Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



This form would : 



It is true that thi 



chemist himself with the blowpipe. 



the lime saved which is wasted on this mechanical work, and it would 



be better done in the glass-house. Any manufacturer who would give 



would doubtless find his account in doing so. m. c.'l. 



6. Old friends with new faces. — Sometime since it was urged that the 

 word "telegraph" as applied to the dispatch sent was ambiguous and 

 IiHble to be mistaken fur the instrument itself, and the new word "tele- 

 gram" was coined to remove the objection. Somewhat reluctantly the 

 new comer was admitted, and now we are asked to consent to "photo- 

 grams."* If we assent to this innovation how can we object to paragrams, 

 autograms and lithograms? 



Marcel de Serres died on the 22d of July at Montpellier (France) in 

 the 82d year of his age. He was a corresponding member of the Academy 

 of Sciences at Paris, and Professor of Geology in the Faculty of Sciences 

 at Montpellier. He belonged to the same family with the celebrated Agri- 

 culturist, Olivier de Serres, a family famous in civil life, he himself having 

 exercised the functions of a Councilor from 1814 to 1852, and published 

 a work in 3 volumes entitled : Manuel des Coars d' Assises. But his 

 reputation rested chiefly upon his scientific labors, especially in the de- 

 Pnitraent of philosophical natural history. He belonged to a class of 

 Savants rare now-a-days, who embraced at one grasp all branches of sci- 

 ence, seeking rather to illustrate one by another than to apply himself 

 exclusively lo advancing the progress of one alone. He thus studied plants 

 a'ld animals in their mutual relations to both living and fossil species, the 

 )f species on the globe, their geographic distnbu- 

 i their anatomy as well as their physiology. His 

 ^",Hi researcties embrace a wide range, e. g., in comparative anatomy 

 ' ^ve his Memoir on the eves of Insects ; in Geology and Paleontology 

 ^ !>'searches on Caverns and their bones ; and those in the Tertiary de- 

 - He published an extended work on the Mosaic Cosmogony and 

 '•ion to Geolo<ry and others on pure Geolcgy and Mineralogy, while 

 'f-moirs sur les terrains du midi de la France occupy an important 

 P^'i'^e ill the history of Geology. He was the pupil of the most dis- 

 ^'"guished masters of the last generation, of Haiiy, Alex. Brongniart and of 

 tl^e leaders in moral and ethical sciences, having been originally destined 

 for the church. A commission from Daru, intendent general of the great 

 ^/"ly then in Austria, called him in May, '^ ^'" 



^rt« and Manufactures, J 

 ^rts, manufactures, agric 

 etits which he collectec 

 ^'ai of sixteen volumes, v 



i823. He was a man of vast industry and uniinng t:uc.g^, -"-5 " — 

 «actness his post as Councilor of the Court, he discharged with zeal his 

 <iuties as Professor printing at the same time in the Scientific Journals, 

 memoirs on zoolJgy. pallontolology, geology, vbile he published in 

 * Sabine Phii Mag. Dec. 1861, p. 479. 



