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OBITUARY, 
_Ruporps Wacyer.—The eminent comparative anatomist, R. Wagner, 
a died at Géttingen on the 13th of May. e was born at Baireuth in 
1805. He studied at Erlangen and Wirtzburg, and afterwards at Paris; 
m 1833 he became Professor of Zoology at Erlangen, and in 1840, of 
his investigations on the electrical organs of the torpedo, made in Italy 
m 1845, 1846, and of other researches. He also contributed to the 
Handworterbuch der Physiologie, of which he was editor, and to various 
scientific Journals. 
Evan H, Ph.D., President of the Agricultural College of Penn- 
sylvania, died April 29th, 1864. [An obituary notice will appear in our 
next number.—Ebs. } : 
VI. MISCELLANEOUS BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
1. Metallurgy: The art of extracting metals Srom their ores, and 
adapting them to various purposes of manusacture ; by Joun Percy, 
=D. PRS. Lecturer on Metallurgy at the Royal School of Mines, 
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Part U : Iron and Steel, 8vo, pp. 934. Murray, London, 1864.—This’ 
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Great Britain and on the Continent, in many matters regarding 
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Processes and ‘ 
Statistics of iron-smelting in this country, and we are glad to notice two 
large folio lithographs of the Thomas Anthracite Iron Furnaces at 
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It is scarcely possibly within our limits to give even a brief synopsis 
of the work. The first 146 pages are devoted to the physical and 
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