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three, and in North Platte, Lincoln and West Point, Neb., two 
shocks were felt. In North Platte and Columbus, Neb., and in 
Sioux City, Iowa, walls of buildings were cracked. The times 
given are still very discordant, varying all the way from 10.40 
A. M., to 12.20 Pp. M., Omaha time i 
A. M., is probably not far from correct. The December number of 
Peterman’s Mittheilungen, contains a long article on the Iquique 
earthquake of May 9, 1877, giving valuable data in regard to 
and ocean wave. Ue 
6. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Paleontologia 
Indica, Section Il, No. 2, contains Jurassic (Liassic) flora of 
of Washington University, St. Louis, which will be recognized as 
the “central station.” The circular issued is signed by William 
S. Eliot, President of the University, and Francis E. Nipher, Pro- 
su workers in this branch of science, 
the literature would be otherwise inaccessible, can hardly be over- 
estimated, 
OBITUARY. 
M. Antoine Cfsar Brcqueret died on the 19th of January, 
at the advanced age of nearly ninety years. ite was born at 
Chatillon-sur-Loing (Loiret) on the 7th of March, 1788. 
as educated in the Polytechnic School, which he left as 
icer i 8. He served in Spain and took part in 
several sieges under the orders of Marshal Suchet. In 1814 M. 
Beequerel was named Inspector of the Polytechnic School, and he 
quitted the army in 1815. es: 
da Member of the Académie des Sci- 
M. Beecquerel was elected a Me Se uabesof tas Rees 
