168 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



Vermont has given to the collections made by him a value that 

 places him amongst the contributors to the advancement of 

 American paleontology. c. d. w. 



Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay, Director-General of the Geo- 

 logical Survey of Great Britain from l»7l to the close of 1881, 

 died on the 9th of December, 189 L. His various geological in- 

 vestigations gave him high rank among geologists, and brought 

 him many honors. He was elected President of the Geological 

 Society in 1862, and President of the British Association in 1880, 

 and was knighted in 1881, when, on account of the condition of 

 his health, he resigned his connection with the Geological Survey. 

 As a biographical notice in Nature by his successor in the Survey 

 writes, " the news of his death will carry regret into the hearts 

 of many men of science all over the world." The notice, in its 

 closing paragraph, portrays, as follows, a side of his character 

 not well known in America. 



" There was in Sir Andrew Ramsay such simplicity and frank- 

 ness that men of the most diverse natures were attracted to him, 

 and as they came to know him more intimately, the gaiety and 

 kindheartedness of his disposition attached them to him in the 

 closest friendship. Fond of literature, and glad to relieve the 

 pressure of his scientific work by excursions into the literary field, 

 he had acquired a range of knowledge and of taste which gave 

 a special interest to his conversation. Now and then he found 

 time to write an article for the Saturday Review in which this 

 literary side of his nature would find scope for its exercise. But 

 the daily grind of the official treadmill left him all too little time 

 for such diversions. His death removes from our midst one of 

 the foremost geologists of our day, and from the friends who 

 knew him in his prime, a large-hearted, lovable man, whose 

 memory they will cherish till they too pass away. 



Dr. Ferdinand von Rgemer, Professor of Geology and Pale- 

 ontology in the University of Breslau, and long an able and active 

 laborer in these departments, died at Breslau, on the 14th of De- 

 cember, in his seventy-fourth year. He made an honorable record 

 for himself in American science by his excellent memoirs on the 

 paleontology of Texas and Tennessee : Die Kreidebildungen von 

 Texas und ihre organischen Einschliisse, 1852, and Die Silurische 

 Fauna des westlichen Tennessee, 1860, each about 100 pages in 

 quarto, with descriptions of a large number of species and admir- 

 able figures on many plates. 



Dr. Rcemer's Jubilee as Professor was to have been celebrated 

 on the 10th of next May. 



