossils of South Carolina, Avhich has not 

 been surpassed in the country for the beauty of its palseonto 

 logical illustrations. Geological science is greatly indebted to 

 Prof. Tuomey's zeal and fidelity, and has occasion for mourning 

 that his labors have ceased. — " Sillimans JournalP 



Dr. Scoresby, the veteran of Artie enterprise, died at Torquay, 

 England, on the 21st of March last, after a lingering illness. 



