429 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
nie, M. Inst. C. E., F. R. Met. Soc., F.G.S. 
sire to receive copies of records of rainfall extending from as 
ters; that the name of the observer and the Py of ob 
inni i all, Bradford, ¥ ork- 
. Monument to the great Paleontologist, Barrande.—No more 
faithful or successful worker in Paleontology has lived than Bar-— 
rande. Subscriptions to a monument to his memory will be for- 
warded by Professor A. Hyatt, Technological Institute, Boston. 
OBITUARY. 
Stenor QurntINo SEtxa, President of the R. Accademia dei 
Lyncei, of Rome, and for many years Minister of Finance 12 
Italy, died on the 14th of March. His scientific researches were 
chiefly in crystallographic mineralogy, in which department his 
papers are of the highest excellence. His able statesmanship se 
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address at a memorial session of the Chamber of Deputies, 
connects his name with three great achievements in the recent 
progress of his nation: “La restaurazione finanziaria della 
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ties has appropriated 20,000 dollars for a monument to his memory- 
A letter from Mr. T, McKenny Hughes, in Nature of Mare 27, 
“it is proposed to place a bronze wreath on the tomb of the 
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small subscription. 
