Miscellaneous Intelligence. 437 
the dry land would form an equatorial belt, while the poles would be 
enveloped in water. The dimensions of these circumpolar oceans, with 
the assumed ellipticity of Mars, could be also assigned, and they should 
. exist on its surface, unless there should be great irregularities in the density 
draw any conclusion from the results hitherto observed, and especially 
: . 
© 
2 
Ss 
BY 
o 
=} 
— 
ee 
o 
s 
a 
fas] 
a 
D 
or 
wn 
° 
S 
o 
o 
@® 
n 
= 
i 
eo] 
o 
© 
a 
= 
a 
= 
Pp 
» 
3 
a 
hamal 
> 
@ 
= 
ce 
¢ 
le 
@ 
_ 
—_ 
= 
Dp 
= 
oS 
i 
e 
ances are partly due to the presence of a liquid on its surface, we must 
conclude that its ellipticity has been generally exaggerated, and that the 
results of Bessel and Johnson’s observations are, upon the whole, nearer 
to the truth than those of other observers.— Proc. Brit. Assoc., from the 
Atheneum, Sept. 24, 1864. 
V. MISCELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE, 
1, Discovery of Lake-habitations in Bavaria; by Prof. Drsor.—The 
following account of the discovery of ancient lake-habitations in Bavaria, 
is from the Journal de Genéve of June 9th and July 6th. Prof. Desor 
Prof. Liebig was, to his great regret, unable to 
pany us. We began ot explorations on the right bank of the lake ; 
this offered us only some Roman remains of little importance. We 
reached a little island situated on the left bank, in face of the new sum- 
mer palace of King Max, now in process of erection. Here seemed to 
be a place where we might reasonably expect to find the remains of 
those ancient structures, if any had ever existed about the lake; and in 
fact we had not made the tour of the island before we discovered many 
me, 
DO! 1 ‘ 
fir, were so distinct that we could count through the water, here three 
: feet deep, the rings of growth of the trunk. The wearing of the piles 
at this place is i action of iee. 
Prof. vy. Siebold was 
delighted at the sight of these foundations, counting back thousands of 
