136 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
2. Walker Prizes—The founding of prizes by the late Dr. Wm. J. 
Walker, for memoirs presented to the Boston Society : Natural History, 
was mentioned in volume xl of this Journal, at page 
The sae are the lakjiels for prizes, as na a announced : 
Subject for 1866-7. “The fertilization of plants by the agency of 
io. in sete both to cases where this agency is absolutely neces- 
sary, and where it is only wrens ” the investigations to be in prefer- 
en panieeted to indigenous plan 
Sulject of the annual prize for 1867-8. “Adduce and discuss the 
evidences of the co-existence of man and extinct animals, with the view 
of atone the limits of his antiquity. 
rs offered in competition for the above prizes must be forwarded 
on or bihors April first, prepaid and addressed “ Boston seers uke of N atural 
History, for the Committee on the Walker Prizes, Boston, Mass 
Boston, June 1866. 
8. Rumford Medal.—The Rumford Medal of the American Academy 
of Arts and Sciences was, on the 12th of June last, awarded to Mr. 
Atvan Crarx of Cambridge, for his improvements in the making of 
lenses es the telesco 
. Henry A. Ward's Collections rf Casts of Fossils, at Roches- 
pee 7 Prof. Ward, in the course of his travels for the formation of 
ne large Cabinet at Rochester, has had occasion to make casts of numer- 
ous fossils, large and small, from the skeletons of Elephants, Mastodons, 
and the Gaud deloupe Man to shells of Rhizopods; and he is consequently 
enabled to furnish copies of oe to other cabinets. He is now issuing 
an illustrated enicene of 150 pages or more, which gives some idea of 
By means of them, series r representing the principal types of different 
families (as that of Trilobites, or of Ammonites, etc.) may be made 
effectiveness to a cabinet as a means of instruction. A gift of a collec- 
tion of Mr. Ward’s casts from any patron of learning to an academy or 
college would render great service to the instructor, the pupils, and the 
institution. 
OBITUARY. 
Henry Darwin Rocers, one of the most widely known and distin- 
guished of American Geo eologists, died on the 29th of May last, a 
Glasgow, in Scotland, where since 1857 he has held the sas! of baci 
Professor of Geology and Natural History. Prof. Rogers was born 
