Miscellaneous Intelligence. 14] 
1. National ‘baa of Science.—The next session a the Nationa} 
ee af Sciences will open at Washington on the 24th of January. 
8. n of lake-depressions,—This subject receives some important 
airatons accompanied with criticisms upon the ginpel theory of Prof. 
msay, in an article by Pro esley, in volume i 
Birmingham.—The best abstracts that have been published of the papers 
read at the recent meeting of the British Association are contained in the 
London gad periodicals, he Reader, numbers 142 to 150 inclusive 
(Sept. 9 to Nov. 11), and the Atheneum, numbers 1976 to 1981 (Sept, 
9, to Oct. 14), 
10, First Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students, and Pro- 
gramme of the Course of Instruction, of the School of the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology, 1865-6, 40 pp. 8vo. Boston, 1865.—This 
first Annual Catalogue gives assurance that the Institute of Thducsloen: 
established 3 Boston by the State of Massachusetts, under the direction 
of Prof, . Rogers, is in full and successful operation. The course 
of Seirciae as here presented is excellent. The corps of Professors is 
oe and keg Was i eae in the Teclish pose 
and Literature; Joun Henex, in Engineering; W. Watson, in 
Descriptive Birgit and Mechanical Engineering; Ws. R. aaa “ei 
Architecture ; James D, Hacuz, in Mining Engineering; F. Booxsr, 
ern Lan rag es. 
11. Cabinet of Minerals for sale.—Dr. F. A. Genth, of pling : 
offers for sale his fine cabinet of rocks and minerals, rich in both fo 
and American specimens. It also includés a colledtion of fossils, 
nape 
Part of which we tebe era ig : 
R. Joan Leonarp Ripe. was born in Leyden, age the » ep 
day of of February, 1807, and died in New Orleans on the 7th day of Octo- 
ber, 1865. He was honorably descended from an ancient pido Irish — 
: family. In the fall of the teed 1807, he was taken by his parents to 
Se Preston, Chenan ango county, New York, ‘where his boyhood was spent ” 
his father’ 8 farm. He etwded the Oxford Academy during portions of 
