400 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
York, in the autumn of 1837. Failing to secure any enco 
ment “frora the national government of hae own country toward 
construction of an experimental line, in 1838 he in vain sought aid — 
or protection of his rights as an inventor in Great Britain and— 
France; and it was only after several years of disappointment and 
poverty that he was gratified by the appropriation of $30,000 by 
the U. 8. Congress (March 4th, 1843), for the purpose of encour 
aging his first attempt to construct a line of tele egraph between 
Washington city and Baltimore, a work which, after many difi- — 
culties, he completed in 1844. 
From that time to this the system of Morse has spread with 
great rapidity, until it now reaches the remotest hamlets of the — 
orth American continent, covering the whole land with its 7 
mote nerves or iron, a nd com mmunicating with all the belie 
eeinal investigations. He was emphatically an inventor, using — 
the discoveries of science to carry out and perfect his inventions — 
Gifted with a far-reaching mind, and indomitable energy, pee: ; 
ferred in — 8 way a great blessing on the human race. 
PicteT DELA Rive, the eminent Swiss physicist died at Geaens 3 
on the ‘oth of Marek: at the age of sixty-tw 4 
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"e =e len, Soci sarep tina no + aati rg mit 6 Tafeln gears 
nee ot Limulus polyphemus, by A. S. Packard, Jr. (Mem. Boston 
flee Soc., Vol. s 
Note sur les Pecnitaasbiiis “ei pera en 1868, avec Binet pour lei are 
antérieurs de 1843 4 1867, ee xis Perrey, Prof. H a Faculté des 
gs (Bull. Ac. Roy. de B ans Febr. 1870. «veg in this 
s Oscillations des Cétes de France, by A. Delesse. Delesse Se eof Frante se 
i el on the coast of Franc: 
s for 
the year 1871 by D D. Honeyman. 88 pp. 8vo. Halifax gon rivet 
Descri tions of some new a of fossils, from the le ‘of the Hudson itl, 
‘ eye a ‘ y es Hall. Publ blished October, 
otes on some new or imperfectly known forms among the ae figures, : 
James — Published March, 1871; reprinted with explanation iz 
March, 18 
> frei ‘of the Phage og ag found in - Cosecnet strata 
E. D. Cope. (Proc. Am. Phil. en ., December, 1871.) 
On the Families 3 Fishes of the Cretaceous of Kansas, by E. D. Cope 
Soc.. January, 1872 <p (trans 
4 Contributions to the Fenttgolegy of the Lesser Antilles, by E. D. Cope. 
hi 
Description of me ‘genus Protostega, a form of extinct weg g 
_ fom Kansas and New Jersey, by E. D. Cope. (Proc. A = 
