180 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
library, which he gave to Brown University. To it also, or at 
— to his native State, he made handsome legacies for botanical 
struction, as well as other benevolent bequests. These bene- 
eat s, and his many good offices, should preserve a pleasant 
i of a useful life, the end of which was obscured and 
afflicted by mental trouble. In Botany his name is commemorated 
by a remarkable Leguminous tree of Fvene (Olmeya) and by 
several specie of his own discovery. Mr. Olney was rage 
ost. of hh life engaged in fea at firs 
1 
James Warson Rossins, M.D., died at Uxbridge, etts 
(where he resided and was an esteemed physician for the greater 
part of a long life), on the 9th day of January, 1879, at the age of 
77. With the exception of Dr. Bigelow he was the oldest New 
England botanist, and perhaps the oldest in the United States; 
and, within his range, he was certainly one of the most careful and 
accurate. He was a colleague of William Oakes, who had the 
He collected not only throughout New England, but in Virginia 
and Maryland, where he resided for several years when a young 
man, and on the shore of Lake Superior, where he spent four years. 
Of lat te, he devoted his attention main nly to aquatic pheenogamous 
plants, especially to the difficult genus Potamogeton. He contr- 
buted the monograph of this genus to the last edition of Gray’s 
Manual. He ip detected that simplest and smallest of flowering 
plants, Wof n this country. His excellence and amiability 
secured the meppekinod! of all’ who knew him. He was born a 
Colebrook, Conn., November 18, 1801, graduated at Yale College 
in 1822, and there took his medical degree i in 1828, In his death 
we have lost the most critical student of the botany of New Eng- 
land at the Northern Atlantic States, 
Jacos BicELow, the most venerable of ene even more dis- 
tinguished as a physician, a cultivator of the fine and useful arts, 
scholar, one of the most rounded and symmetrically devel- 
ied men of his time and place, died at Boston, on the 10th of 
January ult. The notice due to his life and services mms be 
deferred to the next number 
IV. MiIsceELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
sisch ; ee von E. aati L. Bacn H, u. A., nsgegebe 6 
von Carl von Albert, mit einem Vorwort von Dr. tal Karmarseh. 
Dritte verbesserte und bedeutend vermehrte gn 743 pe 
8vo. Wiesbaden, 1877. (J. F. Bergmann; B. Westermann & 
in New York. )—This Technological | Dictionary ice _ com- 
mendation both dened its completeness and its accuracy. sub- 
jects which it embraces include all the prominent branches 2% 
well of pure as of applied science, so that the work is alike valu- 
