268 Scientific Intelligence. 
endeavors, experimentally, to connect granite with electricity, having 
this very object in view (Phil. Trans. — p- 1); but the results were 
cp negative. The view, if hel a moment, would imply that 
not merely the sun, but all matter, i toa its state, would have extta 
powers set up in it, if removed in any degree ite ee 5 that 
the particles of a comet at its perihelion would hav har- 
acter, by the conversion of some portion of their neleadas ‘ones into 
the increased amount of gravitating force which they would oe exert; 
and that at its aphelion, this extra gravitating force woul e been 
potent aera into some other kind of molecular force, hehe either 
the for or a new character: aes capers either way being toa 
cine: pot gs One c not even conceive of the dif- 
fusion of a cloud of dust, or its so into a ores without sup- 
posing something of the same kind to occur; and I suppose that no- 
body will accept the idea as possible. The third mic neeonine 
ticle of matter which has existence. The case of a constant necessary 
condition to action in space, when as respects the sun the earth is not 
i 
which Newton looked at in vista is, in nig as respects, the 
same as that admitted by all in regard to light, heat, and radiant phe- 
nomena ; and (in a sense even more genera! rand ex tensive) i is that now 
driven a our attention in an especially forcible and instructive man- 
ner, by the phenomena of acon and magnetism, because of their 
dependence on dual forms of power 
II. GEouoey. 
lished with full details and figures. ‘The important pamphlet here re- 
ferred to gies in brief some of the geological results in anticipation of 
eport. The nes are of special interest to the science, 4 and 
we cite the eneral conclusions. 
a © Coated on the Fossil Shells collected in Cali- 
feria by Wm. P. Bl lake-—I have examined the very intere ang sd 
ganic remains which you collected in California, and the drawings of 
such species as were too fragile to preserve, and I herein submit a few 
semesks upon the: pate relations. yds appear to be several 
it I cannot preten sc 
eins cP every oi Agee 
resting on the deposits of Santa Barbara and San Pedro, 
Shapes be ape a aig ati 
