A. E. Verrill — The Bermuda Islands. 857 



for vessels bound from Bermuda to New York ; from New York to Bermuda ; 

 between Halifax and Bermuda ; from Barbadoes or neighboring West India 

 Islands to Bermuda ; and from England to Bermuda. These directions were 

 reprinted in several editions of Blunt's American Coast Pilot. Cole. 



In the Library of Yale University are three volumes of unpublished corre- 

 spondence between Gov. Beid and Mr. Wm, C. Kedfield, mostly relating to 

 meteorology. Befers to the sending of plows and many other implements, and 

 many garden seeds, etc., in 1840-45. 

 Rice, Wm. North. — Geology of Bermuda. Bulletin United States Nat. Museum, 



No. 25, part i, pp. 5-32, with illustrations and a map, 1884. Beviewed in 



Amer. Jour. Science, ser. 3, xxix, p. 338, 1885, by J. D. Dana. 

 Scott, Andrew. — Notes on the Bermuda Islands. Amer. Jour. Sci., ser. 2, xxiv, 



p. 274, Sept., 1857. (Geological.) 

 Stevenson, John J. — Notes on the Geology of the Bermudas. Trans. New York 



Acad. Sciences, xvi, pp. 96-124, with map and two plates, March, 1897. 

 Tarr, Ralph S. — Changes of Level in the Bermuda Islands. American Geologist, 



xix, pp. 293-303, plates 16-18, May, 1897. 

 Thomson, Sir C. Wyville. — Geological Peculiarities of the Bermudas. Nature, 



vol. viii, pp. 266, 267, 1 cut, July, 1873. 

 Thomson, Sir C. Wyville. — Voyage of the Challenger. The Atlantic, vol. 1. 



Chapter IV, with map. London, 1877; N. Y., 1878. 

 Tizard, T. H., and others. — Narrative af the cruise of H. M. S. Challenger, with 



a general account of the scientific results of the expedition. 2 vols in 3. 



1882-1885 [vol. 1, 1884-85, vol. 2, 1882.] 

 Vol. i, pt. 1. — General description of the geology, flora, and fauna of the Ber- 

 mudas ; giving the movements of the members of the expedition, during their 

 two visits, from April 3-23, and from May 28 to June 13, 1873 ; illustrated with 

 19 woodcuts, a diagram, and three charts, pp. 136-153, 160-167; other references 

 to Bermuda, pp. 431, 483-484. See Cole, Bibliog. Chall. Exped. ; and same 

 issiied as Separata. 



Vol. i, pt. 2. — Bevised table, showing the positions of the soundings, the tem- 

 perature, etc., of surface and bottom water, trawlings, dredgings, etc., near Ber- 

 muda, Appendix II., pp. 1008-1009 ; report on the chronometers and the meri- 

 dian distances obtained, while at Bermuda, Appendix III., pp. 1017-1026. The 

 result obtained was as follows : Bermuda Island, Dockyai'd clock tower, 32° 

 19' 4" North Latitude, 64° 51' 36" West Longitude on chart, but by Challenger's 

 observer 64° 49' 24" West Longitude, the meridian based upon Gibraltar and 

 Halifax. Cole. 



Vol. ii. — Abstract of magnetical observations taken at fifteen different points 

 on land, at Bermuda, with descriptive references to observation spots, pp. 25, 

 46 ; pp. 56-59 ; Abstract of Variations, etc., pp. 76 ; 114-119 ; 274-276 ; 276-277 ; 

 278-279 ; 280-281 ; 296-297 ; 346-352 ; 364-369. Cole. 

 Verrill, Addison E. — Notes on the Geology of the Bermudas, Amer. Journ. 



Science, ser. 4, vol. ix, pp. 313-340, with 11 cuts and a map, May, 1900. 



Medical. 

 Brainerd, John B. — Letter from Bermuda. Boston Medical and Surgical 

 Journal. Boston. 8°. Vol. 118 (No. 16, April 19, 1888), p. 411-412. 

 Note. — Statistics of temperature for ten years give highest as 90", lowest 42°. 

 While it is no place for conisumptives it is just the place for overworked 

 and jaded men. Cole. 



