490 | Miscellaneous Intelligence. : 
3. Signal Service Professional Papers.—The following papers 
have been issued by the Signal Service. No. VIII. The motions 
of fluids and solids on the earth’s surface, by Professor Wu. FEr- 
REL, reprinted with notes by Frank Waldo.—No. IX. Charts and 
‘Tables showing geographical distribution of rain-fall in the United 
States, based on observations from the establishment of the Mete- 
orological Bureau of the Signal Service, in 1870 to January, 1881, 
by H. H. C. Dunwoopy, Ist Lieut. 4th Artillery, acting signal 
officer.—No. XI. Meteorological and Physical Observations on 
the East Coast of British America, by O. T. Sazrman.—No.’ XI. 
Popular Essays on the Movements of the Atmosphere, by Pro- 
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fessor Wa. FERREL. 
OBITUARY. 
several papers on Botany and Zoology. Doctor LeConte’s labors 
in science were devoted especially to the Coleoptera, in whic 
department he made very large collections, and was high 
authority. He is the author also of some mineralogical a 
rica 
Leonarp D. Garx.—Dr. Leonard D. Gale died in Washington 
on October 22, in his eighty-fourth year. He was graduated 
from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in New York City, 
in 1830, and was soon afterward employed as Assistant Professor 
of Chemistry in that institution. His name is connected with 
chemical papers in this Journal for 1831 and 1832. Later he was_ 
Professor of Chemistry in the New York College of Pharmacy, 
and Professor of Chemistry, Geology, and Mineralogy 1? the 
University of New York. While holding the latter position, 1» 
1834, he rendered important aid to his fellow-Professor, S. F. B. 
Morse, in the perfection of the electric telegraph, bringing to er 
knowledge the discoveries of Professor Henry, the application © 
which to the Morse machine assured its success. In 1838, 
Gale made a geological survey of New York island, and a report 
of his work is published in the New York Geological Report 
(4to, 1843) of Professor Mather. From 1846 to 1857 he bebe 
an Examiner of Patents, having charge of the Department © 
Chemistry, and was afterward for many years engaged 1n the 
practice of patent law in Washington. } 
