338 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
Correspondence should be addressed to the Managing sage cose 
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Collegio Romano, Rome. Information may also be obtained at 
the office of the English Monthly Review, Minerva, 56 Piazza 
Montecitorio, Rot 
The President of the Italian Geographical Society is Prince Di 
Teano, and t ief Secretary, alla Vedova, 
6. ILilinois gas Laboratory of Natural History. srualloa 
No. 3, consisting of 160 pages 8vo, contains the resu 
tended personal observations by Mr. S. A. Forbes, occupying 130 
pages, on the food of fishes and birds, besides netes, by the same, 
on Insectivorous Coleoptera; and also a paper by F. ™M: Wenster, 
on the food of predaceous beetles 
Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of A. Agassiz, in the 
Cutobont Sea, 1878-79, along the Atlantic coast of the United States during the 
summer of sete: by the’ nited States Coast Survey steamer “ Blake,” Commander 
3. N., anding. Two reports have re ecently b een published 
(Dec. 1880) i in vol. viii ‘of Che Bulletin of ne Museum of Comparative Zoology 0 of 
Harvard College: Etudes préliminaires sur les Crustacés, par M. Alph. Milne- 
Edwards, vs partie, i " oa 68, eo plates; the other, yn Preliminary Report 
by A. A 
Bulle of the Buffalo tes of ‘Nara Sciences, vol. iii, } No, 5, contains, 
tuakes a an is icoorias archeological paper, a description of a new igs ulus by D. 
8. Kellicott, and a new Check-list of N. A. Sphingide, by A. R. Gro 
OBITUARY. 
Dr. Joun J. Braspy, F.R.S., founder of the Bigsby — of 
the Geological Society, died at Gloucester nti on the 10th 
of February, at the age of eighty-eight. Dr. B igsby was oie a 
resident of Canada, and a ver Boe ot contributor on geological 
subjects to this Journal. His t article appeared in the second 
The Flora and Fauna of the Silurian Period,” and in 1878, just 
three = since, his “ Thesaurus Devonico-Carboniferus : The 
Flora and Fauna “of the Devonian and Carboniferous Periods. 
th seek involved a vast amount of labor, and evinced that 
his energies and his interest in his favorite science continued long 
after the time when most men begin to rest from their wo 
Professor E. Bortoxy, of Prague, eminent in mineralogy and 
lithology, and the author of several valuable memoirs on the 
igneous rocks of Bohemia, died on the 27th of January at the age 
or 
Professor James oe long connected with King’s College, 
London, and well as an active eine of minerals Is and 
gems, died ae ab "the age of seventy-t 
Mr. Josep A, Cray,'a successful am ateer mine eralogist and a 
prominent upon t of the Philadelphia bar, died on March 18th, 
in his seventy-fifth year. 
