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whence he sent the extensive zodlogical collections which adorn 
the Museum of Yale College. These collections are no doubt the 
largest that have ever been made in the Gulf of California, and 
when fully described will add greatly to the knowledge of that 
rich fauna. He was obliged to leave La Paz last t December, on 
account of failing health and the excessive heat, but after his 
arrival in San Frane cisco, was still min of the interests of 
science, and Joni lon to send valuable collections as often as he 
Probe roughly temperate, Christian man, who 
hen done much in his austeasie way, to ween science. His collec- 
tions will be an enduring monument to his memory. 
r. W. A. Minter, the author of “ Miller’s 5 Bleiients of Chem 
istry,” and of various memoirs on chemical subjects published 
in te Philosophical Transactions and ae died at Liver- 
pool, of apoplexy, on the 30th of Septem He 
at Ipswich in December, athe In 1861 he was a eleotid Treasurer 
of the Royal Society. He o cupied for some years the office of 
President of the Chemical Sodiety. and was one of the assayers to 
the ny al Mint. 
. Marraetssen, a chemist of high promise, and one of the 
sean of ths "Tniversity of London, died recently, in his 39th 
year. 
VI. MISCELLANEOUS BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
1. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and 
ig sce Vol. Il, Part I. New Haven, August, 1870. 210 pp. 8vo, 
1 i is i 
in 1867, by Sidney L Smith; On the Geology of the New Haven 
Region, with special 5 cae to the origin of some of its topo- 
graphical features, by James D. Dana; Notes on American Crus- 
tacea, No. 1, Ooypodoidea, by 8. § Smith; On some alleged 
specimens of Indian Onomato wia, by J. H. Trumbull; On the 
Molluscan fauna of the later Tertiary of Peru, by E. T. Nelson. 
Several of these papers have already been noticed when the 
its relations to that of the existing faune of the same coast. and 
of the Atlantic coast, thus aiding in solving the question of a 
ection, more o r less ancient, between the two oceans across 
Ne Isthmus. In this aper numerous new §) are described 
