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an ps pokey Memoir of the late Professor 8. S. Haldeman, 
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Ne ae determined line of the Terminal Moraine across Penn- 
sylvania, J. P. Lesley. 
An Elementary Treatise Sg Poa ge ps JAMES CLERK MAXWELL, M.A 
dited by WILLIAM GARNE . 8vo, with 6 plates. Oxford, 1881) 
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4to. Oxford, 1881. (Clarendon Press.) 
OBITUARY, 
Mr. Rospert Matter, F.R.S., long known oe his valuable 
ot on  hehdaakes and volcanoes, died on the fifth of 
November, at the age of seventy-one. Mr. Mall ett was born in 
Dublin on June 8, 1810. He qualified himself early in life as an 
engineer, and for a number of years was actively engaged in the 
k of his profession. His taste for scientific study led him also 
to spend much time in study and research, and in 1846 his first 
paper on ian Sv phenomena was ae in the lsat? h- 
a 
until the end of his life his scientific activity did not cease, 
although daeitis his later years he was afflicted with almost total 
blindness. Altogether he was the ce or of more than seventy 
memoirs, besides several separately published works. These 
memoirs relate st part the phe na arth- 
the student of these subjects; in fact the subjects may be said to 
have been, in many respects, developed by him. mong the 
pate important of his scientific contributions may be mentioned 
e Earthquake Catalogue completed, with the aid of his son 
(Professor W. Mallet, of Virginia), in 1858; also the memoir 
containing his observations on the eapolitan earthquake pub- 
lished in two volumes, in 1862, in which for the first time he laid 
down the method of studying such phenomena; and still again 
upon them, on nthe amount of heat produced by the sae hes 
different kinds of rocks; the centers reached, in regard to the 
probable mechanical ree of much of the heat road in 
m orphic action and volcanic phainens. have exerted a wide 
influence, and their importance can hardly be overestimated. 
(The facts erates in this notice are mostly taken from Mature 
of December 1.) 
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