MISCELLANY. 



Z77 



Climatology of Florida. By A. S. Bald- 

 win, M. D. Pp. 39. Charleston, S. C. : 

 Walker, P^vans & Cogswell. 



Secular Sermons, No. 1. By John Mcin- 

 tosh. Pp. 20. Rochester : C. H. Stump. 



Language, its Nature and Functions. 

 By Rev. J. H. Pettingell, M. A. Pp. 26. 

 Washington : Gibson Bros. 



Report of the Managers of the State 

 Lunatic Asylum, Utica, for the Year 1874. 

 Albany : Weed, Parsons & Co. 



Management of the Insane. By Henry 

 Howard, M. D. Pp. 14. St. Johns, N. B. : 

 News Print. 



A Protest against the High-Pressure 

 System of Education. Same Author. Pp. 24. 



Philosophy of Dairy Manufactures. By 

 F. X. Willard, M. A., of Herkimer Co., N. 

 Y. Pp. 29. 



The Aerial World (Hartwig). Appletons. 



Problems of Life and Mind (Lewes). Os- 

 good. 



What Young People should know 

 (Wilder). Estes & Lauriat. 



Storms : their Nature, Classification, and 

 Laws (Blasius). Philadelplfia : Porter & 

 Coates. 



Certain Harmonies of the Solar System 

 (Alexandei). 



Lists of Elevations (Gannett). 



Fishes of the East Coast of North Amer- 

 ica (Gill). 



Eighth Annual Report of the Trustees 

 of the Peabody Museum. 



Meteorological Observations (Chitten- 

 den). 



MISCELLANY. 



Notices of Recent Earthqaakes. The 



American Journal of Scieiice for May gives 

 a summary of earthquakes for the year 

 1874, prepared by Prof. C. G. Rockwood, 

 Jr., of Rutgers College, New Jersey. They 

 are reported from nearly all quarters of the 

 globe, forty-three in number. Two of these 

 were disastrous, but in most cases the 

 shocks appear to have been light. 



Fourteen shocks are reported as having 



occurred in the United States. The most 

 important of these took place in North 

 Carolina, in Bald and Stone Mountains. 

 The shocks continued at intervals from 

 February lOlh to April 17th, with explosive 

 and rumbling noises. The most seveie 

 shock was I'elt February 22d. On one oc- 

 casion the sound of the shock resembled 

 that made by blasting in a deep quarry, first 

 explosive, then reverberating. 



The shock which occurred in the vicinity 

 of New York City, December 10, 1874, is 

 noticed. It extended as far as Peekskill on 

 the north, and Norwalk, Connecticut, on the 

 east. The shock was most severe in the 

 neighborhood of Tarrytown and Nyack, but 

 did no damage anywhere. 



The most disastrous earthquakes oc- 

 curred at and near Harpoot Mission, East- 

 ern Turkey, destroying the houses of Haloosi, 

 a considerable town near that place, and 

 at Volcan del Fuego in Guatemala. This 

 earthquake destroyed the town of Duenos. 

 From a small mountain near the base of the 

 Volcan del Fuego there issued an eruption 

 of cold compact mud. 



Testing Iron and Stec!. We have re- 

 ceived the programme of organization of a 

 Board appointed by the President, in accord- 

 ance with the provisions of an act of Con- 

 gress, making " appropriations for sundry 

 civil expenses of the Government for the 

 fiscal year ending June 30, 1876, and for 

 other purposes." 



The instructions of the Board are, to de- 

 termine by actual tests the strength and 

 value of all kinds of iron, steel, and other 

 metals, which may be submitted to it, or by 

 it procured, and to prepare tables which will 

 exhibit the strength and value of said ma- 

 terials for constructive purposes. The mem- 

 bers of this Board are Lieutenant-Colonel 

 T. T. S. Laidley, U. S. A., President, Com- 

 mander L. A. Beardslee, U. S. N., Lieuten- 

 ant-Colonel Q. A. Gillmore, U. S. A., Chief- 

 Engineer David Smith, U. S. N., W. Sooy 

 Smith, C. E.. A. L. Holley, C. E., and R. H. 

 Thurston, C. E., Secretary. 



The Board has organized into standing 

 committees to conduct special experiments 

 and investigations, during the delay in pre- 

 paring the testing machinery for the regular 

 work of the Board, and afterward, as leisure 



