240 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
The telegraphic dispatches above alluded to were as follows: 
ts assembled at Northumberland, Penn.: Our marble statue 
representing Priestley discovering oxygen will be unvai 
by the subscribers through Professor Huxley to the town, and accepted by the 
Mayor. We greet you as colleagues in honoring the memory of a great and good 
man. THE PRIESTLEY MEMORIAL COMMITTEE, 
Birmingham, Eng. 
NORTHUMBERLAND, Penn., July 31, 1874. 
The brother chemists at the grave to their brothers at the home of Priestley 
send greeting, on this centennial anniversary of the birth of chemistry. 
We understand that the addresses will appear in a Memorial 
number of the American Chemist, soon to be published, which 
will contain also a full account of the proceedings, B. S. 
Elements of Metallurgy, &e. ; by J. Arr 
M.Ins.C.E., F.G.8. 764 pp. 8vo, with 205 illustrations on wood. 
London, 1874. hi 
Mr. Phillips’s well known “Manual of Metallurgy” (1852, 1854 
and 1858) bears date June, 1874, It is in fact a new boo 
brought within a moderate compass, The author’s own practical 
skill and experience, both in metallurgical operations and in per- 
sonal explorations of many of the metalliferous regions and work- 
i d 
ings de ed, a to the value of his wo It is especially 
interesting to American readers from its ft equent citations of 
American example ome omissions we note: for example, unde 
Phillips’s Metal lurgy. 
A letter received by us from Dr. Smith States that the apparent in- 
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his part, and desires us to request that those having the work 
should change the wording of the note (p. 109) by substituting 
‘associated with” for “assisted by.”—Eps. 
On the Marine Mammals of the North Pacific, b 0 U. 8. 
genes _ y Capt. C. M. Scammon, U. 
coe yvice.  4to, with many plates. San’ Francisco, 1874. (John H. Car- 
My Visit to the Sun; or Critical Essays on Physi i i 
; miles ysics, Metaphysics, and Ethics. 
a a <_ Vol. I. Physics. 158 pp. 8vo. ‘New You, 11d (James 
