302 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



the past year has done injustice to many authors, by making citations 

 from the newspaper reports of the papers read at the Albany meeting. 



L Mathematics^ Physics, Meteorology ^ and Chemistry. 



On the Zodiacal Light ; hy Charles Wilkes, IT. S. N. 



Observations oa the Zodiacal Light at Quito, Ecuador, with deductions ; by Rev. 



Geo. Jones, U. S. N, 



On the Vibrations of the Fall over the Dam at Holyoke, Mass. ; by E. S. Snell. 



Hypothesis concerning Meteoric Stones ; by Robert Burns. 



Notes on the raeasurement of a base line on Epping Plains, Washington county, 

 Maine, for the Primary Triaugulation of the eastern section of the coast of the Uni- 

 ted States ; by A. D. Bache. 



On the Winds of the Pacific Coast of the United States ; by A. B. Bache. 



On the heights of the Tides of the Atlantic coast of the U. States ; by A. D. Bache. 



Solar Eclipse of March 11-15, 1858 ; by Thomas Hill. 



A note on Arithmetical Complements ; "by Thomas HilL 



On a System of Co-ordinates in Analytic Geometry ; by Thomas Hill. 



Note on the Gyroscope ; by B. Peirce. 



Note on the Conservation of Force ; by B. Peirce. 



On the diverse Weights employed in modern Coinage ; by J. H. Gibbon. 



On a new source of Electrical Excitation ; by Mrs. Elisha Eoote. 



On the physical conditions determinate of the climate of the United States ; by 

 Joseph Henry. 



On some Phenomena of Ice ; by Joseph Henry, 



On the influence of the Gulf Stream upon the Climate of the Atlantic coast of 

 the United States; by Dr. James Wynne. 



^ On the application of a new arrangement of Locomotive Boiler, to the combus- 

 tion of Coal ; by Dr. James Wynne. 



On the warped surfaces occurrinc: in Road Excavations and Em.bantment9 ; by 

 W. M, Gillespie. 



Preliminary Researches on the alleged influence of Solar Light on the Process of 

 Combustion ; hy John LeConte, of South Carolina College. 



On some special relations of the Straight Line and the various orders of Curves; 

 by Stephen Alexander, 



Of the Special Harmonies of the Distances and the Periodic times of the bodies 

 composing the Solar system, and the physical liypothesis to which this state ot 

 things seems to be referable ; by Stephen Alexander. ^ 



Some farther statistics and inquiries with respect to the form, magnitudes, Ac, oi 

 the Asteroid Planets ; by Stephen Alexander. -, 



Some of the phenomena of the Texas "Norther" and Chmatology; by G. ^' 

 Forshey. 



Improvement in the construction of the Achromatic Telescope ; by H. L. Smith, 

 Kenyon College, Gambier, 0. . , . 



Lus ; by I 

 Olmsted 



Jame 



ipecting a Steam-boiler Expl 



On a series of new Meteorological and Tliysical Tables prepared for the Smith- 



nian Institution ; by A. Guyot. , 



On the Barometric formula; for the measurement of dififerences of level by tne 



ijarometer and a proposed modification of Laplace's Constant ; by A. Guyot. 



En^fneers °^ ^'^ys'*^^ and Metaphysical Infinity ; by E. B. Hunt, Lieut. U. »• 



^Memoir on the Molecular Constitution of Material Masses ; by E. B. Hunt. Lieat. 

 U. S. Engmeers. 



Paper on Weights and Measures ; by G. M. Dexter. 



On a new Electro-magnetic Governor for Uniform Motion ; by J. H. Lane. 



bketch of a plan proposed for reducing observations upon periodical Phenonie»» 

 to a senes of mean dates, and the advantages of this method' of developing the l^aws 

 of Climate ; by Franklin B. Hough. 



On Ozone ; and on the Meteorology of Montreal ; by C. Smallwood. 



