242 Miscellaneous intelligence. 
Reverend Apam Sepewick, Woodwardian Professor of Geolog 
in the University of Cambridge, one of the oldest of English geol- 
ogist, and best of men, died on the 28th of January, aged 86 years. 
Ie was born at Dent in Yorkshire, June, 1784, and graduated at 
Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1808. The labors of no English 
geologist haye made a more profound impression on geological 
cience. 
James Henry Corrin, Professor of Mathematics and Astron- 
omy in Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., Feb. 6, 1873. Prof. Coffin 
was born Sept. 6, 1806 in Northampton , Mass., was sce 
by Rev. Moses Hallock, of that State, and "graduated at Amhers 
in 1838. His life has been spent in teaching. While ree in 
Williams College, from 1838 till 1843, he advised and directed 
the building of Greylock Obs servatory, ae Saddle Mountain, the 
first combined self-registering an er and barometer being 
there placed by him, an impro ne coe of which he recently 
sent to the Brazilian Government. Since 1846 he has been con- 
nected with Lafayette College. Shortiy before his death he com- 
pleted a revised and enlarged edition of the “ Winds of the North- 
ern Hemisphere .” publishe ed by the Smithsonian Institute in 1851. 
e most noteworthy of his ‘other publications are “Solar and 
Lunar Eclipses,” “A Discussion of a Meteoric Fire-ball,” &c. 
Matraew F. Maury, formerly commander in the United States 
navy, jade at Lexington, Va., on the Ist of February. Professor 
is numerous es, e been of great value to commerce. In 
1844 he became superintendent of the depot of charts and instru- 
ments shington, out of which have grown the Naval obser- 
Pro o a Professor of Civil Engineering and 
Mechanics in at University 0: Glasgow, died at his residence in 
that city, Christmas eve, 1872 in the fifty-third year of his age. 
Annual Report of the Survey of the Northern and Northwestern Lakes. 
C. B. Comstock, Major of are: _ bala Appendix Z of the Annual faery 
the bowen: of Engineers. pp. 
buzioni Atnoralogce ants okies alla — dell’ Incendio Vesuviano del 
Pes "ai Aprile, 1872; r+ cangelo Scacchi. 36 pp., 4to, Napoli, 1872. 
8 ee ne della ce ere Valeani nica ; BEN IRE 10 pp., 4to, 1872. 
Notizi re specie ‘mineralogiche rinvenute nel Vesuvio dopo 
Vi te nape ii i Aprile, 1872; aed del A. Seacchi. 
dargestelte m Mine : : krystallo-chemischen 
ieccanesane hess von Dr. ©. W. ©. Fuchs, — in Heidelberg: 
Eine von der Hollandischen Ge —— der Wissenchaften in Haarlem, an Mai, 
1871, gekronte Preisschrift. 174, 4to. Haarlem: 1872. 
