498 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
ee gee ue first et gen sketch map of the great. 
c basins, as well a ords and eo of tempera- 
‘ies and curr ade wherever week were feas 
These immense collections were sent fone from time to time, 
abe on the return of the expedition the working up of the whole 
erial was entrusted to its scientific director, Sir 
Chaties Wyville Thomson. He selected as his assistants the ‘best 
and three volumes of the sonlGey have already ite al Un- 
ee 
lished, le the title of “The Atlantic. 2 he material for the 
other intended volumes on the Pacific and the Southern ocean 
exist Only 3 in the form of notes, and in the sketch of the results of 
the “Challenger” éxpedition, given by Thomson in his address 
as President of the eS as Section of the British Associa- 
tion at its Dublin meetin 
The death of such a man at a comparatively early age, before 
he had time to gather in the harvest he had so fairly won, is not 
only sad in itself but is a great loss to science. His extensive 
and exact knowledge in many fields of biology would have ena- 
bled him to put Be red the varied results of his expedition as. 
no one else can 
Thomson was a , er favorite, beloved not only by his col- 
eee vt ed his students who flocked to his lectures. Natural 
History w erhaps never more popular Mees while he held the 
; professorship, which had been occupied in turn by Jamieson, 
‘orbes Iman. His relations with his ee associates 
were always frank and ip nid and those who had t ood for- 
tune to meet him parted from him not only as from an aol friend, 
but also with sincere admiration for his character and sagen ive 
attainments. AG. 
eneral Joun G. Barnarp, of the Department of Engineers, 
U.S. Army, died on the 14th of May. General Barnard was a 
able mathematician, and the author of papers on Projectiles, thé 
Gyroscope, the Tides and sala subjects. 
eee HEATLEY, Of Phenixville, Sage? ikea Min- 
ing Engine tie d on the 6th of May. Mr. Wheatley’s dis- 
coveries a: a Saurian bone-bed near Phenixville i in ie Mesozoic 
shales of the region, and of a Quaternary Cave in n Eastern Penn- 
sylvania bicoaans a bones of the Mastodon, Megalonyx and other 
extinct species, were of the highest interest to American geology. 
mam S. rie x died at Philadelphia on the 5th of ie 
Mr. Vaux used his wealth largely for scientific purposes. 
gathered one of the finest collections of minerals in the countr a 
and besides a large archeological collection. Among his bequests, 
there is one of $10,000 to the Academy of Natural Sciences, an 
another, of his Collection of Etruscan Pottery, to the Pennsylvania 
: Museum and School of Industrial Art. 
