160 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
with Prof. J. D. Whitney. Two Reports and an atlas embody 
the results of these explorations, the second volum e being devoted 
to the iron region, together with the general geology. This is a 
work of high va value in the development of American eae both 
theoretical and practical. 
. Foster was born at Petersham, Massachusetts, March 4, 
1815, and graduated at Wesleyan University, Middletown. He 
served for a while in the Legislature of his native state. About 
where h i 
The last and most important work of Col. Foster appeared at the 
very moment of his death, entitled “ Pre-historic Races of the 
United States of America,” a notice of which will appear in 
another number. 
ENRY JamES CLARKE, Professor in the Amherst Agricultural 
College, died at Amherst, Mass., on the Ist of July. His labors asa 
zoologist, especially in those departments requiring difficult micro- 
scopic research, had placed him among the two or three first in 
the e country, an given ham a world- wide pepesenous He was for 
embryo eu researches on the turtle are his work. Foremost 
among his several discoveries with the microscope is that of the 
true nature of ee animal of sponges, till then misunderstood, the 
last paper on which subject by him appeared in this Jou rnal for 
December, 1871. He was also the author of a work enti 
Mind in Nature, “based on ae and development in the 
mal kingdom , and containing many of his hare results, with 
illustrations from his own faithful drawings. He was always 
working, and va ot enthusiasm in science, and also a most gemal 
and excellent 
THoMAS sist BuTLER, & ae bets and meteorologist, 
born in Wethersfield, Conn. eS 
meteorology. He was the author of “The Philosophy of the 
Weather” (1856), and of “A concise analytical and logical develop- 
ment of the Atmospheric bla y Hartford, 1870.” He was ¢ oe 
the progress of g eolo oo science in America, as well as in Europe 
and pgs is profoundly indebted, died at Paris on the 29th of 
