160 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
and in all probability influenced the state of his health. Among 
these works were synopses of the Mollusca of the east coast of 
North America, and of the Crustacea of both coasts, to be pub- 
lished by the Smithsonian Institution.—X., in Harper’s Weekly. 
The meeting of the Chicago Academy of June 11th was devoted 
to addresses in memory of Dr. Stimpson by the President and 
other members. We cite the following paragraph from the re 
marks of Mr. E. W. Blatchford : : 
“T am reminded, Mr. President, that this is the second time m 
the brief history of our Academy that we have been called upon 
to mourn the loss of a secretary. ey were both men of marked 
characters, of marked differences. In the scientific world they 
were typical men—the one of our young West, 
maturer East—the one of the undeveloped fields afforded by our 
investigated Atlantic slope, and foreign field of scientific research. 
Differing, however, in early opportunities and training, in subse- 
quent associations, and in the fields of their investigations, Kennr 
cott and Stimpson were yet one; one in high aims, one in entht- 
each called away. To the one the summons came in the Arcti¢ 
regions, upon the banks of the Youkan: to the other in the tropics, 
upon the banks of that wider, deeper stream, the study of whose 
mysteries had lured him on in spite of pain and weakness. Al 
ready are the foundations laid and the walls rising of our neW 
ations to these men, whose lives have been consecrated to laying 
fo the foundations of scientific truth.” ; 
Mr. Roser Swirt, of Philadelphia, died on the 5th of May, 4 
the seventy-seventh year of his age r. Swift from 1852 labore 
much in West Indian Conchology, and in 1863 published his “ Re- 
searches of the Virgin Islands.” “He also contributed, through col- 
lections made at his expense on St. Thomas and Porto Rico, to the 
ornithological collections of the Smithsonian Institution, on which 
a report was made by Dr. Bryant of Boston. : 
GroreE Rosert Gray, an eminent British ornithologist, and 
Assistant Keeper of Zoology in the British Museum, died on the 
6th of May last. He was born in July, 1808. 
