Samuel Lewis Penfield, Professor of Mineralogy in the 

 Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, died August 12, 

 at Woodstock, Conn., where he had been passing the summer. 

 He was in the 51st year of his age. He had been for some time 

 in bad health. A notice of the life and work of this distin- 

 guished mineralogist will appear in a near number of this 

 Journal. 



