246 Miscelluneous Intelligence. 
trait of Captain Hall, and a steel engraved frontispiece of the 
Polaris. 
It is a aces to know also that Professor Nourse is now 
engaged in preparing for publication Captain nage Journals 
ring his second expedition, 1864-69, in obedience to a resolu- 
tion introduced into the U.3. Senate, February: - 1877, by Mr. 
Sargen B. 8. 
The American aoe Joun H. Tice, Editor. In 
monthly numbers of 32 8vo. Saint Louis, Missouri.—The 
second volume of this J eae consisting of six monthly numbers, 
commenced with January of the current year. The author holds 
ena, and their causes, and presents them in his Monthly. Facts 
are, in his opinion, in “irrepressible conflict,” as he expresses it, 
with ordinary physical theories. 
The American Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics. 
ose this title, a much needed addition to the scientific jour- 
nals of the country, will soon fe made, under the asrpes of the 
Johns Hopkins University. The editors announced a J. SYL- 
VESTER, BENJAMIN Perrcr, Stmon Newcoms, H. re OWLAND, 
and Ws. E. Story, the first were of Mathematics in the 
* Associate-Editor-in-Charge.” Four numbers. in quarto, will for 
the tees be issued annually, making a volume each year of 384 
pages. e price is five dollars a volume. ‘The first number will 
appear in erwrel he Subscriptions and contributions should 
i. aise to ig am E, Srory, Johns Hopkins University, 
Reldwects.: Marylee 
4. Publications oe the Cincinnati Observatory.—Two numbers 
—2 and 3—have recently been issued in a ae No. 2, eighteen 
pages, contains Micrometrical Measurements of 176 double and 
triple stars, observed with the 11-inch reflector of the Observatory 
by O. M. Mi tchell; Cincinnati, 1876; and No. 3, thirty-four in ie 
metri a 
triple stars, during t 38 years 1875-76, under _  otistee T° 
of fag ond Stone, A.M., Director, Cincinnati, 1 
Two New Meteorie trons. (Letter to a Shion )—I have 
had lately sent to me two new meteoric irons, one from Casey 
County, Kentucky, nd the other from Dalton, Whitfield County, 
Georgia. Descriptions and analyses of these will be published 
shortly. WRENCE SMITH. 
6. Table of Logarithms. —M. Gav s Vicnias has pub- 
lished in Paris a volume of logari shias: pion tee tables for all 
numbers from 0 to 434,000,000,000 with twelve decimals, by M. 
Belgium). This wonderful volume, selling at three francs, has 
been printed Py ae of the Royal Academy of Sciences of 
7. Tenth taal Basia of the Trustees of the Peabody 
Museum of American Archeology and Ethnology. Presented 
