80 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
terest in reclaiming them, and in arranging for their preservation 
in the British Museum, grew out of memory of assistance ren- 
dered by Salisbury, who lent ie these manuscripts when he was 
preparing the “ Natural Arrangement of British Plants,” and of 
former propositions of Salisbury, that he should devote himself to 
botany and edit any unpublished works that the latter might 
leave In manuscript. Dr. Gray declined the proposition, and with 
it tempting  agassen offers. But, after forty years interval, he 
printed a “fragment of the Genera Plantarum, exactly as it was 
left by the author, for the purpose of showing’ the kind of work 
that he intended to produce.” 
r. Gray married, in 1826, the widow of his cousin, Francis 
Edward Gray, “a fitting helpmate to share and encourage him in 
all his undertakings,” an excellent senna and conchologist, a 
are * —- ade ers and grace A. G. 
L SHERARD OsporN died on or 6th of May, in his 54th 
ear. Hes abaed ee Ro = navy in 1837, became lieutenant in 
1846, and three years afterward ee selected as a volunteer for the 
Arctic expedition sent in search of Sir John Franklin: again, in 
1852, he took command of = Pioneer on a second extended Are- 
tic expedition, having the same p se in vie He was a mem- 
ber of the committee on ph eats of the expedition which has 
just sailed. 
Samurt Hernricu Scuwase, the astronomer, died on the 11th 
of April, in his 86th year. To Schwabe’s observations on the sun’s 
spots science owes the discovery of their periodicity, and that the 
length of the Spanos was ten to eleven years. 
INDLAY, the geographer, and member of the Council of 
the Geographical Society of London, died at Dover on the 3d of 
ag in his 64th y 
1. DesHAaYEs, a in the Paris Museum of Natural His- 
wry, died on the 9th of June 
osEPH WINLOCK, Director of the Observatory of Harvard Col- 
lege, died suddenly on the 11th of Jun 
Sir Witir1am Logan, long at the hagd of the Begepen! wos 
of Canada, died at Ontario, Canada, on the 28th of Jun 
Memoirs of the Geological Survey of — Palzontologize In — Fauna of 
the Indian Fluviatile Deposits, vol. i, ser: x; I, Rhinoceros Deecanensis, by R. B. 
= 18 pp., ye bg eas plates.— —Also vol x, part 2, and vol. ba a 1 of the 
moirs, and v of the “ Records” of the Surve. 
ep rectival Hints on den ebb ts and use of the Microscope, by Johit Phin. 131 
pp. 12mo. 1875. New ie Riese Industrial Publication Co.)—A small meager 
work, ioe pee ek 
A Brie Heat, light E Electricity and Magnetism, by — Skelton, 
M.D. 7 on ay hg Trenton, New Jersey, 1875.—The author, to the 
present theories, makes light the rapid wave motion of imponderable Seng 
heat, matte: ex derable matter; electrici 
le matter in flowing currents. 
ie Idee der Entwickelung; eine sozial philosophische von 
