a 
AMiscel‘aneous Intelligence. 401 
Vaud. Sci. Nat., Nos. 70, 71, 72).—The tables, which are the 
chief part of this important memoir, and must have cost the author 
next sheet, of an aaoedies color, ‘ait es the Pliocene and 
Miocene, under the head of the Neogen or Molassic period, for 
each of the seven subdivisions of which the names of a score or 
more of fossils are given, and in other columns, the localities and 
synonymy of different cans ies. ‘The third, of a bright yellow, 
comprises the ‘ Eocene or Nummulitic Period. he fourth, of a 
green color, the Cretaceous, under which fourteen subdivisions or 
Stages are given ; and so on through the series to the first of the 
Paleozoic. The tables will be found very convenient as a help 
toward eaeaincta yA yeah names of aay ont used in Europe, 
of 80° 15’ and 83°, the latter being the most northerly point ob- 
served. It is pale to be about as large as Spitzbergen, wit 
maeey fior ds and numerous islands off the coast. It is mountain- 
the ‘highest summit to the south, named ue Humboldt, is 5 ,000 
feet above the sea. Glaciers were of great extent. The ridges 
are dolomitic. Elk, hares, and traces of Siok and bears were 
isto d, and myriads of bi rds. 
Observaciones eLearn: y Meteorologicas del Colegio de 
Belen de la Compa a de Jesus, en la Habana, Ano Meteoro- 
ssary to pro- 
duce alcohol of the percentage indicated at the top of any column. 
us, to obtain alcohol for 80° from that of 94°, the number 94 is 
sought for in Mt first ed and opposite to it, under the col- 
“Required Strength,” “80°,” the numbers 808 and 192 in- 
dicate sapere the quantities, by weight, of alcohol of 94°, and 
