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his previous gift to the Peabody Institute in his native town of Dan- 
vers, Mass. Each of these institutions will contain an extensive a 
and annually provide several courses of free lectures on scientific and 
abo 
literary subjects. Mr. Peabody has, moreover, just made a iouied of 
$25,000 to Phillips Academy, edenns Mass., to provide pio in the 
natural sciences and mathematics, and another of the amount to 
Kenyon College, Ohio, for a similar purpose. He has sine pacer given 
$20,000 to the library fund of the Maryland Historical rere and 
founded free na at Georgetown, Mass., and Thetford 
These munificent gifts, amounting in ail to nearly $1, ort 000, place 
the donor, ha so highly —— for his other noble charities, among 
the foremost benefactors of science, and cannot fail to exert a most bene- 
ficial influence upon the phiniieci’ interests of this country. 
OBITUARY, 
Gzorce W. FeatuerstonuavaH, the author of a penicnne Re on 
the Miscou and Red rivers, published by our government, i and 
originator and editor of Featherstonhaugh’s Geological J seals published 
in 1831, 1832 at Philadelphia, died at Havre on Sept. 28, in his eightieth 
year. He had been consul at Havre for nearly twenty years. 
VI. MISCELLANEOUS BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
sea, a subterranean geological map, or rather a series of maps, is formed 
on which the surfaces er the principal formations for each level is indiea- 
ted. To obtain these cu r. Delesse examined all the various local- 
ities, where it was siindaBhe to make a geological section,—especially the 
Paris. Startin ng Rot data thus obtained, the elevation of the points, 
aon. a A logical section was made, was aceurately determined by level- 
ing, and the operation repeated until a system of points was obtained 
sufficiently near together to admit of the tracing of horizontal curves in- 
