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with other travellers, was published in the ‘‘ Colorado Miner,” 
edited by the Rev. Professor Weiser, who made an encomiastie 
address upon the occasion, upon the mountain’s summit. The 
visit of Dr. Torrey was a few weeks later. Gray’s Peak being 
the easier to surmount, is ascended almost every fine summer day 
from Georgetown; and when a better bridle-road replaces the 
present rude trail of the last two miles the whole ascent may be 
made with wonderfully little toil. As Gray’s Peak is the one 
commonly visited, and as it has never received any other name, it 
has come to have more celebrity than its equally picturesque and 
perhaps rather loftier fellow, and sometimes the name is applied 
in the plural number to both culminations, or else the name of 
Irwin’s Peak is used to designate the western one. But it is un- 
derstood that Mr. Irwin’s exploration of this peak was a few 
years later than Dr. Parry’s ascent of both and his dedication of 
them, one to his botanical master, and the other to Dr. Torrey’s 
associate in publication, Dr. Gray. The citizens of Georgetown, 
as represented by a numerous deputation, assembled upon this twin 
mountain upon the occasion referred to, and took the opportunity 
to do an act of justice, no less than of well deserved compliment, by 
formally resolving that the original name of the western peak, as 
assigned by Dr. Parry, ought to be and should be restored ; that, 
as the one is everywhere known as Gray’s, the other should in the 
future, as at first, be known as Torrey’s Peak, and so our botani- 
cal Nestor be no longer defrauded of the honor which was spe 
ially intended for him in the original naming. We wish it could 
be added that Dr. Torrey had accomplished the ascent of his own 
beautiful mountain upon the occasion of his recent visit; but un- 
propitious weather prevented his reaching the summit. 
An incomparable distant view of these peaks is to 
from the summit of Mount Parry, which rises between the v 
in which Empire City lies and the Middle Park.—A. G. 
B. PERRY, 
d of Octo- 
be had 
alley 
We regret to announce the death of Professor JOHN 
which took place at his home in Cambridge, on the thir 
ber, in his forty-sixth year. 
Proressor Agassiz’s stay on the Pacific coast is having good 
results in awakening an interest in natural science among d 
people. We notice by the “ Sacramento Daily Union ” of On 
which contains a very full report of a lecture by Prof. Agassi” 
