820 Miscellaneous intelligence. 
various chemical articles. From this list of well-known authors 
and investigators, it is spe that the scientific character of the 
new edition of Appletons’ Cyclopedia is worthy, as a whole, of 
commendation. e miss —— a well-known name among 
the biographical sketches; for example, Dr. Charles G. Page, whose 
contributions to dyna mical electricity are second only, in this 
pesados to those of Prof Henry; and the well-known paleontolo- 
ist F. B. Meek. Other like omissions could easily be mentioned, 
while some names have a prominence greater than penta ! wil 
award them. 
Boston Society of Natural History.—The Paleontologia 
collections of the Boston Society of Natural History have bee 
procured. 
8. Geographical a at Paris.—The recent Geographical 
prt, Se at Paris awarded Letters of Distinction (highest award) 
o the Secretary of | tae Navy for the work of the Coast sae 
) we Severa years since he pu ished a scale ical map of 
Wisconsin, and also a map illustrating the influence of the t 
Lakes on the climate of Wisconsin rly drew attention to 
the Indian mounds of Wisconsin, and a work by him, ene ae 
by numerous plates, entitled “ Ae acie, of Wisconsin,” was 
published, in 1855, in the Smithsonian Saran eee to Knowle edge. 
Cart Jowann Avcusr Tuzopor ScuzErer, the mineralogist, 
metallurgist, and chemist, died at Pches. on the 20th of July 
last, having been born in Berlin on the 28th of August, 1813. 
He was the author of various works and memoirs of high merit; 
among the former his Lehrbuch der Hisenhittenkunde and bis 
well coe Léthrhorbuch (a treatise on the blowpipe), and among 
the latter a aber on Haremorphie ism in its relations to chemistry, 
mineralogy, and geology. 
