450 . Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
. the processes of growth or developement, and then the particular struc- 
tures presented by the different types of animal forms. The work 
closes with chapters on the fundamental relations of type series, and 
the essential idea of the animal structure. 
tlas von Nord America, nach den neuesten Materialen, in 18 
Blattern ‘mit erlauterndem Texte, herausgegeben von Henry Lance. 
Braunschweig, 1854. G. Westermann.—This Atlas of North Ameri- 
ica contains 18 plates.—The first is a general map of North America; 
the next twelve are devoted to the several states of the United States ; 
the 14th to British America; the 15th is an ethnographical chart; the 
16th illustrates the distribution of mammalia over North America; the 
17th the distribution of plants; the 18th is an enlarged map of San 
Francisco, the Sacramento and San Joaquin. The maps, although small, 
are admirably executed, and are remarkable for the fidelity with which 
they give recent results. The form of the Atlas is a broad quarto, and 
with each plate there is a leaf of text containing statistical details. 
6. Of the Plurality of Worlds, an Essay. 279 pp. 18mo. Lon- 
don, J. Parker & Son.—The author of this able essay, whose name 
does not appear on the title page, endeavors to prove that our own 
world is the only one in space which is inhabited by rational beings. 
The argument is conducted with consummate skill and great power, 
usually with fairness, although sometimes sophistical when direct reason- 
ing was insufficient, and in all parts with ennobling thoughts of man’s 
or little above that of water, is regarded as mostly liquid ; Saturn, 
which is not heavier than cork, as made up mainly o liquid and 
vapor; and thus all the outer planets are stated to be unfitted 
from their nature as well as the absence of light and heat, for the 
higher orders of life. The Earth, the largest of the solid planets, 
is in the temperate zone of the Planetary system, and air, earth an 
water have here their most equable relations. ‘The argument respect 
ing the fixed stars carries far less, we should say, very little, probability 
with it. The work has been republished in this country. 
these deductions; 
the vb goes to an extreme the opposite of that of ‘* The Plurality of 
orlds.” . i 
28. Sixty-seventh Annual Report of the Regents of the Univer sity 
of the State af New York, 316 pp. he Albany, 1854.—This - 
port; like its predecessors, contains much information in the departmes 
of Meteorology, besides the various Schoo! Reports. 

