432 . Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
herical axonometric and oblique projections. For colleges and 
Scientific Schools ; S. Epwarp W ; j vo 
ew York, 1877, (John Wiley & Sons).—A salou work for 
students in descriptive geomet It is intended as a concis 
- humerous examples in connection with the successive 
ro 
ts iisitbtonde Report for 1876.—Many are the ways in which 
the Smithsonian Institution is promoting the progress of science 
in the land. One among these, of very wide influence, is the pub- 
lication, in its Annual Report, of an appendix containing memoirs 
on scientific subjects. Among the memoirs in the Report for 1876 
there are the following: 
Eulogy of aay Lussac, by M. Arago; a biographical sketch of 
Dom Pedro II, by A. Fialho ; a paper reviewing the kinetic 
theories a Gravitation, by W. B. Taylor; on the Revolutions of 
the Crust of the Ea rth, y Prof. G. Pilar , of Brussels; on the 
Antecids ek eseas Mars and Jupiter, i > Kir — and vari- 
rin Ethnological ceri yrogne m _ relics. 
RECEIVED TOO LATE FOR FURTHER NOTICE HERE. 
Paleontology of the Geological Survey of the State of New York: epee ron 
of Devin Fossils, Gasteropoda, Pteropoda, Cephalopoda, Crustacea, an 
Publi ont of N rk, by authority of the 
Legislature of the State of New York, nearly 150 plates, 4to. Albany, 1877 
Twenty-eighth Annual Report of the New Yor useum of Natural His- 
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tory, by the Regents of the University of the State of New York (ex-officio Trus- 
tees of the Museum). Transmitted to the eulgeigie ieee 30, 1875; peau 
a paper by James Hall, consisting of 34 plates of fossils of the Nia agara group of 
Central Indiana with explanations, and important sth on Trilobites, etc., Sey 
C. D. Waleott, with a Botanical Report, by C. H. Peck. 
OBITUARY. 
Urs J. Leverrier, the French astronomer, died on Sun- 
day, tha: 23d of September, - — age of sixty-six, having been 
born a the 11th of March, 1 
Joun G. Antuony, the Nauiahloplst: Professor in Harvard Col- 
lege, Cambrid e, Mass., died on the 9th of October, aged seventy- 
ep years. e was born in Providence, Rhode Island, May 17, 
1 
Bensamin HatLoweEtt, author of a work on Geometrical Anal- 
ysis, died at Nair Hill, Montgomery wiser Maryland, in his 
seventy-eighth year. 
