304 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



the industrial Journals details relative to processes upon which he ba^l 

 collected notes. Few men have lived whose existence was more completely 

 filled than that of Marcel de Serres; few savants have displayed greater 

 activity and found themselves in a position so favorable to render service 

 to science. With mere ambition, and in another field, he might have 

 reached a high station in the State, but bis desires were not in the direc- 

 tion of political distinction. Simple in his tastes, kind and polished in bis 

 relations, more devoted to science than sensible to the honors to which it 

 led, he seemed neither to doubt or to cultivate his own reputation ; happy 

 without applause and famous without ostentation. 



H. H. DE Senarmont: died very suddenly (aged 56 years) at Faris on 

 the 30th of June at 2| o'clock a. m., of syncope consequent on inveterate 

 gout. The appreciation of his loss was such in Paris that the Academy of 

 Sciences immediately adjourned on hearing of the decease of their distin- 

 guished associate. To quote the words of the Secretary, "In the state of 

 general consternation which this unexpected news had produced on the 

 Academy and upon the public which had come in to attend the session, 

 tiiey could think of nothing but their sad loss. Therefore on the motion 

 of Messrs. Chevreul and Combes, who appeared as the organs of tlie 

 public grief, the assembly dispersed, the prey of the most lively emotion.' 



His death leaves a great void in the Academy. He will be keeiily 

 missed by all the younger men of science whom he loved to encourage 

 and of whom he was the eloquent advocate. 



Mr. de Senarmont was Professor of Mineraloffv in the School of Mines 

 at the time of his death. ^ 



Dr.HENRicH Georg Bronn: Professor of Natural History in the Uni- 

 versity of Heidelberg, Baden, died suddenly of disease of the heart at 3i 

 o'clock, p. M., on the 5th of July, in the 62d year of his age. This death is 

 a great loss to science. Dr. Bronn was a most successful and laborious 



' • '^ • oology, Geol- 



The list of 



Zoolog., reaches thirty-eight, up° to 1848, only. His great work Z-^- 

 thaa Geognostka, appeared in a new edition from 1851 to 1856. Since 

 then he has been chiefly occupied with an elaborate illustrated Treatise 

 entitled, "Die Klassen und Ordnunjren des Thier-Reichs wissenschatten 

 dargestelt in Wort und Bild." ^ 



This remains incomplete, the last part which has reached us being No- 

 16 of the 3d volume, containing Malacozoa. , _ 



His Index Palceontohfficus, 3 vols., 1848-49. Part 1st, J^omenclam 

 palmontologicus, a-z, pp. 1381 and Pars 2d, Enumerator paloeontologKf'^ 

 pp. 980, is one of those works of vast and exhausting labor which !«« 

 have the courage or knowledge to undertake, but the value of wh"^''- ^ 

 of a good lexicon is inappreciable : would it could be brought <xo^ 



On the 23d of January, 1862, he lost hi 

 co-editor, Prof. Leonhard. The Journal (Nei 



Prof.'Bronn leaves two sons, Leopold and Henrich ( 



