304 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



In 18*75 he went to Pensacola, Florida, and there became asso- 

 ciated with his brother-in-law, Mr. A. F. Warren, in business. 

 But he began there also his study of fishes and other species of 

 the waters ; and through his various excursions he became famil- 

 iar with all the ins and outs of the coast from Pensacola to Key 

 West. In 1878 he visited the Smithsonian Institution, and by 

 his thorough and exact knowledge with regard to the fishes of 

 the Gulf, their habits and their economic value, he attracted spe- 

 cial attention from Profe'ssor Baird, Mr. Goode and others. The 

 following year he spent at Waterville, Me., in classical studies at 

 the Academy, for the benefit they might be to him as regards 

 scientific nomenclature — showing thereby that earnestness and 

 energy of character which was an assurance of future success and 

 honor. Failing health compelled him to return to Florida, and in 

 1880 he became a special agent of the U. S. Fish Commission, 

 and also of the U. S. Census Bureau, in charge of investigations 

 of the marine industries of the Gulf of Mexico. His reports show 

 that his work was performed with accuracy and fidelity. From 

 this time his contributions to the Fish Commission became nu- 

 merous and large, as the Annual Reports of the Commission show. 

 Upwards of fifty new species of fishes were discovered by him or 

 through his help, embracing much of what is known of the deep- 

 water fishes of the Gulf; and four of the species — of the genera 

 Lutjanus, Scorpsena, Blennius and Prionotus — bear his name. 

 During these years in Florida naturalists investigating the fauna 

 of the Gulf of Mexico have had his untiring aid, and most 

 of them were guests under his roof and sailed in his boats 

 on their collecting tours. They found in him a generous and 

 most estimable friend. 



In 1886 Mr. Stearns was married to Miss Hays, of St. George, 

 Maine. He leaves no children. david stare joedan. 



K. Clausius. — Professor Clausius, the great mathematician 

 and physicist, died on the 24th of August in his 67th year. His 

 death takes away one of the world's deepest thinkers, the value 

 of whose contributions to physical science cannot be overesti- 

 mated. The present development of thermodynamics is due to 

 a large extent to his labors, in which field his investigations 

 were numerous and profound. His w^ork extended also over 

 other branches of mathematical physics. His published papers 

 number considerably over a hundred. He was also a most suc- 

 cessful teacher and since 1869 has been a center of attraction at 

 the University of Bonn. 



Richaed A. Peoctoe. — Professor Proctor, the English astron- 

 omer, died on the 12th September in his 52d year. He has been 

 best known as a lecturer and popular writer upon astronomical 

 and kindred subjects. 



Philip Hexey Gosse, F.R.S., the eminent English zoologist, 

 died on the 27th of August in his seventy-ninth year. 



M. Hexei Debeay, the French chemist, died on the 19th of 

 July, in his sixty-first year. 



