446 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
height of woman one-twentieth less, so = the mean of both sexes will 
be 1°60 meters, and of woman 1°56 m 
i size of man is often expressed i: Oe number of heads it equal 
and in a person well proportioned it corresponds to 8 heads. The 
height of the head will consequently be 20 centimeters. Mr. Silberm 
has observed that when the arms are thrown up a we height of 
the body to the tip of the middle finger is 10 heads or 2 meters, and tw 
men in a line, would make 4 meters. He remarks that this length of 4 
meters or 20 heads plays an naa part in nature; and after various 
observations, he has arrived a er of laws as to the proportions in 
the human body. Thus the sleek of the articulations are successively, 
4 gt, ott ahs, &e. [The account is not sufficiently explicit to 
make it clear how or where these proportions are all obtained.] Silber- 
mann a that the results he has arrived at accord with those of the 
the navel as the center. These 4 facts are ealirned by M. Silbermann. — 
12. Bibliography.—Astronomie Populaire d’ Arago, vol. iii, and Wott- 
ces Scientifiques, vol. iii. Paris. Gide et Baudry—The first of these 
works we have noticed. The second work treats of light-houses, fortifica- 
tions, artesian borings, filtration and elevation of water, free srehangss 
protection and patents. 
Vicror Masson has issued— 
Etudes Higa Sega pour servir & 0 Histoire des Sciences, by Paul 
Antoine Cap. 1 vol. 12mo, of 408 pages.—This work is the first part of 
a series of Sees heal notices of chemists and naturalists. The volume 
issued, treats of Paracelsus, Palissy, Van Helmont, Moses Charas, rt 
Boyle, Lemery, Rouelle, Van Mons, Labarraque, Bernard Courtois, Dupas- 
quier, etc. The notices are well written and in an agreeable style. 
Hydrotimétrie, ou Nouvelle Méthode pour déterminer les propor- 
tions des matiéres en dissolution dans les eaux de sources a de rivieres, 
Bourrox and Bouper. Pamphlet of 52 pp. 8vo —Starting 
from the precipitation of calcareous salts by soap water, a reaction Seeset 
first by Clarke to the determination of lime, MM. Boutron and 
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