398 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
Critiques and Addresses ; by Taos. Henry Huxtey. 
a 12mo. 1873, New York. (D. Appleton & Co.)- pri > s subjects 
are Administrative nihilism; school-boards; medical education; 
e 
eontology and the doctrine of evolution; Mr. Darwin’s critics; 
genealogy of animals; Bishop Berkeley on the metaphysics of 
— ation. 
Volcanic Energy: an sang to develop its true Origin and 
Dosedend Relations - by Rozert Matxer, F.R.S. From the Trans- 
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science, read before the Royal Society June 20, 1872, has recently 
been issued. A notice of it is deferred to another number. The 
views have been briefly mentioned in the last volume of this 
ome 1. 
The Unity of Natural Phenomena ; a Lig tee nti 
to ae study of the Forces of Nature: from the Fre iL 
Saigey, with an Introduction and Notes by "Ta, F , F, Mos SE < ‘A M., 
M.D., Prof. Nat. Sci. Urbana University. 254 pp. 12mo. Boston, 
1873. _ & Lauriat). 
9. Comets and Meteors: their phenomena in all ages ; r 
mutual cations and the theory of their origin; by ees 
Kirxwoop, LL.D., Prof. Math. Indiana Univ. 93 pp. 12mo, with 
excellent illustrations. haitersnry mh 1833. (Lippincott & Co.)— 
A notice is deferred to another n 
OBITUARY, 
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19th of September, 1873, aged 69. Mr. Williams was extensively 
nown as one of the best collectors of minerals in the country, and 
but few cabinets of any note are without s pee of minerals 
from Chester and Osler “Cousition, Penn., furnished by him. 
He paid particular attention to the minerals -asaettntet with re 
chrome iron at Texas, and to those found in the northern part 0 
Chester Co. 
The work in which he took the most pride, was the discovery 
of the rich deposits of corundum near Unionville, Chester Co. 
He accompanied the Mexican Boundary Survey as mineralogists 
but unfortunately the greater part of his collection made pe toe 
time was lost while crossing a river, by the drowning of his 
He made a number of very fine collections of suits of eee va 
of which formed thé foundation for the well known cabinet? 
hae et . Jeffries. The Williamsite of Shepard was na os 
is 
Prof. ee watt, the director of the Astronomical Observatory i 
Florence, Lees of ik era at Vienna, Sept. 20th. 
M. Cos ember of the Institute of Tekno author of num 
ous phyiologieal works: prominent in the science of the 
production of fish, and epee e fluvi 34 and coast 
eries ~ recently at Pari e age of sixty-Sl " 
f. Czermak, the shiysldlogist, died at ‘Lepas Sept. 16¢ 
