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feet, or about 500 feet lower than the Boiling springs which are of a 
similar nature at the foot of Pike’s peak on the Fontaine-qui-bouit. On 
the morning of the next day, (July 26,) the temperature of the large 
Beer spring was 56°, and that of the Steamboat spring 87°; and that 
of the steam hole, near it, 81°-5. Farther south on the great salt lake, 
about seven miles from Clear creek, ten or twelve hot saline springs 
were observed by Capt. Fremont, in one of which the thermometer 
stood at 186° and in another at 132°°5. 
10. Chalk and Coal Fires, (Athen., No. 1001.)—The practical 
utility of chalk as an article of fuel has been tested within the last few 
weeks, according to a Salisbury paper, and with the most satisfactory 
results. Surrounded with coal, it gives a strong heat, and a clear 
at half the usual expense; so that to the poor, in the chalk districts, it 
must be an invaluable boon. 
11. Paris Academy of Sciences.—The following vacancies occasion- 
ed by death have lately been filled: M. Fontanier, the French consul at 
Singapore; has been elected in place of Dubois-Aymé ; Panofka of Ber- 
lin, in place of Ideler; M. Faye, the Astronomer, in place of Damoiseau. 
12. A Society of Naturalists has been formed at Trieste, with spe- 
cial reference to the zoology of the Adriatic. Count Odonel has been 
appointed President. 
13. New Appointments to Professorships in Harvard and Yale.— 
Mr. E. N. Horsrorp has been elected to fill the chair of the Rumford 
Professorship of Science applied to the Arts, in Harvard University, 
and Prof. Jerrrres Wyman, M.D., has been chosen Hersey Professor 
Chemistry and of Vegetable and Animal Physiology, in Yale, and 
B. Stntiman, Jr., Professor of Chemistry applied to the Arts. : 
14. Deviation of a Falling Body.—In the remarks on the deviation 
of a falling body to the south, in our last number, it was not considered 
that the deviation to be accounted for, is that south from a plumb line. 
f there assigned, viz. the earth’s rotation, makes the plumb 
itself deviate to the south of the line of the earth’s attraction, as muc 
as the falling body. 
Corrections._.We have been informed by Dr. Engelmann, that since 
the publication of his notice of the Melonites (p. 124), he has ascer- 
tained that Dr. Prout first directed Dr. Brown’s attention to the locality 
mentioned, and the latter discovered the fine slab now in possession of 
the Academy. 
In the figure of the Marsilee of North America, page 55, of this 
Volume, the body of the capsule of fig. 1, should have been represented 
as more connected with the stipe so as to make the raphe much longer. 
All the figures are twice not half the natural eis a 
On page 299, in the notice of Dr. Peter’s work on Urinary Calculi, 
“Pennsylvania” is inserted incorrectly for “ Transylvania.” 
In Volume i, of this series, page 427, under “ Electric Excitement of 
Paper,” the word stove should be substituted for stone. 
15. Ostruary.—Dr. Amos Binney.—Science has been called upon 
to lament the loss of one of her most zealous and efficient votaries in 
\merica, Dr. Amos Binney of Boston. In New England especially 
his aid and influence were preéminent. 
