163 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
8. Bulletin of the Bussey Institution, Vol. ii, Part 2. 
8vo. Boston, 1877.—This number contains the following papers 
by F. H. Storer: (1) on ihe composition of certain Pumpkins and 
cn - record of results obtained on saasdysilie seeds : 
on growi wk ti 
Pit-sand and of Coal-ashes; a nd the e following = W. G, Farlow 
No _ on some Common diseases caused by Fungi. 
9. Dynamics, or Theoretical Meolunaiess a by J. T. BorroMLey, 
M.A., F.R.S.E., F.C.S. 142 pp., small 8vo. New York, 1877. 
G. P. Putnam & Sons.—This little mak tna one of the vol- 
ume s ent 
ciples of mechanics are presented with clearness and precision, 
without the introduction of difficult mathematics, and it is thus 
an excellent book for the class of students for whom it was pre- 
pared. 
Eighth Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts, January, 
1877. 498 pp. 8vo, = a maps. <A Report of high scientific gre The 
chief topics are: Pollut f streams; sewerage; sanitary condition of Lynn; 
registration of deaths ah pM growth of children ; disease of the mind (by 
Dr. C. F. Folsom); health of tei 
Science Lectures at South Kensington. The Steam Engine, by F. J. Bramwell. 
62 pp. 12mo, with iifeberatiouat London and New York, 1877. (Macmillan & Co.) 
OBITUARY. 
Sansorn Tenney.—Sanborn Tenney, Professor of Geology and 
Natural History in Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., died 
ee on the eleventh of July, at Buchanan, Michigan, while 
o Jhicago, the mri of cht of a Williams 
unt 
was the projector and leader. Professor Tenney was the author 
of rent e text-books on sty Sah and 
PHEN REE — Ree died on, on the twelfth of July at 
: INSLOW, M. D. — Dr. Winslow, formerly of Bos 
— weeny in Ut ah, a ave ars. He is the hor oe 
ork entitled “ Cosm y, ® Puttosophical views of the 
Sebati ablished at rt Becton in 1853, also later of one on “ Na- 
ture and pho ;” and, besides, of short papers on some Earth- 
uakes, in this J ournal, and on the discoveries of human resus in 
alifornia, "ae some other po ne 
