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Eingegangene Schriften. 



(Vom 1 — 30. Nov. 1873.) 



Smithsonian Institution. Contribut. to 

 Knowledge. Vol. XVIII. — Washington 

 1873. Koy. 4». 



Chas. A. Schott: Tables and results of the 

 precipitation , in rain and snow, in the U. S., and 

 at sonie stations in adjac. i)ts. of X. America, and 

 in Centr. and S. America. Collect, by the Smithson. 

 Instit., and discussed iinder direct. of Jos. Henry. 

 Secret. (5 pl., 3 Charts.) — John N. Stockwell: 

 Memoir on the seciüar variations of the elemeuts 

 of the Orbits of the 8 principal planets, Mercury. 

 Venus, the Earth. Mars, Jupiter. Saturn, Uranus, 

 and Neptune, w. tabl. of the same. Together w. 

 the obhgnity of the Ecliptic, and the process. of 

 the equinoxes in both longitude and right Ascens. 



— Wm. Harkness: Observ. on ten-estr. magnetism 

 and on the deviat. of the compasses of the U. S. 

 iron-clad Monadnock dur. her cruise from Phila- 

 delphia to San PYancisco, in 1865 and i86G. — 

 Wm. Ferren : Converging series expressing the 

 ratio betw. the diameter and the circumfer. of 

 a circle. 



California Acad. of sciences. Proceed. 

 Vol. IV, Part 5 1-1872). — San Francisco 

 1873. 8". 



F. E. Durand: Note on crystals of Quartz 

 of a red col. , by the iuterposit. of Cinnabar. - 

 On the crystalliz. of Metacinnabarite. — On the 

 silver mines of Pioche. — J. Blake: Ou some 

 recently discov. aborig. implements. — On the 

 absence of a rien to the great basin to the north 

 of the Pueblo Butte. — Remarks on the typogr. 

 of the Gr. Bas. — R. Stearns: Descript. of a 

 new spec. of Mangeha, fr. Calif. — On the economie 

 value of cert. Austr. forest trees and tlieir cultiv. 

 in Calif. — G. E. Gray: On the depress. of the 

 Col. Basin. — A. Bowman: On coast surface and 

 scenic geol. (1 pl.) — G. Davidson: Tlie rel. 

 value of great and small altit. for asü'on. observ. 



— Suggest. of a cosm. cause for the great chmat. 

 changes upon the earth. — Prof. J. Le Conte: 

 On some of the ancient glaciers of the Sierras. — 

 R. Stearns: New spec. of sheUs from Calif. — 

 Notes on Purpura canalicul. — A partial comparism 

 of the Conchol. of portions of the Atl. and Pac. 

 coasts of N. America. — R. H. Stretch: Notes 

 on a spec. of Coccus recently found in Calif. — 

 Capt. C. Scammon : On a new spec. of Balamoptera. 



— W. H. Dali: New spec. of Moll. fr. the N.W. 

 coast of America. (1 pl.) — Three new spec. of 

 Crustacea, parasit. on the Cetacea of the X. W. coast 

 of America. — On prehist. rem. in the Aleutian 

 Isl. (1 pl.) — On the parasites of the Cetaceans 

 of the N. W. coast of America, with descript. of 

 7iew forms. — A. Stout: The horse disease and 

 its treatment. — A. Kellogg: A new spec. ot 

 Hibiscus. — W. Goodyear: On the geol. of the 

 coast of Oregon. 



Geolog, snrvey of Indiana. 3"* and 4"^ 

 annual reports of the — , made during the 

 years 1871 and 1872, byE.T.Cox, State geol. 

 4 gr.Karten, sep. geb. — Indianopolis 1872. 8". 



Staats-Ackerbau-Behörde von Ohio. XXVI. 



Jahresber. , mit e. Aiisz. aus d. Verb, der 

 County-Ackerbau-GeseUsch. , an d. Gen. -Vers, 

 von Ohio, für d. J. 1871. — Columbus, Ohio, 

 1872. 8". 



Akad. of nat. sciences of Philadelphia. 

 Proceed. P.I— III, Jan.— Dec. 1872. — Phila- 

 delphia 1872. 8». 



Edw. D. Cope: On Holops pneumaticus. — 

 List, of the rept. of the eocene form, of New Jersey. 



— Synopsis of the spec. of the Chelyiü'inae. — 

 On an extinat whale fr. Cahfornia. — On a spec. 

 of Clidastes. and on Plesiosanrus gulo Cope. — 

 Ou the struct. of Pythonomorpha. — On the geol. 

 of Wyoming. — On an extinet gen. of saurodont 

 fishes. — Jos. Leidy: Remarks on fossils fr. 

 Wyoming. — On some extinat vertebr. — On 

 Mastodon fr. New Mex. — On .\rtemia fr. Salt 

 Lake. — On some new spec. of fossil mamm. fr. 

 Wyoming. — On mineral Springs etc. of Wyoming 

 and Utah. — On the action of wind and sand on 

 rocks. — Th. Meehan: On the numerical order 

 in the branching of some Coniferae. — On the 

 axial origin of so-called pine needles. — On in- 

 herent growth foree, and on variations in Quercus 

 l>ouglassii. — On the tlowers of Asparagus. — 

 On the spawn of Agaricus camp. — On the agency 

 of insects in obstructing evolution. — IL Allen: 

 On the append. skel. of Vertebr.— E. L. Berthoud : 

 On prehist. hum. art fr. Wyoming and Colorado. — 

 T. A. Conrad: Descript. and illustr. of gen. of 

 Shells. — Elliott Coues: Stud. of the Tyraunidae. 



— Material for a monogr. of the Sphenicidae. — 

 G. W. Tryon: Catal. and synon. of the recent 

 spec. of the fam. Lucinidae. — Catal. of the fam. 

 Chamidae, Chametrachacidae. Galeommidae, Lep- 

 tonidae. Lascidae, .Astartidae. and Solem\adae. - 

 J. Lewis: Shells of Herkimer and adjac. counties 

 in the State of New York. — SheUs of Tennessee. 



— Th. G. Gentry: On hybridism betw. Macaeus 

 nemestr. u. M. cynomolg. — T. Haie Streets: 

 Notice of some crustacea fr. the isl. of St. Martins. 



— J. G. Cooper: Ou new Cahfornia Pulmonata. 



— Js. Lea: Descript. of 29 spec. of Unionidae 

 fr. the U. S. — Wm. M. Gabb: Notes on the 

 gen. Polorthus. — Notice of a collect, of eretac. 

 foss. fr. Chihuahua, Mexico. — Descript. of some 

 new gen. of. Moll. 



The Americ. Journ. of Science and Arts, 

 ed. by Proff. James D. Dana and B. Silliman. 



