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4. Half Hours with Insects.—Prof. A. 8. Packard, Jr., is con- 
tinuing his chapters on Insects, in the ae Recreations in 
Natural History of Estes & Lauriat. The third part (out of the 
twelve to be issued) treats of the Relations - Insects to Man. 
the meeting will be found in Na uing, commencin 
with No. 251, August 20th, — cjulans Prof. Tyndall’s aden: 
ands Manual of Geo ogy.—An engraver’s mistake which 
In the map of England on page should be 9, and 9 shou 
be 8. It will be made right eee ote again 
OBITUARY. 
. Death of Prof. Jarrrizs Wyman.—This most estimable man 
and most excellent Giativalat-fantle princeps of American com- 
parative pirgtmg 0 peg uddenly at Bethlehem, N. H., on the 
the 
age. He was graduate ed at Harvard University in 1833, Anok 
his medical degree in 1837, pursued his medical, and especially 
anatomical and ON ‘studies at Paris for two ears, when 
returning to Boston, he was for a few years curator of the ‘Lowell 
Tastitute. Hens re delivered two courses of lectures on compara- 
medical school in Boston. an’s position secured to 
him a good opportunity for prosecuting his arches, and for 
uilding u e museum omparative anatomy—the objects 
which he had most but only a slender salary. After 
citizen of Boston, who recognized Prof. Wyman’s great value to 
the university and to science, and who stipulated that the income 
of his endowment should be paid to Prof. Wyman throughout his 
— whether he held the professorial chair or not. e lled 
ts du ties most acceptably, down to a recent sated: when his state 
d of work. When the Peabody Museum of he aaa Arche- 
ology and Ethnology was established, the founder made Prof. 
Wyman one of his trustees, and the board committed the incipient 
