888 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
The noise heard in Haddonfield was similarly described by all 
observers as resembling the dragging of heavy furniture over the 
was felt at Dupont’s powder mills, where there was not an explo- 
sion, as has been suggested. 
OBITUARY. 
Prrer D. Knieskern, M. D., died at Shark River, New Jersey, 
on the 12th of September last. He was born at Berne, Albany 
county, N. Y., June 11,1798. When a boy his love of nature 
and of books was such that his father despaired of making 4 far. 
mer of him, and he consequently, but with great difficulties, found 
his way to a liberal education. He took his medical degree about 
the year 1829 or 1830, at Fairfield (College of Physicians and — 
geons of the Western District,) N. Y., then a famous school © 
medicine. He early became passionately fond of Botany, W% zt 
mre steahle collector and a keen observer w botanists have 
exce ir 
for its own sake. Neither poverty nor want of opportunity 
companionship appear to have discouraged him, alshosge ie 
: 1 w fie 
first established himself, as a physician, at New London, then 
oe 7 ved to Or iskany, N. Y. He published in th Report of oe 
- of the University for 1842, a catalogue of plants 
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