504 General Notes. [ August, 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
—A party consisting of Dr. Joseph D. Hooker, K. C. B., Keeper of 
Kew Botanical Gardens, Gen. Strachey of India, Prof. Asa Gray and 
Prof. Joseph Leidy, have, as guests of the U. S. Geological Survey of 
the Territories, accompanied Prof. F. V. Hayden to Colorado, and will 
visit Utah and the Pacific Coast. 
— The army officers at Fort Walla Walla, Washington Territory, have 
organized the Walla Walla Association for the Advancement of Science, 
Surgeon George M. Sternberg, U. S. A., being the first president. This 
is a new step for the military to take, and one in a good direction. We 
wish the new society all usefulness and success. 
— Dr. Philip Pearsall Carpenter died on the 24th of May at his 
residence in Montreal, Canada, of typhoid fever, at the age of fifty- 
seven. He was born at Bristol in England, into the family of the well- 
known Dr. Lant Carpenter, among whose eminent children, Dr. W. B. 
Carpenter, Miss Mary Carpenter, and the subject of this notice, are best 
known. Dr. P. P. Carpenter was educated as a clergyman, and may be 
said to have never left off the clerical mantle, so far as a continuance of 
earnest labors in all matters of moral and sanitary reform may be con- 
cerned. There can be no doubt that his unceasing and enthusiastic 
work in this direction curtailed his opportunities for scientific study and 
indirectly brought about his premature death. 
As a student of nature Dr. Carpenter’s attention was chiefly directed 
to the mollusca, and especially to those ofsthe west coast of America. 
The systematic study of this fauna was begun by him, and his work 
has rendered it practicable for others to follow him with a vast decrease 
of labor and bibliographical research. Thorough, careful, conscientious; 
frank, his reports and papers on this fauna will ever remain as his best 
monument. ° 
He also gave particular attention to the Pandoride, Cecide, and 
Chitonide, each of which groups’ he monographed in a thorough manner. 
The last mentioned work is yet unprinted, but is believed to be in a condi- 
tion so complete as to leave little doubt that it will be published, as 
originally announced, by the Smithsonian Institution. It is a very re- 
markable monograph, and the first successful attempt to illuminate the 
darkness which has obscured the group of Chitonide. Malacologists are 
to be congratulated that this, the author’s last, and in many resp 
most valuable effort, is not to be lost. Personally, he worked for right- 
eousness in all his doipgs; no one could know without respecting the 
man, though his fiery enthusiasm was not always appreciated or under- 
stood. And beneath a thoroughly English bluntness of character lay 
an almost womanly tenderness for sorrow, ignorance, or need, in others: 
He married, in 1860, Miss Minna Meyer of Hamburg, a lady who has 
proved a helpmeet in all the work of his life, and who survives him. 
