76 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
in Chicago to see if it is not possible to secure for him in some 
way the use of the telescope in the Observatory. or many 
years this large instrument (for a part of the time the largest 
refractor in the world) has lain idle, not at all to the credit of 
Chicago. It should have been steadily doing service in astrono- 
my, such service as almost no other instrument can do. Mr. 
Burnham has shown that he can do good work, and the friends of 
it. 
t. The eann a Monthly Review o Astronomy.  Ed- 
ited by W. H. M. Curtstre, M.A. Nos and 2, April and 
ay.—This is a new monthly of thirty- two kon published by 
Taylor & Francis, London. For convenience of American sub- 
scribers currency will the received at the rate of one dollar for 
three months’ subscriptio ese two numbers contain accounts 
of the April and May sinesene of the Royal Astr. Soc.; and the 
following besides other articles : Photographic Spectra of Stars, by 
Huggins; Determination of the Solar Parallax, by D. Gill; 
the Twinkling of the Stars, by E. Ledger; also Notes, Corre- 
— Memoranda, Ephemer erides, &e. 
8. An Hlementary Treatise on Elliptic Functions ; y by ARTHUR 
Caytry. Deighton, Bell & oe Cambridge and London. 8°, 
1876.—There has ol hitherto no elementary separate trea- 
tise in English upon ee finda tions. The thanks ae sien ma- 
ticians are due to Professor Cayley for supplying the An 
excellent feature of the book is the general outline hich ‘fils the 
rst chapter. 
V. MISCELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
1. American Association.—The American Association will hold 
its twenty- -sixth meeting in Nashville, during the week commenc- 
ing with the 29th of August. The Local Committee is oe 
of Cam 
an nd O. C. Marsa, of New Fern Me J. Berrien Lindsley is 
Secretary of the Local Cosnnitter: 
ew American Scientific Museums.—A bill to establish & 
Historical Library and Natural History Museum at Springfield, 
Tllinois, has been passed by the Se of the State. It appro 
riates to it one of the large halls of the New Capitol building. 
The valuable collections made in pinta Mh with the Sake lets 
survey of the State, many specimens of which are the types 0 
species described in the volumes of Reports, will here have safe 
