294 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
JAMES eres Forsus.—The Scotch physicist, . ames D. Forbes, 
died at Clifton on the 31st of December, in the 60th year of his 
age. Ill-health had led him to retire, a few ples before his 
death, from the ee of the United Colleges of St. Salva- 
dor and ‘St. Leonard, at St. Andrews. He was educated in the 
wide reputation. 
rR. Hornes.—Dr. Moriz Hoérnes, director of the Austrian Impe- 
rial Mineralogical Cabinet, died at Vie enna, Noy. 4th, 1868, aged 
is well kn i 
come of the museum was cut down, he supplied from his own nat- 
row means what was bs ae promote the increase of the col 
lection, He was a man of most genial manners, and noble, ear- 
nest scientific = te his sis death in the prime of life, is @ 
ss to scien 
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