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154 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
Tennessee. He received his Medical diploma from the Ohio Medical Col- 
lege, in 1835, after two years’ assiduous devotion to medical studies Im 
Cincinnati. In 1837, he married Miss Caroline Neef, daughter of Joseph 
F. N. Neef, the former associate of Pestalozzi, in Switzerland, and later 
with Mr. William Maclure, in New Harmony. 9 
r. Owen’s responsible labors, as an explorer, commenced in 1837, 
when he took charge of the Geological Reconnoissance of Indiana, per- 
Wisconsin and Minnesota. ts of this Survey appeared in 
uarto volume, in 1852, under the sanction of Congress.¢ ‘This elaborate 
was illustrated by plates of fossils, some of which were ‘ medal- 
his assuming new duties. The first volume, (8vo,) of the Arkansas Re : 
port, appeared in 1858, and the materials for a second volume, were 2 
the printers’ hands, at the time of his death; indeed he continued dicta — 
ting daily, portions of this Report to within three days of his decease. U@ — 
had, in 1859, accepted the offer made him by the Board of Agriculture, for 
the State of Indiana to direct the new Geological Survey of that State, 
with the understanding that the work should be performed by his broth 
er, Dr. R. Owen, until the completion of the Arkansas Survey permitl 
his personal attention to that of Indiana. This work, we understand, 
remains in Dr. R. Owen’s hands. Besides these great and responsi? 
als and Corporations. It is a great satisfaction to know that Sciene? 
* This Journal, [2.] xi, 294. ¢ See this Journal, [2,] xv, 296, xvi, 91. 
t This Journal, [2,] ix, 1850. ; 
§ This Journal, xxil, 272, xxv, 283, 447, xxix, 287. 
