414 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



Index to the Reports of the Chief of Engineers, U. S, A., 1880-1887. 622 pp. 



The topography of Florida by N. S. Shaler, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoo!., Cambridge, 

 vol. xvi. No. 7. 1890. 



Studies on Lepidosteus, by E. L. Mark; 128 pp. 8vo, with nine fine plates. 

 Ibid., vol. xix, No. 1, 1890. 



History of Niagara River, by G. K. Gilbert. 24 pp. 8vo. Ann. Rep. Comm. 

 State Reserv. Niagara for 1889. 



Physical History of the Boston Basin, by W. 0. Crosby. Boston, 1889. 



Geology of the Lassen Peak District ; by J. S. Diller. 8th Ann. Rep. Direc- 

 tor U. S. Geol. Survey. 32 pp. large 8vo. 1889. 



Fossil Butterflies of Florissant; by S. H. Scudder, ibid. 32 pp. 8vo. 1889. — 

 Mr. Scudder here describes and figures several new species, making the number 

 from Florissant seven, which is nearly half of all the fossil species known. 



Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College, Eld ward C. Pick- 

 ering, Director, vol. xxii: Meteorological Observations made on the summit of 

 Pike's Peak (the height 14,434 feet), Colorado, Jan., 1874, to Jan., 1888, under 

 the direction of the Chief Signal Officer, U. S. A., 470 pp. 4to. 



Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences. — Vol. iv ; Part 2, just issued 

 contains Contributions to Meteorology by E. Loomis (pp. 7-79); on the determi- 

 nation of Elliptic Orbits from three observations, by J. Wiflard Gibbs; the tem- 

 perature of the moon, by S. P. Langley ; the Lucayan Indians, by W. K. Brooks. 



Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. n, Nos. 3, 4, con- 

 tains several papers on new or described mammals of America, by F. M. Chapman; 

 Birds and Mammals, by J. A. Allen; Mammals of New Mexico, by E. A. Mearns. 



Richard Owen. — Professor Richard Owen died suddenly, at 

 New Harmony, Indiana, on the 31st of March. He was born in 

 Lanarkshire, Scotland in 1810 and was nearly three years younger 

 than his brother, David Dale Owen, who died about 30 years 

 since. I With his father and brother, he came to New Harmony 

 in 1828. He served under General Zachary Taylor, as captain in 

 the Mexican war, during the years 1847-48. In 1849 he joined 

 his brother in the geological survey oi Minnesota, and also 

 became Professor of the Natural Sciences at Nashville; and 

 while there, in 1857, published "A Key to the Geology of the 

 Globe." In 1859, he was associated with his brother in the sur- 

 vey of Indiana, the report on which by him, appeared in 1862, 

 after the death of his brother, and also after his having joined in 

 the Civil War. During the year 1861, he was made Lieutenant 

 Colonel of the 15th Indiana Volunteers, and in the autumn of 

 that year colonel of the 60th regiment. In November of 1865 he 

 resigned his commission as colonel at New Iberia, Louisiana (as 

 stated in volume xlii of this Journal, 1866), and having heard of 

 the rock salt deposit of La Petite Anse, 12 miles distant, went 

 and investigated it, and made the first report on it to the 

 Academy of Sciences at St. Louis. In 1865, he became Professor 

 of the Natural Sciences in the Western Military Institute of .►Ken- 

 tucky (afterward, changed to the University of Nashville), and 

 held the position until the autumn of 1879. Professor Owen also 

 devoted himself in later years to meteorology. 



Professor Owen's Key to the Geology of the Globe, of 1857, 

 exhibits the man in his science, which while practical, tended 

 strongly toward the speculative, and also in his relations to 

 young students, who, from his deep interest in them, drew out 

 some pages of advice on temperance and other virtues. 



