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Plumbago ; the Abyssinian Valoradia; and the African and North In- 

 dian Vogelia. 



In the Corrigenda to the volume, we notice that Benlham has cor- 

 rected the orthography of Trichostemma, so printed in the Genera of 

 Linnaeus, and by mistake in the Labiatarum Gen. et Sp. to Trichos- 

 tenia, as written by Gronovius, by Linnaeus in the Hortus CUfforiianus, 

 and as the derivation requires. 



The second part of the thirteenth volume, to contain the Phytolac- 

 eacea, Salsolacece, Basellacece and Amaranthacece, by Moquin Tandon, 

 is promised for April next. The first part of the same volume, devo- 

 ted to the SolanacecB and Plantaginacea, it is discreetly said, will be 

 published later. The vigorous progress of this great work, however, 

 in spite of the overturnings and confusion of continental Europe, at 

 present so disastrous to science, is very gratifying. A. Gk. 



2. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York, vol. 

 iv, No. 12, September, 1848. 



Wm. L. Jones, M.D.: Description of a New Species of Woodpecker 



Picas LeContei. — p. 490, with a plate. 



J. H. Redfield: Description of New Species of Bullia and Mar- 

 gined, with Notes upon the Monograph, by G. B. Sowerby, Jr., of the 

 •atter genus : p. 491, with a plate. 



0. W. Morris: Observations on the quantity of rain at different 

 lights : p. 496. 



0. W. Morris : Observations on the state of the weather before and 

 after Auroras and Halos — On the quantity of rain at different eleva- 

 tions, with other Meteorological results : p.' 500. 



J- F. Holton : On Musical Intonation and Temperament : p. 504. 



This number closes volume iv, of the Annals. 

 • The following are the officers of the Lyceum for 1848-49 : 



resident, Joseph Delafield. — Vice Presidents, John Le Conte, 

 Wm. C. Redfield. — Corresponding Secretary, John H. Redfield. 

 Recording Secretary, Robert H. Browne. — Treasurer, Charles M. 

 Wheatlef. — Librarian, Robert H. Browne. — Curators, B. W. Budd, 

 M -D., J. G. Bell, R. H. Browise, J. C. Brevoort, W. Gibbs, M.D. 



Report of Prof. Alexander D. Bache, Superintendant of the Coast Survey, 

 shewing the progress of that work for the year ending October, 1848.— The Survey 

 the Coast is making good progress under the able superintendence of Prof, 

 ache. He observes that " during the past year the work has been carried into 

 every State, with one exception, on the Atlantic and gulf of Mexico, and parties are 

 °n the way and under orders for the Pacific coast. The operations have been in 

 Progress on the full scale in four sections of the coast, including the reduction of 

 ne results; work of verification and filling up, and the engraving of charts from 

 toe back work, has been continued in the fifth section ; the second stage of pro- 

 gress has been reached in a sixth and seventh section, and preliminary reconnais- 

 •a nee has been made in an eighth. The work has been equivalent, at least, to full 

 activity in six sections. The estimates for the next fiscal year will furnish work 

 e quivalent to the full scale of operations in seven sections. A base line has been 

 Measured in one section, and two preliminary measurements of others made. Six 

 s heets of charts have been published, and ten others are in the hands of the en- 

 gravers. Thirteen sheets of mans and charts have been drawn in whole or in 

 Part within the year, exclusive or assemblage maps, sketches, &&" 



Chemical Reports and Memoirs : Works of the Cavendish Society, found- 

 ed in Jd46. — Contains the following memoirs. — Prof. Otto, on the relation of 

 the volumes of bodies in the solid state to their equivalents or atomic weights. 



