140 Miscellaneous Bibliography. 
OBITUARY. 
V ALENCIENNES.—Mr. Me omar the distinguished zoologist, died 
at Paris on the 12th of April last. He was born in that city on the 9th 
of April, 1794. Mr. Decaisne aubouuaed his dea th to the Academy 
Science in the following words: Mr. Valenciennes was the friend ‘and 
fellow-worker of the most illustrious naturalist of the age, George Cuvier. 
He was for half a century the friend and confidant of Alexander von 
Humboldt. Such friendships he ever honor the memory of our regret- 
ted confrére.—Les Mondes, May 
Pierre GRatrouet, the Sequel ‘professor of zoology of the Faculty of — 
Sciences, Paris, distingu a he also as a spiritualist writer, died suddenly 
on the 21st of February las 
EON Duroour, one of fhe most sepa of French zoologists, and 
especially bee in entomology, long an associ ~~ . Cuvier, Latreille, 
ete., died on the 18th of April, in his eighty-sixth pee. 
DMIRAL haaoe: the able and Jearned conta of the a 
Expedition of the Beagle, (that of which Darwin was the natur rali 
hydrographical surveyor in various regions, and author of extent me- 
teorological researches, died eee in May last, in his 60th year, having 
en born on the 5th of July, 1 
ESSLY, a prominent Swiss ‘geologist, died recently at Soleure, 
in Switzerland 
R J. RicHarpson, es ee naturalist and Arctic be 
died on the 5th of Jun 
VI. MISCELLANEOUS BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
A Treatise on Astronomy ; by Exras Loomis, LL.D., Professor 
Nat Phil and ‘Ailton. in Yale College. Harper & Brothers, New ae 
ce tat ae, Rid 338.—This treatise is especially designed as a college 
: is primary object has directed the selection of the topics, 
ical comets and haat isd » the ane ; 
stars, dc. 
on Practical Astronomy a been deservedly 
classes affords 
xperience ase the peculiar wants of college. 
reatise = worthy of favor. 
