‘426 Scientific Intelligence. 
Miller, a new and original Treatise under the title of Phillips’s Mineral- 
° 1852) ; C. F. Plattner, an enlarged edition of his extended Trea- 
tise on the Blowpipe (1853): besides the great work of Dr. ‘Gustav 
Bischof, on Chemical and Physical Geology, begun in 1846, now num- 
bering 2950 pages, (the last issue in 1853), and yet wanting another 
part to be complete ; also G. H. Otto Volger’s Essays on the Develop- 
ment of Minerals, (Studien zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Mineral- 
ien,) as the basis of Scientific Geology and a rational Mineral Chemis- 
try, (Ziirich, 1854); and von Waltershausen’s Treatise on the olca- 
nic Rocks of Sicily and Iceland. Moreover, various valuable papers 
have been issued in Scientific Journals and Transactions abroad, by 
gott, Schabus, Kokscharov, Scacchi, Meneghini, Delesse, Damour, Ve- 
ville, Descloizeaux, Senarmont, Chapman, Mallet, Scott, Percy, and 
other able investigators. In this country have appeared Part I. of the 
Prof. C. U. Sh 
Brush, have labored with important results in American Mineralogy, 
clearing away many doubtful species ; and other researches have been 
published by T. S. Hunt, F. A. Genth, J. C. Booth, J. D. Whitney, 
a U. Shepard, J. W. Mallet, W. P. Blake, M. H. Boye and T.-H. 
arrett. 
portance. Mineralogy was well nigh a lifeless Science, having only 
powers of increase by accretion, like the objects of which it treats,— 
the same department, prominent among whom, are Haidinger, Volger, 
Breithaupt, Blum, Bunsen ‘and Delesse. 
* s Reports on the Geology of Canada, 1849-1858, should here be added, 
as they contain much that is ‘luailo ix Mnocaage Seat Geology- ee 
