282 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
far forth as there was wane there in the Tertiary B someted The hills 
of fossilized wood foun M’Clure and his co ions in Banks 
Land (lat. 74° 27’ N) 2 are nto damncinn which should not 
astonish us; they only confirm the evidence as to the original veg- 
etation of the polar regions which we have derived from o 
ure 
He then selects Sequoia Langsdorfii, the most abundant of the 
trees at Atanekerdluk, and proceeds to investigate the conclusions 
as to climate deducible from the fact of its existence in Greenland. 
i t 
existence it requires a summer temperature of 60° ve ts fruit re- 
quires a temperature of 65° F, for ripening. The 
ture must not fall below 31° F., and that of the halle year must 
¥ at least 50° F, Acco ccordingly we may consider the isothermal 
_ as its northern limit. we may then i as the n 
ern temperature of the Sequoia Langsdorffii, and 50° F. a s the 
absolute minimum of temperature — which vd vopetatiils of 
uk could have existed the 
The present annual temperature of t the locality is about 20° F. 
Dove gives the normal temperature of the latitude (70° N.) at 16°F, 
I think these facts are convincing and the more so as they are 
not insulated, but confirmed by the evidence derivable from the 
Miocene Flora of Iceland, Spitzbergen, and Northern Canada. 
These conclusions, eg So ‘only a in the grand chain of evi- 
« 
the 
phenomena in a satisfactory manner. We must only admit that 
we are face to face with a problem, whose sabetioalt in all probability 
must be attempted and, we doubt “hot, completed by the astron- 
omer, 
OBITU. 
_ Creistran Gorrien F born at Magdeburg, 
in Prussia on the 8th of Sf ey 1805, 9 Exon, on the sat nef July, 
1866, at Tremont near New York. A’ om of singular beauty and 
simplicity of sharacter, an artist and a scientist, he well brags 
city. : The stern will of his father Med him to learn the 
of a carpenter, but he devoted himse without his father’s knowl- 
prize. no longer 
epposed the youth wishes; he entered the the Royal School of Arts in 
deburg, and at the conclusion of his studies, bore off the most 
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