296 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
London and New York: H. Bailliére, 1854. 12mo, pp. 340.—This is a 
most timely contribution to the small amount of real knowledge pos- 
sessed by even intelligent foreigners of the many various races which 
make up the population of Russia. The great interest universally felt 
including all those nations who have been conquered by the ruling race 
or absorbed into its io aie ed acceptable. The volume is ac- 
companied by a reduced copy of the great Ethnological and Statistical 
Map of Russia which was published in 1852 by the Imperial Geograph- 
ical Society of St. Petersbur 
The author recognises three chief constituent — in the Russian 
Empire, viz., the Ugrian, the Turk and the Sarmatian. These original 
races are now subdivided into no less iy shiny sak tribes each dis- 
tinguished on rs map by a separate c 
atham is beyond doubt the beisiex authority in our language on 
all ethnological topics, and his prese a little volume will be 
— ne with avidity by thousands who would have hesitated to grap- 
ple w more extended work, while pan amount of new facts and 
new summaries of old facts i is such as to reward the peru of all. 
mo wood or pie can be had at 343 ane te ws of J. B, Luhme & 
Co., of Berlin 
Britis ona roceedings for 1853. London, 
S. S. Garr sie Ch fhe Investigations on Radix Guesng * Ameri ricana, Oleum 
Chenopodii An ntl, and Oleum Menthe viridis. Inaugural Dissertation. 24 
1854. 
ROCEEDINGS oF HE Acap. Nar. Scr. Pattapenpata, Vol. VII, No. 6.—p. 1 
Characteristics of some of the Cartilaginous fishes of the Pacific Coast of Paes 
meri i R 
A a: i bstract of a Report to Lie U.S.. 
N., on the Fishes collected during the U. S. N. Astronomical Expedition to Chili, C. 
Girard.—p. , Fossi s from the banks of the Ohio, Ind tay — 
203, Loxia leucoptera abundant near Philadelphia ; J. Cassi syd Abstract of 
Expe g c 
membranes upon Chemical Substances passi ng sah Ja them : by Endo smosis; J- 
Jones.—p. 209, On the question of the identity of Bootherium cavifrons with Ov ibos 
. Lei 
moschatus ; y.—p. 211, Descriptions of the Sheciea of Trox and Omorgus In- 
habiting the United States ; J. L. LeConte.— 6, Some corrections in the No- 
menclature of Coleoptera found in the United States; J. L. LeConte—p. 220, De- 
scriptions of new Coleoptera, collected by T. an Webb, M.D., in the years 1850, ’51, 
2, while Secretary to the U. —e rt Commission ; e gre 
. 226, Abstract of a Report to Lieut. J. M. Gillis , U. S.N, on the Reptiles col- 
fected during the U.S. N. lcacmaied “iefiedicon to Chili ; 0. Girard— —p. 227, A 
List of Pasons of the Genus Car rpophaga, in the Acade emy of Nat, Sei Philadel 
phia, and of the U. 8. Exp. Exped. (Vincennes and Peacock,) Washington 
: ; : ; 
i ical wit . Genth.—Chem 
tices; C. M. Wetherill.—p. 236, Rectification of Mr. 'T. A. Conrad's Sig gee the 
for Feb. 1 , Lea 
Pecukaman OF Aca. Nar. Ser, San Fran 1, New Fishes of the Genus 
Sebastes; Centrarchus ; Morrhua, Gryetes aero Clypeocottus robustus = Aspi- 
cottus bison of Girard : Brosmius marginatus A.; Syngnathus thepeere™ 3 
poe acutirostris 4., A. brachyrh : eros elongat a ustelus 
= omus occidentalis A., Gila dis A.—all yres, 
"to 18 all that we have received of the Proceédings—p. 14, Deseri ot Lane 
(n. sp.); Dr. Kellogg, 
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