336 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



Laura 0. Talbot: Industrial Education. 



C. W. Smiley : A Plan for a census of Fisheries. 



J. R. Dodge: Inutility of the Desert Land Act. 



W. F. Gorton: Scientific and Economic means of protecting life by Signal 

 lights. 



R. W. Phipps: How shall we protect our forests? 



E. Atkinson: Scientific application of heat to the cooking of food. 



C. M. Woodward: Relation of Manual training to body and mind. 



C. S. Hill: On the economic and sociologic relations of Canada and the 

 United States. 



OBITUARY. 



Giuseppe Meneghini. — An announcement of the death of Pro- 

 fessor Meneghini in January last appeared in the last volume of 

 this Journal. Born in Padua in July, 1811, he died at Pisa 

 where he had passed forty years of his life " the admiration," 

 says Professor Capellini, " of scholars, of friends, and of the 

 city;" and by the decree of the city, he was buried in the monu- 

 mental Campo Santo, by the side of Paolo Savi. 



Professor Meneghini's first scientific investigations were botani- 

 cal. Their publication commenced in 1834; and until 1849 his 

 work was chiefly in that department. Soon after this date ap- 

 peared his first paper on the Geology and Paleontology of Tus- 

 cany, and subsequently his work was almost exclusively pale- 

 ontological ; and in his many memoirs he covered nearly all 

 departments of zoology. In 1857 was published his report on the 

 Paleontology of Sardinia, in the "Voyage en Sardaigne " of 

 General A. De la Marmora, and from 1867 to 1881, monographs 

 on fossils, in the " Paleontologic Lombarde " of Stoppani. The 

 last of his numerous publications was a memoir, in 1 888, on the 

 Cambrian Fauna of Iglesiente in Sardinia, in which he describes 

 the Cambrian Trilobites and illustrates them with seven plates of 

 figures. 



In 1849, Meneghini was made Professor of Mineralogy and 

 Geology in the University of Pisa, his connection with the Uni- 

 versity of Padua having been cancelled in 1848, for political 

 reasons. In 1874, the chair was divided, the department of 

 mineralogy being given to Professor D'Achiardi, leaving to him 

 that of geology. He was President of the " Societa Toscana di 

 Scienze Naturali " from its foundation until 1874; also of the 

 "Societa Malacologica Italiana," of the Geological Society of 

 Italy, and of the Comitato Geologico. 



In 1884, the fiftieth anniversary of the commencement of his 

 career as instructor, a gold medal was struck in commemoration, 

 at the expense of contributors all over the scientific world. In 

 1886 he was made Senator — an honor well-merited, says Professor 

 Seguenza, in view of the positions he held, his academic honors 

 and his scientific labors. 



George H. Cook, the able Geologist of the State of New 

 Jersey, and Professor in Rutgers College, died on the 2 2d of 

 September at the age of seventy-two. 



