158 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
ITV. MISCELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
1. Smithsonian Report for 1872. 456 pp. 8vo. 1873. (Govern- 
ment Printing Office.)—This is the twenty-seventh of the series 
of annual Reports of the Smithsonian Institution. The Report 
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raster is fully set forth, aiid: its essential wisdom shown by its 
good results. With an income of only about $45,000, by the use 
sent, and from whom returns reach its archives. e Sm A cre 
Ooneributions (quarto) have now reached seventeen ponderous 
volumes, _— lees original memoirs. nei Miscellaneous Contri- 
ra ‘story, fe ei bat an other de epartinents as science de- 
payment of = staff, require ed a wise aia frugal administration of 
its funds to avoid the shoals of Lee), Under the conduct 
of its distinguished Secretary, and his Assistant Secretary, Prot. 
Baird, the Smithsonian erupaee = selpeite a poe a com- 
manding i influence for good in ers of science. A Ih- 
dex of these annual Reports Ay ae close of the thirtieth wotahie 
(that for 1875) would add greatly to their value. 
2. Seventh Annual Report of the Trustees of the Peabody 
Museum of American Archeology a Ethnology. 42 pp. 8V0- 
Cambridge, 1874.—The Report opens with an account of the 
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capacity 33 cubic inches 8, or 44 per t of the average Peruvian 
cranium, and much smaller than the 6 crania of some Peruvian chil- 
dren soe over seven ters of age. Though probably idiotic, aor 
is stated that the bones were not deposited as in ordinary buri 
rderly erage secondly, they were broken, 
to asize suitable for t e vessels used in cooking 5 
jictesala. 
3. ‘Geological Survey of Hokkaido: Yesso Coals. A Report 
by Huyry 8. Mungoz, E.M. 39 pp. 12mo. Tokei. 1874. Pub- 
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