Miscellaneous Intelligence. 167 
oe to a report from the Pacific Steamer, Australia) on the 
ing of the 11th of none 8 (Australian tim ime). At 5" 208 a. M. 
ae tide uage at Fort Denison recorded the first of the series of 
waves. The oscillations continued through the day and reached 
their maximum at 2 p.m. the height then being three feet six 
inches. Retegeaaca from New Zealand report that similar waves 
were felt on the east coast, from the Bay of Islands to the bluff, 
seus eg at 5 o’clock a. m. The maximum height was six feet. 
3. Tides of the Arctic Seas.—These tides are mathematically 
diacabeps by Prof. S. Haughton in papers published in the Pro- 
ceedings of the Royal Society, the last of which (Part vii) was 
sae on the 17th of February last. 
4, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. —In connec- 
tion with this excellent institution, laboratories for the instruction 
exclusively of women were open for occupancy on the 23d of 
October last, and have been in successful operation through the 
winter and spring. The design is to afford facilities for the ad- 
vanced study of Chemical Ana alysis, mee ogy and Chemistry as 
related to Vegetable and Animal Physio logy and to the Industrial 
Arts. The laboratories are nena in arrangement and are 
furnished with all needed apparatus. The laboratory is under the 
charge and tle abs of Protea John M. Ordway and Mrs 
Robert H. Rich The terms are $200 a year for a full term 
of eight preg six c anys per week. Students are also taken for 
one or two days per week, 
oes Transfer of the ag gh rong to Amherst College.— 
The scientific resources of t College have recently been 
These collections have been for more than twenty-five years de- 
posited in the Amherst wine Museum; and while there they 
have been ever increasin a in extent ee the - and — 
mg the collections in zoo be otany and archeolo 
ay will to the Tastitution, with which Professor Shepard ‘i 
ong been connected ole are now transferred to the ssa 
for little more than half oe sum. The collection of meteorites 
ranks fourth in the world, and no institution in this country pos- 
— a superior ee of _— _ 
6. Imperial y of Sciences of St. Petersburg. — This 
Academy hi has published 1 Part I. 84 a Aeisiied index volume to its 
Eoreige ies covering 490 8vo pages and including the articles 
in foreign la) 
- National feces Seiences.—The Academy has recently 
published vol. I, of Bicaraphionl Memoirs, 344 pp. 8vo, contain- 
ing memoirs of a S. Hubbard, J. G. Totten, B, Silliman, E. 
Hitchcock, J. M. Gilliss, A. D. Bache, J. H. Alexander, W. Chau- 
venet, J. F. Frazer, J. H. Coffin, J. Torrey, W. S. Sullivant, - 
Saxton , H. J. Clark and J. Winlock. Also volume I, of Procee 
ings of the Academy. 120 pp. 8vo. 
