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  Scientific 
  Intelligence. 
  

  

  etc 
  v 
  proving 
  that 
  he 
  had 
  successfully 
  performed 
  at 
  Moffat 
  the 
  

   double 
  feat 
  of 
  working 
  out 
  the 
  succession 
  by 
  means 
  of 
  the 
  struc- 
  

   ture, 
  and 
  the 
  structure 
  by 
  the 
  succession. 
  The 
  success 
  of 
  his 
  

   own 
  graptolite 
  work 
  and 
  the 
  keenness 
  with 
  which 
  it 
  was 
  being 
  

   followed 
  up 
  by 
  young 
  observers, 
  led 
  him 
  to 
  propose 
  a 
  new 
  clas- 
  

   sification 
  of 
  the 
  Rhabdophora, 
  and 
  to 
  contemplate 
  a 
  monograph 
  

   on 
  the 
  Order. 
  This 
  has 
  now 
  been 
  completed 
  by 
  Miss 
  Elles 
  and 
  

   Mrs. 
  Shakespear 
  under 
  his 
  guidance 
  and 
  editorship. 
  

  

  "Asa 
  great 
  teacher 
  Lapworth 
  earnestly 
  desired 
  to 
  equip 
  his 
  

   students 
  to 
  take 
  their 
  share 
  in 
  furthering 
  the 
  advance 
  of 
  science 
  

   and 
  to 
  remove 
  anything 
  that 
  could 
  retard 
  its 
  progress. 
  It 
  was 
  

   only 
  fitting 
  that 
  the 
  man 
  who 
  had 
  stilled 
  the 
  Lowland 
  contro- 
  

   versy, 
  and 
  wrested 
  its 
  secret 
  from 
  the 
  Highlands, 
  should 
  give 
  

   the 
  law 
  in 
  the 
  'Silurian' 
  controversy 
  and 
  make 
  the 
  opponents 
  

   sink 
  their 
  differences 
  by 
  the 
  adoption 
  of 
  his 
  term 
  ' 
  Ordovician. 
  ' 
  ' 
  ' 
  

  

  John 
  Alfred 
  Brashear, 
  widely 
  known 
  for 
  his 
  work 
  in 
  the 
  

   manufacture 
  of 
  astronomical 
  and 
  physical 
  instruments, 
  died 
  at 
  

   his 
  home 
  in 
  Pittsburgh 
  on 
  April 
  8 
  in 
  his 
  eightieth 
  year. 
  

  

  Sir 
  Thomas 
  P. 
  Anderson 
  Stuart, 
  professor 
  of 
  physiology 
  in 
  

   the 
  University 
  of 
  Sydney, 
  died 
  on 
  February 
  29 
  at 
  the 
  age 
  of 
  

   sixty-four 
  years. 
  

  

  