_— Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
Legislative Authority. 502 pp., 4to, with 3 plates and a map of t 
state.—Dr. Hough has performed an important service to Meteorolog; 
in his labors over this volume. All the various meteorological ob 
present number of stations is 62. _The Ta bles of each station are i 
en separately, for each month through the series of years, together with 
a seesaw of results, and comparisons of the Temperature 
inds, Rains, etc.—Afier thus going through with all the stations, - 
there is a general summary for the state in several fiferent, Wiles : 
me and abroad. Both their frequency at stations an 
of particular Auroras are mentioned as far as ascertained, and besias 
descriptions of some of special note. The observations of Capt 
froy and others in Canada are included, so that the tables hav 
tinental value. The volume isa heantifal specimen of typogr 
is every way creditable to a state under whose patronage 
has carried forward his labor * 
Wharton and Stillé on Y Medical Jurisprudence. A Tre atise on 
Medical Jurisprudence me Francis WHarton (author of “A me on 
American Criminal Law,” &c. Sot and Moreton Sritte, : 
learned treatise of Dr. Beck upon the same subject has long been 
esteemed by those whose duties as teachers or medical jurists. ha 
them to study its contents. ‘The present work covers all the imp 
t is a source of constant reare 
the untimely death of ly & c 
oF aint mind so able and well. 
