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80 "Miscellaneous intelligence. 
This is a good beginning with a medal which is, perhaps, 
destined to become famous in the history of science. There will 
be no question as regards the custody of the golden prize, for each 
of the two learned professors will have a medal.— Athenceum. 
ver Country or the Great Southwest. A review of the Mineral and 
th, the attractions and material development of the former kingdom of 
ew Spain, comprising Mexico and the Mexican Cessions to the United States in 
1848, and 1853, by A. D. Anderson. 221 pp. 8vo. New York, 1877. (G. P. 
Putnam’s Sons). 
Journal of the American Electrical Society ; including original and selected 
papers on Telegraphy and Electrical Science. Vol. i, No. 2, Chicago, 1877. 
OBITUARY. 
Jarep Rorrer Kirrianp, M.D., LL.D.—Dr. Kirtland died at 
his residence in East Rockfort (near Cleveland), Ohio, December 
10, 1877, at the advanced age of eighty-four years, having been 
born in Wallingford, Connecticut, November 10th, 1793, In 
ory. 
Dr. Kirtland was a man of untiring industry, devoted to the 
duties of an arduous practice in medicine, and tho P 
fessor of the theory and practice of his art in more than one 
stores of exact id varied knowledge afforded an unfailing source 
of enjoyment. He retained his intellectual powers undimmed to 
Journal in 1818, and his name has stood on its books to the close 
of the last year, being, so far as appears, the last member of that 
original number, reas 
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