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9. Dr. A. Krantz.—The ‘th edition of the Catalogue of minerals, 
rocks, fossils, casts and models for sale at the large and well known house 
of Dr, Krantz, at Bonn, in Prussia on the Rhine, has recently been issued, 
and exhibits great completeness in his stock in all departments, and favor- 
able prices for purchasers. Besides the various other collections, we 
observe one of 114 models of occurring crystalline forms of various min- 
erals, in wood, well labelled, with reference to standard works, for 16 
thalers; and another of 675 forms, for only 120 thalers (the thaler being 
2 equivalent to about 75 cents). 
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Ozsrrvary.—Tuomas B. Wirsox.—The scientific world has sustained 
a severe loss in the death of Dr. Thos. B. Wilson, the late President of 
the Academy of Natural Sciences, in this city, which took place on the 
15th of March last, at his late residence in Newark, Delaware. 
Wilson, who was a native of Philadelphia, has for many years devoted 
himself to the encouragement and promotion of zoological science, 
_ especially in connection with the Academy of Natural Sciences, an in- 
stitution which, mainly by his energy, ability and princely liberality, has 
been raised from comparative mediocrity to an equality with the leading 
kindred institutions of the Old World, The superb collection of Birds, 
which ranks as the third in importance in the world, and the invaluable 
Library of the Academy, are but a partial evidence of Dr. ilson’s 
unostentatious munificence. Every department of the institution bears 
his mark and will feel his loss. He has also contributed largely of late 
lificult to estimate the value of such men to the cause of science, or 
the loss which a community sustains when their labors are cut short.— 
Georce H. Emurson.—Mr. George H. Emerson, a young chemist of 
much promise, originally from the city of Hartford, Ct., died at Green- 
field, Mass., after a long and painful illness, on the 28th of December 
at the age of twenty-seven. Mr. Emerson is the author of a memoir 
“On crystals and precipitates in Blowpipe Beads,” presented to the Bos- 
ton Society of Natural History, an abstract of which was published in 
. . Having so 
Cott his health by a journey to Florida without avail, he died at Green- 
Sid a few months after his return. . 
: : Au. Jour. S8cr1.—Szeconp Serres, VOL. XESIA; No. 117,.—May, 1865. 
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