446 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
day some of the Sections met; and in the afternoon the concluding 
general meeting was held for the customary ceremonial procee dings. 
he 
e meeting was a good one, though the wet weather interfered 
somewhat with the comfort and pleasures of the occasion. The amount 
of scientific business accomplished was less than at many of the pre- 
ceding meetings. 
ithoceramic.—MM. CuruvrevussE and .Bovvert of Paris, have 
pte to replace the timber used for supporting the rails of a rail- 
road, by a mineral compound, to which they have given the name 
Lithocerami ie. 
8. Kumptolite, (Athenzeum.)—The courtyard of the Admirality, 
Whitehall, ‘has been covered with a paving of India rubber. oe laid 
own in pieces about twelve inches square and one thic uad- 
rangle at Buckingham palace, formed by the erection of the new wing, 
IL also be covered by this material, which its projectors have named 
‘ olite.” Its chief recommendation i is that it deadens all sot 
agnetic needle Brussels, on the morning of April 14, 1848, 
was" 0-4 ept observations of twenty-two years, and 
states that in — it-was 68° 56-5. The diminution amounts to” — 
minutes a ye 
10. pnctte. Expédition in search of Sir joe Franklin, (Atheneans : 
N , Sept. 9, 1848.)—A fishing cutter arrived at Stromness, 
brings the: news that an» American whaler visiting Lievely, in Disco 
ee had learnt that on thé 2d of July, Her Majesty’s ships Investiga- 
gator and Enterprize, under Sir John Ross, had — the harbor, 
and landed dispatches to the care of the Danish governor, ,to be for- 
warded by the first vessel to Europe. The expedition “immediately 
ed-in search of Sir John Franklin. The crews were all well. 
~ PL. Fears arte epg (Athen.)—Indian papers notice the dis- 
covery in the Deccan, of a bed of lithographic smmeatons; of great ex- 
tent and-excellent _ lity, ee 
(12. Ray Society, (Athen., Aug. 26.)—The ey Society-held its fifth 
Sitar’ at Swansea—the Marquis of Northampton filling the 
‘The Report stated that although no great increase of n umbers 
curred Seeing 1 the ae year, the funds were larger, in consequence 
bseri 
of. the new 
Alder & 
of John ie ” 
an for I 
m of Econauil c Geology, England. —The building for this 
tly co mpletedion n excellent site in Piccadilly ; £30,000 
Ce ee ee ee 
countr ry w — after receive their copies, through Mr. G. 
aad bahar, in New York and London, who has been 
