Scientific Intelligence.—Obituary. 395 
16. British Association at Birmingham.—Th 1e British As- 
sociation opened at Birmingham on the 6th of Seneatee ote Phil- 
lips being the Poitier The number of members at the meeting during 
the week following was about 1,400, and besides these there were present 
se ladies and 23 foreigners. The finds received amounted to 222771. ; 
The iatichad 0 on s read was two hundred and six ae 
3c @ no space in this number for a soles of the Proceedings. The so 
meeting Ms be held at Nottingham. 
ma Nature of Linneus.—By letter from Prof. A. E. Nor- 
denskiold a Stockholm we igere me the i of Sciences of Sweden 
and its declination N. sae 20! 47-1", It has been named Clio. 
19. Ltalian Society of Natural Sciences.—An ex traordinary meeting 
of = Society was held at nh seope on the 17th of Sapee nber. 
. Prof. Berthelot—A chair of Organic Chemistry has been founded 
at the College of France, and Prof Berthelot Soe aie to fill the place.— 
fteader, Sept. 2 
21. Statue of Arago.—An inauguration of the statue of Arago, erected 
at his birthplace, Estagel, in the Basses Pyrenees, took place on the sien 
of August. His son, dissatisfied that he had not received as special in 
tation, and because there was no commemora 9 of his father’s political 
services, declined to be present.—Reader, 
21. Chambers’s Encyclopedia.—Parts 94, a ‘96, 97 of this valuable 
Eneyclopedia, extending to RID., have been issued by the American pub- 
lishers, J. P. Lippincott & Co. 
OBITUARY. 
Admiral Wituram Henry Smira.—Admiral Smith died at his resi- 
dence near Aylesbury, Sept. 9th, at the © Se of 77. He had acted as 
nomical observations in his Observatory at Bedford. He also se pebinie 
many works or pence on Geographical and other subjects——From a 
notice in Reader, Sep 
Hees Cummine, Tied in a London, on the 10th of August last, at the 
age of 74. He commenced his journeyings in behalf of natural his- 
* If persons a sO vis he he ee will 
e the result to the Swedish Academy. | 
