80 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



after much delay, in 18*76, in connection with the Report of an 

 Expedition from Santa Fe to the Junction of the Grand and 

 Green rivers. The volume contains, besides a general report of 

 the Geology of the regions visited, descriptions by F. B. Meek of 

 his Cretaceous fossils, and by himself of the other fossils, includ- 

 ing Carboniferous Brachiopods and fishes, Triassic plants from 

 Abiquiu, New Mexico, and Sonora, Mexico, the figures of the 

 plants occupying five of the eight plates. 



During the Civil War, Dr. Newberry was a member of the 

 Sanitary Commission for the five years following September, 

 1861, and had chief charge of the work of the Commission in 

 the valley of the Mississippi. 



In 1866 Dr. Newberry received the appointment of Professor 

 of Geology at the Columbia College School of Mines. In 1869 he 

 was made State Geologist of Ohio ; and the volumes published on 

 Geology and Paleontology contain much on the stratigraphy of 

 the various parts of the State, by him, but more on the wonderful 

 collections of Fossil Devonian and Carboniferous fishes which the 

 rocks afforded him and on the numerous fossil plants. 



In 1888 Dr. Newberry published, in connection with the United 

 States Geological Survey, a quarto volume of 95 pages and 26 

 plates on the Fossil Fishes and Fossil Plants of the Triassic rocks 

 of New Jersey and the Connecticut Valley ; and in 1889, a similar 

 volume of 228 pages and 53 plates on the Paleozoic Fishes of 

 North America. A Report of like completeness on the Amboy 

 Clays (Cretaceous) of New Jersey was nearly ready for publica- 

 tion two years since, when a stroke of paralysis put an end to his 

 long and most fruitful scientific labors. Besides his larger reports 

 above-mentioned, he published many shorter papers connected 

 with all departments of geology. 



Dr. Newberry was one of the corporate members of the U. S. 

 National Academy of Sciences. He received from the Geological 

 Society of London the Murchison medal in 1888. From 1867 

 until recently he was President of the New York Academy of 

 Sciences. He was a man of great excellence of character. While 

 deeply devoted to Science and an earnest worker, he was yet will- 

 ing to give up several years to the superintendence of Soldiers' 

 hospitals at the time of his country's need. 



Dr. Newberry leaves a widow and six children. One of his 

 five sons is a professor in Cornell University. 



Sir Richard Owen, the eminent zoologist and comparative 

 anatomist, died in London on December 18th. He was born in 

 1804 and hence his active life almost spanned the century now 

 closing ; more than fifty years have passed since he was made 

 Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at the College of Surgeons. 

 His many contributions to science brought him distinguished 

 honors from the highest sources and are too well known by all 

 interested to need to be rehearsed here. 



