142 Miscellaneous Bibliography. 
peculiar flora, and a cabinet of our fossils and minerals, of wide 
scientific interest. Unfort rtunately for the cause of science his col- 
lection was distributed among the colleges or otherwise ajepoued 
of, and the results of his labors are lost. 
Lorp Rossz, the Astronomer, died Oct. 31, aged 67 years. 
IV. MISCELLANEOUS BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
from Colton’s Seopeiiies establishment. 16 pp. 8vo. $la year. 
New York, one 186 nes Number ese G. — = C. B. Col- 
as a record of discovery, exploration and surve 
ber contains a summary of what is known in respect to Aldi, 
Mercator’s ghee The Journal also contains a selection of 
items pertaining to recent discoveries and investigations on differ- 
obe. 
they will render a good service to scientific readers. 
ae oe, is dated October, 1867; the second has not yet reached us. 
The Cambridge course of Elementary Physics. Part First. 
Bodcston. Adhesion, Chemical affinity, and Electricity. By W. 4. 
Roure and J. A, Gr ILLET, Teachers in the Hi gh School, Cambridge, 
s. Boston, Crosby & Ainsworth, 1868. 12mo, pp. vi, 324.— 
is book aims to be a collection of leading principles, ae than 
a mere oad of facts. The molecular attractions, cohesion 
and adhesion, are very well treated from the ue o stand-point. 
The chemical part follows in the main, the order ann’ 
modern chemistry. The new notation is used, but jek to the fo il 
fitting a of the old. Facts too, are rather scarce ; the 
contents 0 each section 
