302 Bibliography. 



phlet form, the tables for the St. Louis and the Louisville signals have 

 been mutually interchanged. The correcmess of the published results 

 is however not affected, as the error occurred during the preparation 



of the manuscript for the press. * 



9. Letters from Chrisiiania announce that the Swedish govern- 

 ment is fitting out an Expedition for the circumnavigation of the world, 



OBITUARY. 



Sir James Graham Dalyell, the eminent naturalist, and President 

 of the Society for Promoting the Useful Arts in Scotland, died in 

 Edinburgh, on the 7ih June, at the age of seventy-seven. 



VI, Bibliography. 



1. Reports of the Secretary of IVar^ wilh Reconnaissances of Routes 

 from San Antonio to El Paso; by Brevet Lt. Col. J. E, Johnston, 



Lieut, W, F. Smith, Lieut. F. T. Bryan, Lieut. N. H. Michler, and 

 Capt. S. G. French of the Quartermaster's Department. Also the Re- 

 port of Capt. R. B. Marcy's Route from Fort Smith to Santa Fe ; and 

 the Report of Lieut. J. H, Simpson, of an Expedition into the Navajo 

 Country ; and the Report of Lieut. W. H. C. Whiting's Reconnaissan- 

 ces of the Western Frontier of Texas. Senate Ex. Doc. No. 64, 31st 

 Congress, 1st Session; 250 pp. 8vo. Washington, 1850. — Like other 

 reports from officers under the. Bureau of Topographical Engineers, of 

 which Col. J. J. Abort is at the head, these Reports contain many ob- 

 servations of interest to science, and especially to the Geological and 

 Ethnographic departments. The volume is illustrated by 75 litho- 

 graphic plates and maps, the former containing views of scenery, of 

 Trap dykes and other geological phenomena, of both individual natives 

 and groups in their sports, of ancient hyeroglyphical inscriptions, and 

 numerous other subjects of interest. We reserve further notice for a 

 future number. 



2. The Banker^s Magazine and Statistical Register, edited by 

 J. Smith Homans, Esq. Published at Boston in monthly Nos. of 84 

 pages, at $5 per year. — Under the editorship of Mr. Homans, the Ban- 

 ker's Magazine is a work of general learning and research, and of wide V 

 and philosophical views with regard to moneyed relations and institutions 



at home and abroad. It also contains much detailed information re- 

 specting the production of the precious metals in different countries as 

 well as their circulation, besides facts and opinons on various collateral 

 topics. 



The August number, among its many excellent articles, contains a 

 sketch of the early history of banking, with a variety of details which 

 render the magazine of the first importance to bankers, and to well in- 

 formed merchants. 



The publisher of this able periodical gives notice that the followmg 

 important and interesting works will be embodied in the volume for the 

 year besinnln^ July 1851, and endincr June 1852 : — 1. New varieties 

 of gold and silver coins and bullion, with important details relatmg to 

 the coinage, rules of the Mint, &:c. ; by Jacob R. Eckfeldt and W. E. 

 Dubois, Assayers of the U. S. Mint. 2. The American Law of Bank- 

 ing, a synopsis of the decisions of the higher courts of every State m 



