512 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
A. M. Mayer. —On a new and simple method of determining the number of 
vibrations of ba ous bodies 
—On con development of haere et 
caer the Morphology of the Anitle ae vide. 
test Loomis.—Contributions to Mete crology (ih yper). 
Henry L. Aspot.—Velocity of transmission ineke caused by the explosion 
of gunpowder and of a ar gi compounds, th ig the earth’s crust. 
JOSEPH HENRY. abnormal snag f ound. in relation to Fog 
— aia behalf « of t ine w. 8. Light House 
. N. Roop.—(1.) On the photometric comparison of Lh of different colors.— 
(2) ‘Ona a ee the study of the contrast o 
Dr. Tats nek method of studying of Signs of Sound in Wood. 
Presented hee "0. | N. 
J. S. NEWBERRY. Bor ) ‘On some new fossil ee from Ohio and Indiana.— 
(2. y “9 the geological age of ee hilyoanee Ligni 
AWRENCE SMITH.—(1.) mn the s,m of Columbates.—(2.) Notes on 
Pe Pac iron and basalt of Greenland. —( fe sete te ns sie of specimens showing 
the occurrence of rape of chromium 
JamMES Hatu.—Note on the Hedemutie ag regeciae ‘and associated strata at the 
Falls of of the Ohi 
O. C. Marsa rit .) On some gigantic Dinosaurian Reptiles from the Wealden 
of the Rocky Mountains.—(2.) American Cretaceous Birds. 
H. A. NEwtTo 
f Locu 
JosePH LECoNTE. —On the gly: eopeaie tenitotel of the Liver, and its relation to 
vital force and vital 
A. GUYOT. —Biggrapia memoir of Louis Agassiz. 1st part, relating to his 
life and work in 
6. Canada and 1 New England ab einagl —A paper on this 
recent earthquake by Prof. Rockwood, f Princeton, N. J., 
swill appear in another number of this Souris 
7. Thin Sections of Rocks, Minerals, ete., e made to order 
by A. A. Julien, School of Mines , Columbia Dollese, New York, 
who also has made arrangements for sawing an lishing rocks, 
and polishing and Sen oe He has also collections of 
slides of various rocks on 
OBITUARY. 
JAMES Orton, Professor of Natural History in Vassar Sehr: 
died in Bolivia about the 24th of September while crossing 
acca and oa buried on a little island in the lake. He sass 
at Seneca F rane N. Y., in the year 1830, and graduated at 
is thi our 
to South America, In 1867-68, he took charge of an expedition 
to the Upper Am gage under the auspices of the Smithsonian 
in 1873, he made a secant ke exploration of the enetrati ing 
to Bolivia. About ten months since “af cial for ‘his thin ex loring 
tour, with the design of tracing the waters of Eastern Bolivia to 
This Journal contains partied wer from 
peared 
the Continent of South America,” giving a full account of 
observations and discoveries. 
