Miscellaneous Intelligence. 435 
2, Contributions to the Archeology of Missouri (30 pp. 4to.) 
by the Archeological Section of the St. Louis Academy of Sei- 
ence. Part 1, Pottery, 30 pp. 4to, with 23 plates.—This valu- 
able and well-illustrated contribution to archeology consists of 
two memoirs: one, a general sketch of the archeological remains 
in southeastern Missouri by W. B. Porrer; the other, on the an- 
cient pottery of the same region, by Dr. Epwarp Evers, in which 
the large number and often quite artistic forms represented in the 
plates are treated of as to locality, conditions of occurrence, and 
other particulars. 
3. Spectroscopic Notes by Professor Young.—In this article, in 
the 8th line from the top of page 358, the letter Y should be G. 
OBITUARY. 
Professor Bensamin Perrce, LL.D., F.R.S., Perkins Professor 
of Astronomy and Mathematics at Harvard University, died at 
father and mother were both distinguished for their acuteness 
of mind, and his instructor, Nathaniel Bowditch, predicted that 
1849 
Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, for which he prepared his 
upon Congress the duty of effectually reorganizing and pushing 
forward the work so much retarded by, the civil war. He was 
free from class distinctions, and to which he would never be 
elected in the higher class of fellows but was a member only. 
He contributed very largely to make the American Academy 0 
Boston what it is, and throughout the whole of the scientific 
literature of the past fifty years Peirce’s name frequently occurs 
as a contributor upon mathematical and physical topics. In his 
works, The teaching at Harvard is based upon his methods and 
notation, and these methods are models of perspicuity and ele- 
gance. In physical astronomy perhaps his greatest works were 
