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a before — aid _ no obtained, owing to — r distance from 
hore, when it was alas! too He died soon after 
sles should, in re service of his country, not, indeed, on ap battlefield, 
but his armor on, and while engaged in perfecting a most important 
spcation of — principles to defensive ar. 
His 
Major Hunt was about 40 years ua age t the time of his death. He 
leaves a widow and one son. A fuller an of his life and labors will 
oe * a future j issue of this Journal. e Connecticut Academy sent 
on Woke x. C. Twining as a rit, to il them and the men of 
of the details of Major Hunt’s tragial d dea 
Prof. Ertuarp Mirscaertica.—Prof. Mitscherlich has recently died 
at Berlin at the age of sixty-nine. He had long been known as one of 
the ablest philosophical chemists = “e mee and = Bago in which 
he was held was exemplified by the numbers who ded his classes in 
the University of Berlin, and the F peiish. Wilhelm’ s- sin in ne city. 
The mere titles of his writings would occupy nearly two co this 
journal; they embrace a wi ide range in chemical science, oo ma ie found 
in the publications of the Academy of Sciences of Berlin, of which he 
was a member, and in German periodicals. Besides these, he was the 
author of a ‘Lehrbuch der Chemie,’ in two volumes, which has passed 
through two editions, and has been translated into French. Dr. Mitscher- 
lich was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1828 ; — 
. E Am. A ee or Arts AND Sciences, eco from vol. ie Vol. v, 
’ from May, 1860 to May, 1862.—31 
dried Plants maar — the Feejee I lands; Asa oe an , Characters 
of sy or obscure species of P. of Mon Bape te Orders in the Collection of 
nited i 
ap’ man, U.S.A. on ments in 
379, Upon the pina of Saturn; Prof. Peirce.— 383, Dbscriatnne! on North Tine 
ican and other Lichens; Edward Tuckerman, A.M. (continued from vol. iv, p. 407.) 
Procrepines on aol greta or Narveat Sctexces or Para DeLPata, from 
—< Ju uty, 488 8.—2, Deser ions of — fron the Yellow condos 
tematic arrangement = the Mollusks of, the Family Viiparitie anil i= hg 
iting the United Sta Theodore Gill,—40, Additional Remarks on the No 
American Egiothi, Elliott Coues, A.M., M.D.—438, On Trachycephalus, Scaphiopus 
and other American Batrachia; E. D. Cope-—55, Enumeration of the Species of 
Am. Jour. Sct.—Szconp Series, Vou. XXXVI, No. 108.—Noyv., 1863. 
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