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— The death of Mr. Frank Buckland, is announced in the 
papers of Dec. 18th. Mr. Buckland was the son of Dean Buck- 
land, the distinguished geologist. He was well known as a pleas- 
ing writer on popular natural history, and as a fish culturist. 
— A large and valuable collection of Rhode Island plants has 
been presented by Mr. James L. Bennett, of Providence, to the 
already increasing Herbarium of Brown University, of which Mr, 
W. W. Bailey has recently been appointed the curator, 
— Prof. Thomas Rymer Jories, F.R.S., died in December; he 
was born in 1810; held the chair of comparative anatomy in 
King’s College, London, and was the author of “ The General 
Outline of the Animal Kingdom.” 
— Dr. E. Sequin, well-known as a leading American physician, 
philanthropist and physiologist, died in New York in October. 
He was born in France in 1812, and showed brilliant talents 
while a student in Paris. 
— It is reported in the daily papers that a manuscript journal 
of Gilbert White, of Selborne, has been discovered. It is said 
_to be of considerable length. 
_ — Dr. Lauder Lindsay, who wrote on the subject of intelligence 
in the lower animals, and who was an authority on British lichens, 
died in December last. 
— Prof. Ernst Hampe, a distinguished German bryologist, died 
recently at Helmatedt, aged 85 years. 
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PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
New York Acapemy oF Sciences, Dec. 20.—Professor C. H. 
Hitchcock read a paper on the ancient volcanoes of New England, 
and Dr. R. P. Stevens exhibited some rare silver ores and carbo- 
niferous fossils from Arizona. 
Boston Society or Natura History, Dec. 15.--Notes onthe 
geology of Mt. Desert were read by Mr. Wm. M. Davis, and that 
' of the adjoining Frenchmen’s Bay was discussed by Mr. W. O 
Crosby. Mr. JS. Kingsley spoke of some points in the anatomy 
of Holothurians. Dr. Edward Palmer showed some objects of 
ethnological interest from caves in Mexico. 
