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in their original places of publication they are practically inac- 

 cessible to all those who have not a large library at hand. Even 

 to those so fortunately situated the convenience of having a small, 

 compact, inexpensive volume in hand, which can be used with per- 

 fect freedom and without fear of injury, is very great. The series 

 should be on the shelves of every working physicist and in every 

 physical and chemical laboratory. 



The six numbers last issued are as follows : 



Nos. 31, 32, 33. Lambert's Photometrie (H60), Theil I and II, III-V, VI and 



vn. 



No. 34. Photochemische Untersuchungen von E. Bunsen und H. E. Roscoe 

 (1855-1859): Erste Halfte. 



No. 35. Versuch die bestimmten und einfachen Verhaltuisse aufzufinden nach 

 welchen die Bestandtheile der unorganischer Natur mit einander verbunden sind 

 von Jacob Berzelius (1811-1812). 



No. 36. Ueber ein allgemeines Princip der Mathematischen Theorie inducirter 

 elektrischer Strome von Franz Neumann (1847). 



No. 37. Betrachtungen uber die bewegende Kraft des Feuers und die zur Ent- 

 wickelung dieser Kraft geeigneter Maschinen von S. Carnot (1824). 



7. Royal Society of London. — Professor H. A. Newton of 

 Yale University, New Haven, has recently been elected a foreign 

 member of the Royal Society. 



OBITUARY. 



John Strong Newberry, Professor of Geology in Columbia 

 University, New York City, died on the 7th of December, having 

 nearly reached the 70th anniversary of his birthday. He was 

 born, on the 22d of December at Windsor, Connecticut, gradu- 

 ated at Western Reserve College in 1846, and at the Cleveland 

 Medical School in 1848, and began the practice of medicine at 

 Cleveland, Ohio, in 1851. In 1855 he commenced his labors in 

 geology, the science to which, in connection with its fellow- 

 science, paleontology, he devoted the chief part of his remaining 

 years. He received that year an appointment of Geologist and 

 Botanist of the expedition sent out by the government under 

 Lieutenant Williamson to explore the region on the Pacific be- 

 tween San Francisco and the Columbia River ; and the 6th vol- 

 ume of the Government Reports on a "Practicable Route for a 

 Railroad to the Pacific," published in 1857, contains the results of 

 his work. In 1857 and 1858 he was engaged in exploring the 

 Colorado River on the expedition under Lieutenant Ives. The 

 party ascended the river in a steamer for 500 miles from its 

 mouth and brought back grand views of the wonderful scenery 

 of the canon, then for the first time explored for the illustration 

 of his excellent Geological Report, as well as for that of the Com- 

 mander of the Expedition. Again in 1859 he was geologist 

 of the government expedition under Captain Macomb, which ex- 

 plored the country of the San Juan and Upper Colorado, and 

 thus had an opportunity for the geological study of part of 

 Utah, Northern Arizona and New Mexico. His report appeared, 



