296 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
tions of that State, and had just got his specimens collected and 
arranged, when the war broke out, and he returned to St. Louis. 
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thickiiem, estimated at not less than ten shiaiadidl feet. 
ceeded in rescuing his library from Austin at the end of the wie 
but never Seeder to prosecute the survey. His extensive collec- 
tion of specimens is at the Bonham Female Seminary, where it was 
his intention to have it arranged and tabard under his supervision 
for the benefit of the people of St. Lou 
octor sega ~y aves a wife, and te daughters, one nine and 
the a four old. 
Faieph Rois 7 ukes was an Englishman. For the last nineteen 
years he had been on the Irish Surv eys. Prof. Jukes graduated at 
St. John’s College, Cambridge, in 1836. He studied geology under 
Sedgwicke, of whom he was a favorite pupil. After he left college 
he sailed to and explored the north coast of Australia on board H.M. 
S. Fly, to which he was appointed as Naturalist. Subsequently 
he surveyed the island of Newfoundland, After his return from 
that country he joined the English survey under Sir 
Beche, when Mr. Jukes examined some of the most intricate parts 
of the geology of North Wales. Later he minutely worked 55 
the South Staffordshire coal-field, and wrote a description of it, 
which was published among the Memoirs of the Geological Sur- 
vey. In 1850 Prof, Jukes was appointed to the directorshi o 4 
h : 
r a ‘ a 
nichtbeti of that part of geology, and raised us to an equality — 
the ¢ 
with our brethren on continent. His vigorous mind gras 
the wenldgy of Devonshire ; and although few yet accept his solu- 
tion, the final acceptance is ‘only a question « of a5 is place on 
the Irish Geological § Survey cannot easily be filled, mee especially 
as the solutions of some difficult problems atl remal 
