286 ■ Miscellany, Book Notices, etc. 



MISCELLANY, BOOK NOTICES, ETC. 



By the will of the late Mr. Charles Bodraan of this city, the "Cincin- 

 nati Society of Natural History" receives a bequest of $50,000. No 

 conditions are attached to the gift. It is absolute. Mr. Bodnian was 

 a member of the society, and by his munificence has placed it on a 

 permanent basis, and enabled it to become one of the principal educa- 

 tional institutions of the city. No donation, to a public purpose, was 

 ever more gratefully received, or more likely to perpetuate the 

 memory of the benefactor than this one. 



The cool spring and summer, and the pleasant showers and liard 

 rains, have rendered this season unusually favorable to collectors in 

 natural history in this latitude. The increased interest taken in 

 geological and paleontological science, is manifested by a large increase 

 in the number of collectors. There are, now, in this city, five times 

 as many sollectors of fossils and antiquities, as there were that many 

 years ago, and the number will. continue to increase every year. We 

 never find a man who has studied and collected fossils at one period of 

 his life, afterward entirely abandoning the 2:)ursuit. 



A scientific association has been organized and incorporated at 

 Richmond, Indiana. The officers for the ensuing year are James F. 

 Hibbard, President; Wm. M. Jackson, Vice-President; L. B. Case, 

 Corresponding Secretary ; and D. H. Dougan, Recording Secretary and 

 Treasurer. A suitable ro(ftn for a museum has been leased for a term 

 of years, and a full complement of custodians appointed. Their publi- 

 cations will be under the name of "Transactions of the Scientific 

 Association of Richmond, Indiana," the first of which is a neat pamphlet 

 of 16 pages, containing constitution, by-laws, list of members, etc. 



The well at the Insane Asylum, St. Louis County, Missouri, by 

 Prof. G. C. Broadhead, State Geologist. This well was sunk a distance 

 of 3,8431 feet. Experiments with a Fahrenheit registering ther- 

 mometer indicated at the depths of 3,127 feet 106°, 3,129 feet 107°, 

 3,264 and 3,376 feet 106°, 3,473, 3,533 and 3604 feet 105°, 3,641 

 feet 104|°, 3,728 feet 105^°, and at 3,800 and 3,837 feet 105°. The 

 drill was highly magnetized in boring to the depth of 833 feet, but 

 after passing that depth no farther magnetic influence was observed. 



Catalogue of Lower Silurian fossils of the Cincinnati Group, found 

 at Cincinnati, within a circuit of 40 or 50 miles. New edition much 

 enlarged, with descriptions of some new species of corals and polyzoa. 

 By U. P. Jam^s, Cincinnati, April 1875. 



