Miscellaneous Intelligence. (i 
keeping. Professor Worthen orcs that about it will be built 
up an institution of science that w e an important addition to 
the educational resources of the Wes 
At St. Louis, Ae aah the “St. Louie Museum of Arts — 
Sciences” has recently been instituted. It includes among 1 
officers the names of prominent men of science of Missouri, oe 
mies to be a center of great see activity. 
Earthquake oceanic wave of May 9th and 10th, 1877.—The 
Monthly Weather Review for May, published by the Signal Ser- 
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rise ximum) 2% - an the seiokiead Islands, on eastern 
Hawaii, at Hilo, a and the great wave, 36 feet high, came 
in - 4h 4 45’; at eae first felt at 4° 45’, and the great wave 
at 5 
Rey Coan, in a letter to one of the editors dated Ma 
states that “ thirty- -six hours subsequent to the catastrophe at ile 
the pulsations of the tidal wave still continued, the incoming and 
outflowing wave oomepeng about an hour, the latter leaving the 
channels nearl 
4, 
- 180 pp. 12°. Philadelphia, 1877, eB feos 
& ‘Haffalfinger. )—This tr eatise discusses the various questions that 
arise in the construction ‘of lightning rods, and their application 
to different kinds of structures. The great defect of most light- 
ning rods, that of imperfect earth resent ai with the remedies, 
are very fully treated. The directions are such that an intelligent 
mechanic can n carry them into effect 
With nee minor statements of the author we should not agree. 
Thus (p. 76) he says, “a building over 100 feet square cannot be 
are employed through the interior, etc.” The book, Shakes asa 
commended. 
5. Natural See ang Banas: y Part I, the Proj 
and Flu 1 To 
A., F. 
368 pp. small teem Lo ei ” 1877. (MacMillan & Co.)—The 
character of this little work will be best understood by the follow- 
ing quotation from the author’s preface :—“ The design of the 
Work is to furnish a simple and trustworthy manual for those who 
ire beginning the study of natural philosophy ; and it ventures 
claim a distinct position among the numerous publications 
