449 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
contrary, there is a continuous diminution of pressure northward, 
from Australia and Mauritius to the interior of Asia. It wil be 
one gen eral movement of t ~ronasooare ich in of its mani- 
festations has been long sepia to meteorologists sale the name 
of the great November wave, but of which no very satisfactory 
account has yet been given. 
In addition to these changes in the monthly — of the 
pressure, it is  pemandae that a system of low pressures traverses the 
continent of A , following the sun’s course; but since the 
grounds of this supposition have been recently laid before the So- 
ciety, in a paper on “ The Determination of Heights, chiefly in the 
ss Interior of Siuticiente, by Observations of Atmospheric Pres- 
ure,”* it is not necessary to reproduce them here. ey probable 
pene for the months is shown on the separate c 
3. Loyal Society of London.—Fifty-three oqndidatas have 
offered themselves for the ee of the Royal Society during 
the present session, and in June next fifteen out of the number 
-~ a elected.—. Athenceum, Mar 
Prizes for Com —The as adem my of Sciences - Vienna 
bays offered eight iors medals for the spree? of as many com- 
ets duri nits Boge pe ee years.—Athen., ibi 
pituaRY.—Maanvs, of Berlin, the physkciit, ‘died in that city, 
on the ath of April. 
VI. MISCELLANEOUS BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
b PW itatae J. Pace antlin of « stoi Seasons in 
Shr 100 pp. 12mo. New York, 1870. (Harper & & ss 
and in aise Those he have read his lively “Three Seasons 
need not he told that he erent es theme wit point and tide? 
ity, as well as with a discrimina udgment. Mr. Flagg 
no claim 2 a scientific knowledge “: arp apnea bey but he clearly 
another genus, is certainly fig ae by the a "and ana’ 
ication of flour reads the 
ion of 
Book, must Hon a the author’s closing words, and 
_ It is probably a misprint which states the « gramme” 
-* Proceedings of the Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. vi, p. 465. 
