416 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
m. A. Norton.—The death of Professor Norton, of the Shef- 
field ‘Scientific School in Yale College, is announced on page 332 
of this volame. As the principal portion of his contributions to 
statement of their character and extent. =a earliest memoir was in 
the 46th volume of the first series, and was on the mode of forma- 
tion of tails of comets. The manner of ation of a solar repulsion 
in producing the comets’ tails was developed at length. Some of 
the ideas, though original with Professor Norton, had been antici- 
pated by. Olbers and Bessel. A series of papers followed upon 
the relations between the distribution of heat on the earth and 
the “Sane eine of terrestrial magnetism. 
From these he was led on to further discussion of magnetic 
action over the earth, and of like action, as he argued, in the body 
of the sun and in the formation of the comas and tails of comets. 
These papers included especially an elaborate discussion of the 
famous comet of 185 
After this followed a series of papers on molecular physics, in 
which, Hoarding from a few elementary onan he arran nged 
Professor of Natural and ees etal Philoso y 
resigned from the army, and accepted a similar position 1m the 
whos ep of the City of New Yo rward con 
nected with Delaware College at laware, first 
Professor and then as President, and subsequently with Brown 
University at Providence, Rhode nd, as Professor of Natural » 
Philosophy and Civil Engineering. Since 1852 he has been Pro- 
fessor of Engin eres in the Sheffield Scientific School, and oe 
Sci 
1873 a member of the National Academy o ences. “t 
mencing his we at the Sheffield Scientific School pe 
consisted of but two professors besides’ himself, he » contribute 
largely, by his "taithtel labors and excellent judgment, to its 
Seeeibpnaen and success, i] 
swaLp Herr, the distinguished author of works on foss 
hati: and the most prominent of srehoees er “3 aaa 7 
died at Lausanne on the 27th of Septe 
ie pero BarRAnDE, the eminent oP et died in Octo- 
at Prague, in his 84th year, 
