Miscellaneous Bibliography. ct) 
17. White Fish of the Great Lakes of N. America.—A writer in the 
Atheneum urges the introduction of the “ celebrated White Fish of the 
Canadian Lakes” into the “lakes of Cumberland and Scotland, now al- 
most valueless,” . 
«» OBITUARY. 
Francis Atcer.—Francis Alger was born in Bridgewater, Massachu- 
setts, March 8, 1807, and died suddenly at Washington, of typhoid pneu- 
monia, Nov. 27, 1863. His taste for Mineralogy and other branches of 
science was first awakened in 1824. In 1826, he went to Nova Scotia 
ad adapted to American science by the addition of lists of localities, 
VI. MISCELLANEOUS BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
1. Canadian Naturalist and Geologist.—This valuable bi-monthly sci- 
entific Journal, published at Montreal, under the auspices of the Natural 
‘istory Society of Montreal and containing its Proceedings, closed its 
first series with the end of the 8th volume, and began its second with 
Am. Jour. Scr.—Seconp Series, Vou. XXXVIII, No. 114.—Nov., 1864. 
