140 Scientific Intelligence. 
. The discovery of gold in this part of the Appalachian 
fields is due to the scientific attainments and perseverance of 
Freligh, M.D 7 
Dr. Torrey assayed a quantity of the quartz procured by himat 7 
the mine, it being “a fair average of the lode,” and amounting to — 
several hundred pbids: and states as his results, that o ae Ff 
says the average yield of gold per ton of ore (2000 tbs. ) was $118.49, 
In no case was the proportion of gold less than $100 per ton. , 
biti: 
Il, BOTANY. 
1. Botanical Necrology des 1868.—The most cea a 
naa — the list is mS ; 
ever, upon the duties of his profession, his taste for natural history — 
having been vveed developed under the lectures of Prof. Jamesoo — 
and of Mr. Stewart,—the latter a well-known teacher of botan at t 
raor \ ; 
est botanical paper, upon some Brazilian Mosses, was written | 
French and published in a journal at Paris, in 1823, In 1826 and | j 
1827 he contributed to the Edinburgh New Philosophical J ournal 
a aly narrative of a botanical tour to = South of France and 7 
the Pyrenees. He resided for some time at Montpellier, and ae | 
Paris, examining the principal herbaria thaie, also that of DeCai — 
dolle at Geneva, and in 1828 the herbaria at t St. Petersburgh. 4 
nn he married and established himself with his collections at At 
ny and tthe _ 
tions edited by Sir William, oe cia a adias art in the a o 
of Beechey’s Voyage; in connection _—_ Dr. lr par he brought ) 
out the first yolume of the Prodromus re Peninsule Indie Orie 
talis; and made numerous contributions to various pe 
