NOTES. 255: 
Tue Rev. John Bachman of Charleston, S. C., died on Feb. 25th, - 
at the venerable age of 85. This eminent naturalist and theolo- 
gian was a native of New York, having been born in Dutchess 
county, Feb. 4, 1790. He joined the ministry of the Lutheran 
Church in 1813, and in 1815 became pastor of the German Church 
of that denomination in Charleston, S. C., retaining that office 
_ until his death. He was an associate of Audubon, whom he as- 
. sisted in the preparation of his great work on Ornithology, and 
was the principal author of the three volumes on the quadrupeds 
of North America, illustrated by that great naturalist and his 
sons. Bachman also published other works and about fifteen 
minor papers, all evincing unusual powers of observation, es- 
pecially those on change of color in birds, on the migration of 
birds, on the mode of reproduction of the opossum, and several 
- anthropological papers. 
Tue Legislature of Kentucky have appropriated $18,500, annu- 
ally, for two years, for a new geological survey of the state. Prof. 
. S. Shaler is appointed state geologist. 
Is not the time coming for a careful geological and zoological 
survey of the state of Massachusetts? While surveys are going 
on or have recently been completed in so many other states, it is 
not particularly to the credit of this state that a thorough survey _ 
of its geological and biological riches has not been instituted. 
It is now over thirty years since the original incomplete surv ey of 
the state was made. Since then physical science has changed so 
much that the work done then needs to be reviewed and greatly 
extended. 
Tue enterprising city of Waterbury is to be congratulated on 
the possession of a score or more of gentlemen, associated as the 
Waterbury Scientific Society, who have been endeavoring for sev- 
eral years, by popular lectures and other means, to attract the 
more intelligent of their fellow-citizens to the improvement and 
development of their minds by the begimings of scientific re- 
Search. It is not often that any except a college town has so 
~ Many men who are earnest students in special fields of knowledge, 
and who have made so much attainment in their specialties. — 
Hartford Courant. 
A Microscorrcat Society has been formed at Louisville, Ken- 
tucky : Which meets the first and third Thursdays of each month. 
