150 Miscellaneous Bibliography. 
6. American Association.—The American Association for the 
Advancement of Science will hold its next meeting in Troy, com- 
mencing on the first Wednesday in August. Prof. William Chau- 
venet is the President for the year. 
. British Association.—The next meeting of the British Asso- 
ciation will be held at Liverpool on Wednesday, the 14th of Sep- 
tember, under the Presidency of Prof. Huxley. 
8. ApmiraL Russett Henry Manners, President of the Astro- 
nomical Society of London, died recently, aged 70 years. 
IV. MISCELLANEOUS BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
1. A concise analytical and logical Development of the Atmos- 
pheric System as God made it ; and the Elements of prognostica- 
tion by which the weather may be forecasted > designed as a 
Weather-book for the practical mind of the Country ; by Tuomas 
UTLER. 
mospheric System as Thomas B. Butler makes it.” The subject is 
too large a one to be discussed in a book notice; and we refer, 
therefore, to the volume for the views, which, according to the 
motto on the title page, is, in the author’s opinion, “ the truth 
[that] is mighty and will prevail.” 
nopsis of the Hxtinct Batrachia and Reptilia of North 
America: Part 24. By Epwarp D. Corz i rt of 
the i 
pha, and the Ophidia. The Testudinata are divided into two 
groups: the Cryptodira, represented by thirty-four species which 
of the Cheloniide is defined. Prof, Cope, through his labors, is 
throwing = light on the ancient vertebrate life of this continent. 
3. armies . 
e author gives a succinct, but very comprehensive, sum- 
mary of the more important elements and compounds, exhibiting 
