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though the many descriptions and preliminary papers which he — 
~- published, and his early works, will forever connect his name with 
the marine zoology of the world. 
Tue Committee to arrange for the next meeting of the Associa- 
TION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE have informed us, just as 
we go to press, that the meeting will not be held in San Francisco 
as previously announced, but in Dubuque, beginning on 
Wednesday morning, August 2Ist, at 10 o’clock. 
We shall give all the details possible in our August number, and 
the circulars to members will undoubtedly now be issued at once 
by the Local Committee. 
Ir will be noticed that the Herbarium of the late Rev. M. A. 
Curtiss of Hillsboro, N. C., the veteran and highly esteemed 
Mycologist, is offered for sale in our advertising pages. But a 
few months ago we were in correspondence with Dr. Curtiss, relative 
to the publication of his manuscripts and drawings on the edible 
fungi of the United States, and though aware of his feeble health 
we had no reason to suppose his life labors were so nearly overs 
- the first intimation we received being the request to publish the 
advertisement given inthis number. Dr. Curtiss has so long been 
identified with the study of the important and interesting grop 
of Fungi, and has so extensively exchanged and collected spect 
mens, that his collection must be of the highest value as ap 
authentic one in this most difficult department, and we trust that 
it will at once be secured for some prominent herbarium where gz 
life-long labors will be appreciated and made useful. F 
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“ Tr is with very great regret that we have to record the death 
solo gt ty Gth of Mays 
Mr. Georce Roserr Gray, which took place on the $ 
after a short illness. He was born in the year 1808, at Little 
Chelsea, and was appointed an Assistant in the Zoological Departe 
ment of the British Museum in 1831. At the time of his y 
he occupied the post of Assistant Keeper of that dep + 
e established his reputation as an ornithologist by his "Genet : 
Birds,” a great work, in the production of which he was a . 
for twelve years, from 1837 to 1849. From that time he pga : 
princeps in this branch of science, to which he devoted st pa 
almost exclusively. Only a short time before his death gg 
pleted his invaluable **Handlist of Birds,” published in three Vo T 
by the Trustees of the British Museum.” — Academy. 
