506 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



vantages necessary to successful instruction. The faculty include 

 Dr. M. E. Wadswoeth, Director and Professor of mineralogy, 

 petrography and geology ; R. L. Packard, A.M., Professor of 

 chemistry, and R. M. Edwards, E.M., Professor of mining and 

 engineering. Dr. Wadsworth has recently been made State Geol- 

 ogist of Michigan. 



Die Regen-Verhaltnisse des Russischen Reiches, von H. Wild, mit seriem atlas; 

 Supplement band zum Repertorium fiir Meteorologie, herausg. Kais. Acad. Wiss. 

 St. Petersburg, 1887. 



Nomenclator Floras Danicce, Auctore Job.. Lange, 354 pp. 4to, Leipsic, 1887 

 (F. A. Brockhaus). 



The International Scientist's Directory of 1888, compiled and published by S. 

 L. Casino, Boston, and just issued, contains complete lists of the geologists of 

 Europe with their addresses, and also of other men of science. It is a very con- 

 venient volume for students in all departments of science. 



The Manual Training School, comprising a full statement of its aims, methods 

 and results, with figured drawings of shop exercises in woods and metals ; by C. 

 M. Woodward, A.B. (Harvard) Ph.D. Boston, 1887 (D. C. Heath & Co.)— 

 Industrial Instruction : a pedagogic and social necessity, together with a Critique 

 upon objections advanced ; by R. Seidel, Mollis, Switzerland. Transl. by Mar- 

 garet K. Smith, State Normal School, Oswego, New York. 160 pp. 12mo. 

 Boston, 1887 (D. C. Heath & Co.) 



The above are two valuable works ; the first one of great importance to the 

 scholars of a training school or for self- training. 



A Treatise on Alcohol with tables of spirit gravities, by Thomas Stevenson, 

 M.D., London. 2d edition. 74 pp. 12mo, London, 1888. (Gurney & Jackson.) 



Introductory Text-book of Geology by David Page, LL.D:, F.G.S., revised 

 and in great part re-written by C. Lapworth, LL.D., F.G.S., Prof. Geol. and 

 Pysiogr., Mason College, Birmingham, 12th edit., 316 pp., 12mo. Edinburgh and 

 London, 1888. (Win. Blackwood & Sons.) 



OBITUARY. 



Gkrhard vom Rath, Professor of Mineralogy at the Univer- 

 sity of Bonn, died on the 23d of April. He was born August 20, 

 1830, so that his life is cut off prematurely, and yet through his 

 indefatigable energy and enthusiasm the amount of scientific 

 work which he accomplished was truly remarkable. His inaugural 

 dissertation, on the composition of the scapolites, was published in 

 1853 (Poggendorff's Annalen, vol. 1) and from that time on he 

 was never idle. There are but few important mineral species to 

 our knowledge of which he has not contributed. The most 

 intricate problems in crystallography were those in which he took 

 most pleasure, and to his clear mind the complete twinning laws 

 of the triclinic feldspars, the obscure distorted forms of gold and 

 silver, and a host of similar problems presented no difficulty ; and 

 his skillful hand was always equal to the task of representing the 

 forms on paper. A son-in-law of Gustav Rose, he was a worthy 

 follower in his footsteps in the character and scope of his labors. 

 He was a great traveler, especially dui'ing the later years of his 

 life, and many are the papers he has written, mostly scientific, 

 but others more popular, giving the results of his observations in 

 Greece, Palestine, Mexico, the western United States, and other 

 regions. Professor vom Rath had a most charmingly genial dis- 

 position, and a wide circle of friends, by no means limited to 

 Germany, will mourn his too early death. 



