180 : Miscellanies. 
planetary world,” says M. Arago, “is beginning to reveal itself 
to us.” Before the final settlement of a theory for the phenomenon, 
extensive and exact observations, continued during all the favorable 
nights of the year, and for many years, are greatly needed. Such 
observations we can scarcely expect to obtain; yet much might be 
accomplished if the watch at the various military stations throughout 
the world and on board national vessels could be induced to lend 
their aid. The connection between these meteors and the Zodiacal 
Light which Prof. Olmsted has suggested, renders it also highly 
important that this appearance should be observed with the most 
eareful attention. 
‘New Haven, Conn. 
MISCELLANIES. 
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN. 
Bibliographical Notices. 
1. Boston Sonic of Natural History, containing papers and 
communications read to the Boston Society of Natural History. Part 
I. No. 4. Boston. Hilliard, Gray & Co. 1837.—A notice of an 
earlier part of the transactions will be found in Vol. 31, p. 185, and 
in our last number we republished the annual report of the Society. 
It gives us pleasure to announce the appearance of the fourth num- 
ber of their Journal, completing the first part of the first volume. 
Mr. Say’s Descriptions of New Species of North American Hy- 
menoptera, &c. is completed. Art. 18. Description of a new spe- 
cies of the genus Hydrargyra; with some additions to the catalogue 
of the fishes of Massachusetts in Prof. Hitchcock’s “ Report.” By 
D. Humphreys Storer, M.D. Art. 19. Remarks on the Positions 
assumed by George Ord, Esq. in’ relation to the Cow Black Bird, 
(Icterus Agripennis) in Loudon’s Magazine for February, 1836. 
By Mr. Thos. M. Brewer. Art. 20. Some additions to the cata- 
logue of the Birds of Massachusetts in Prof. Hitchcock’s “ Re- 
port.” By Mr. Thos. M. Brewer. Art. 21. Descriptions of a new 
species of the genus Marginella, (Lam.) with some observations on 
the same. By Capt. Joseph Couthouy. Art. 22. Anatomical de- 
