608 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
from — conditional on the same amount being raised by 
the Mus 
Li. Bulletin of the Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences, 
for 1874, Minneapolis, 1874. (Price 50 cents.)—Among the arti- 
cles in this a there are: a Report on the Birds of Minnesota, 
b h, M. D.; ; List of the Mammals of Minnesota, by_ 
A and Geolo eisal Notes from early explorers in the 
Minnesota Valley, by N TL Winchell, an important paper contain- 
ts bearing on the distribution of the Archean in _ region, 
ae liwata to papers in this volume by Profies sor Verrill: 
Page 39, line 45, for Ophiocenida hispida, read Ophiacantha island Page 1 
~ line, for. ro Uro. rosaiphina, read Urosalpinx. Page 413, next to last line, for Phake. 
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OBITUARY. 
Professor Jonn Puriutes, pee omg of Geology in the Univer- 
sity of Oxford, and eminent for his labors and works connected 
with his favorite science. Pee on the 24th o 
e death of Mr. Phillips was the result of an accident. On 
the 23d of April he had been dining at All Soul’s College, and 
was returning, accompanied by the Frincipal of Jesus College, 
when, in crossing the top of a ees his foot ne etc slipped 
and he fell headlong down a flight of stone stairs. Par alysis and 
unconsciousness came on instantly, and about one o ’clock on the 
24th he expired. He was just a, Bode years of age. 
Left an orphan at eight years old to the care of his uncle, 
William Smith, well known as “ « the father of English Geology,” 
he was as one may say “to the hammer born.” His con nection 
with the Yorkshire Philosophical Society dates back to 1826, me 
with the British Association from its establishment in 1831; 
deed, “he was the life and soul of its annual reunions.” — Got 
Mag. Jor 
OHANN ia EINRICH VON M&pier, the astronomer, and author, 
with Beer, of “ Der Mond” and the accompanying “ Mappa Sele- 
born at Berlin on the 29th of May, 1794. In 1840 he became 
Soe eate of Astronomy at the Perey of Darya and Director 
f the oe as successor to W. S 
oe n fiir das Kénigreich Sah von August Frenzel. ite 
pp. 12mo. erenligr 1814. (W. Engelmann.)—Saxony ae > mines and miner 
als, and this little volume is a convenient work on its min 
ae on the cea = of Mines of Nova Scotia re a9 ave 1873. 88 pp. 
8vo. Halifax, N.S., 
Annual so Ob Rukh arbey. 0 the Nosthern ‘an d Northwestern Lakes, 
_ charge of C. B. Comstock, Major of Engineers, U. S. vs , being yee BB. of 
_ the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1873. 
_ faleontob -—Series viii, 3, 4, 5, us Fauna of Southern 
_ India, Vol. iv, 3, contains the Echinodermata, by F . Stoliczka; Vol. iv, 4, con- 
. have also appeared the Memoirs ¢ the Geological Survey of Indian Vol. 
<A e Foote, and of the Satpura 
rey eo Bees So tenes 2, 3, and 4. 
