Obituary. 155 
ane volume embraces a Report by Leo Lesquereux, ny 4 on the dis- 
tribution of the coal of India na, with sections of the Coal measures, 
and “i senabie information as he was able to bathe in a few weeks 
reconnoissan 
Prof. ealee ‘also reports on ie topography and geology of the Can- 
nelton coal basin in Perry Cou 
Prof. Lesquereux expresses the opinion (p. 285) that the mineral oil 
Which is now pumped out in la arge quantities from different places on 
borders of the coal- fields, is mostly derived from the coal-seam 1 
OBITUARY. 
1. Jamzs Atrrep Pzarce, U. §S, Senator from Maryland, died at his 
residence j in eoestertonn on the 20th of pocemiber, Oia of a lingering 
illn He was of the 
ered. He was not only active in the matters where the interests 
the Smithsonian Tostitution were at stake in Congress, er gave his time 
freely gent of the Institution and a member of the Executive 
Dirtdiines of the Regents. A well trained sind oui him to grasp 
ily these ei other tes especially of a literary and scientific 
to ss his conclusions in well turned and effective sentences, 
With a carefully sistnind logic, and with a-glowing warmth which pro- 
duced conviction n his hearers. His intercourse with our scientific and 
7 men he resided in or visited Nis ee will be “— remem- 
Hoof a shell, at the age of a na rac at Whitehall, North abs 
lina, was the author of a ‘aleabte paper on the Carbonates of the no 
eayds, published in our last volume, and of other ap fit contri 
BS to chemical science. He graduated at Columbia College, N. Y., in 
; teint a year with Dr. Gibbs at the Free Hien and 
in Ge ermany as a chemical student, acquiring there the degree . 
of hate in Philosophy. 
See bis Section in this ee xxxiii, p. 120. 
