450 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
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and most of the important papers which have been presented at 
its sessions, and bears testimony to the cou ra the Institute 
and the value of many of the papers read —— 
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WELL, F.R.A.S., F.C.S., &c. 135 pp. 12mo. London, 187 4. »  MeMillan 
& Co.)—Mr. Rodwell has made an extremely ‘interesting little 
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taste and learned researc It is a multum in parvo and a desir- 
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xicon has for fort years been a wtaire authority for Amer- 
ican medical readers and students. s new edition, by Dr. 
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plete revision of the whole work, an a dition of more than six 
OBITUARY. 
Prof. L, A. J. Quéretzr died at —_— on the 16th of Feb- 
ruary, at the age of 72. At the age of eighteen he was made 
Professor of Mathematics at the royal lations at Ghent. In pa 
at the age of twenty-three, he received the same appointment a 
the Atheneum at Brussels. From 1828 to his death he was ™ 
charge of the Royal Observatory, which was built under a 
direction. For forty years he has been Purpesaal Secretary of the 
Royal Belgian Academy. 
He has edited the Correspondence Math. et i BVO, 11 vols., 
Asta | the Anhedda of the Obeersienre etec., in all, over two 
hundred voiumes. In addition, he has written a ag ew mber 
volumes, some of them of a popular oe on Probabilities, 
Physics, Astronomy, Meteorology, Stat Man, and has 60 
tributed to the above and other porindicals not less than three 
hundred articles or memoirs. 
Prof. Quételet was the first to announce the annual r ecu 
of the August meteors, though the discovery was independently 
made by Mr. Herrick. 
The death of the distinguished astronomer MApLER is eee 
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