294 Miscellaneous Bibliography. 
College the sum of thirty thousand dollars to endow the sbi: 
ship of Natural History, and two thousand dollars to complete hi 
cabinet of North ee Birds. 
Mr. A. H. Hatray, of Antrim, Ireland, an entomologist of dis- 
tinction died on the 13th of J uly, near Lucea, Italy. He gradua- 
ted at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1822, at the age — 15, and five 
years afterwards as a gold medalist. — Nature, July 21 
VI. MISCELLANEOUS BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
e Andes and the Amazon, or across the —— of 
South Seuecion ; by James Orton, Prof. Nat. Hist. in Vassar 
Coll., Poughkeepsie. 356 pp. 12mo, New York, 18 0. ~( aie 
& Brothers). —Prof. Orton made his journey through South Amer- 
aiation, with Mess eV s and A. Bushnell cf Williams 
llege, ‘and othe course Som Paitay Peru, was by Guaya- 
ui o, and shana over the mountains to penned thence 
andscapes and tropical productions. It contains a map of the part 
of South America from the Pacific to the Atlantic in the latitudes 
of the Amazon and its tributaries, which appears to have been pre- 
pared with care, and also sev eral excellent woodcuts of epee 
etc. The party had not the pce or instruments for extended phys- 
ical investigations. Some of the observations of Prof. Orton have 
appeared in this Journal (vol. xlvii). Specimens were collected in 
zoology an any, and some of fossils, and these have been put 
the ha of different naturalists for description 0 
the geological facts we observe the wy at of tertiary fossils at 
Pebas, on t azon, in long. 7 height of 345 sg 
2. The Caerioet3 History of the Six Days of Creation; by 
ee Putin, C.E, 96 pp. 12mo. New York, 1870.—This work is 
not, fetal its title seems to impl y, a discussion by a chemist of the 
emical history of the earth’s genesis. It treats Page of the 
in the ma ee those that have been presented ie Prof. Guyot, 
and ~T i read. with prof, T There are ae ideas peculiar to the 
the ashes of the great combustion;” that the “evening” of the 
“fifth day” resulted from the separation of Venus from the sun 
