324 Miscellaneous In telligence. 
The same publishers have just now issued Prof. Tyndall’ ie 
tures in this country, in a duodecimo volume with numerous 
illustrations 
OBITUARY. 
Dr. Joun Torrey.—Dr. Torrey died of pneumonia at his house, 
Columbia College, New York, on Monday, March 10th, at the — 
ripe age of 77 years. He was born in New York Tuga 15th, 1796. 
He was universally beloved by all who kne him for his s genial 
and truthful qualities, and equally respected for his hi zhi inte 
and moral powers and his solid attainments in various sciences. 
Immediately after his Cheam in medicine he ontanee upon 
the study of mineralogy, chemist ry and botany, the three 
sciences to which he devoted his tte His first botanical memoir, 
a list of the plants growing within thirty miles of the city of New 
York, 
a Jittle earlier. He was one of the founders and presidents of ie 
ork Lyceum of Trae History, in the Annals of which 
some of his earliest papers eared. He was made Professor of 
chemistry in the United States Military Academy at West Point 
in 1824, where he remained only three years, preferring the same 
chair in his Alma Mater, the College of Pe yaciant and Surgeons in 
New York, where he entered upon n his duties in 1827 and remained 
a most successfal and honored teacher of his favorite science until 
1854. During a portion of this time he also discharged é duties 
h 
signed his last report on the morning of Monday, only a few hours 
before his death. 
In chemistry Dr, Torrey labored much in the laboratory, but he 
published little, his extreme modesty and conscientious desire for 
all students in mineralogy and chemistry for his acute perceptions 
and minute knowledge of the existing state of these sciences, ™ 
which he kept himself always well read up. 
e most important and numerous contributions of Dr. . 
Torrey to science were made in the the department of Botany, © 
which he was an assiduous and most successful student up to the. 
close of his life. Dr. Torrey’ s labors in this science lh be chronl- 
cled in these pages by his fellow worker in the sa e field, & 
Asa Gray, whose name is intimately associated with ha in the his- 
ory of American botanical science. d 
HM eaves one sen, who was his official associate, a 
re daughters, all noted for their varied learning. B® 
