Miscellanies. 219 



Trichotropis costellatus. Testa ovatji, turrito-acut^, fusces- 

 cente, epiderrnide foliace^ luteo-albida tect& ; spir^ canaliculata ; an- 

 fractibus costis 5-rotundatis instructis ; apertura ovali, lutescente ; 

 labro costis indentato ; columella arcuate, albescente. 



The Polyps Tubularia indivisa, Ellis, T. coronata, Muller, Ophiura 

 lacertosa, Lam., Actinia plumosa, Mul. Actinia, senilis, Linn., have 

 also been observed by the author in the Massachusetts Bay. 



8. Third American Edition of BakewelVs Geology, from the fifth 

 and last of the author in London. — Professor Silliman is particularly 

 charged by Mr. Bakewell, with the care of a third American edition of 

 his Geology, to be printed from the fifth of the author. Mr. Bakewell 

 writes to Professor Silliman, under date of February, 1838, that the new 

 edition of his work would be out, in England early in March, and conse- 

 quently it may be daily expected in this country. It is enlarged by about 

 80 pages of new matter, has from 15 to 20 new cuts, and contains a 

 chapter on a new topic, relating to coal, hitherto overlooked by all geolo- 

 gists. This work will be printed with all convenient speed by B. dt/ W. 

 Noyes, booksellers and publishers in New Haven, and successors of Her- 

 rick &- Noyes, and of Hezekiah Howe. The edition will be superin- 

 tended by Professor Silliman, and by Mr. Robert Bakewell, Junior, son 

 of the author.* 



9. Olmsted's Natural Philosophy, 2 vols. 8vo. — A new and improv- 

 ed edition of this work, is in press, and will shortly be ready for delivery. 



10. Second report of the Geology of Maine. — Since the notices of the 

 geological reports were written, this has come to hand, but too late for 

 mention in our present number. 



INTELLIGENCE. 



1. Return of the Bonite, from a voyage around the world. — We are 

 happy to see it announced from the French papers, that the Bonite sloop 

 of war, which left Toulon on the 8th of Feb., 1836, has arrived at Brest, 

 after an absence of twenty-one months. The crew consisted of 151 

 men, under the command of M. Auguste Vaillant, Capitaine de Corvette. 



The return of this vessel was anxiously looked for by the scientific 

 world, in the belief, as well from the character of the scientific corps, as 

 from the specific instructions of M. Arago, and others of the Academy of 

 Sciences, that many important discoveries would be made, going far to- 

 ward the elucidation of interesting questions in magnetism, meteorology, 

 and other branches of science. For a knowledge of what has been ac- 

 complished we must await the published account of the voyage, which 

 the French government, with their former liberality, will no doubt soon 

 place in our hands. The scientific corps were, in botany, M. Gaudichaud, 



* For a notice of this gentleman see Vol. XXXI, No. 1, of this Journal. 



