588 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



ists. The first volume will be printed by the middle of 

 1875, to contain an account of publications for 1874. The 

 work will probably occupy from two to three hundred pages, 

 and be sold at 105. 6d. Among those who will take part in 

 the work are Messrs. Carruthers, De Ranee, D. Forbes, Pro- 

 fessor Geikie, Professor T. R. Jones, L. C. Miall, Dr. H. A. 

 Nicholson, Henry Woodward, and others. Authors of ar- 

 ticles on the above-mentioned subjects are requested to for- 

 ward copies for the purpose of having them properly no- 

 ticed. 12 A, Oct. 22, 1874, 511. 



LOAN EXHIBITION OP SCIENTIFIC APPARATUS. 



The scientific department of the Committee of Council on 

 Education, South Kensington, England, is preparing to make 

 a loan exhibition of scientific apparatus in 1876, to begin on 

 April 1st and last till the end of September. This will con- 

 sist of instruments and apparatus employed for a variety of 

 scientific purposes, as also of articles illustrating the prog- 

 ress of science and its application to the arts, with any spec- 

 imens that may be supposed to have an interest on account 

 of the persons who employed them. Drawings, photo- 

 graphs, etc., will also be admissible where the originals can 

 not be sent. Special efforts are being made to render this 

 collection complete, and Mr. W. Cunliffe Owen, director of 

 the South Kensington Museum, has applied to various sci- 

 entific establishments of this country as the Smithsonian 

 Institution for such specimens as may be considered desir- 

 able in this connection. 



LIST OF THE MERCHANT VESSELS OF THE UNITED STATES. 



The Statistical Bureau of the Treasury Department has 

 published a list of the merchant vessels of the United States, 

 with the official numbers and signal letters awarded them 

 a volume of nearly six hundred pages. This contains, first, 

 a list of the merchant vessels, alphabetically arranged ; sec- 

 ond, a list of the unrigged merchant vessels, alphabetically 

 arranged ; third, a list of sea-going vessels, with signal let- 

 ters arranged in their regular order ; fourth, a supplemental 

 list of vessels, officially numbered, up to June 30, 1874; 

 fifth, a list of vessels in the revenue service ; sixth, a list of 

 vessels belonging to the United States Navy in 1874; sev- 



