404 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
had himself made original observations on the subject. It is illus- 
trated by a plate of one of the s sun-spots, which is as wonderfully 
well executed as the spot is marvelous in itself. 
This eens semester d devoted to physics and practical chem- 
try, as well as mechanical — is now edited by Prof. George 
F. Barker (Professor of Physics in the University of Pennsylva- 
dn sind: 
10, paar of the Wisconsin Academy si —— — 
and Letters, Madison » Wisconsin ; vol. ii, 1873. P- 
fie C. Chamberlin, on some evide ences 3 upon the ea of 
- Hoyt, of Madison, is pe eon of the Academy. 
cinnati Quarterly Journ oe nce. —The number for 
OBITUARY. 
. Eure DE Beaumont.—On the 24th of September died Elie 
de Beaumont, the eminent geologist, and long the “ Secrétaire 
Perpetuel” of "the Academy of Sciences of Paris, Born on a 25th 
of September, 1795, he entered the Polytechnic ee in 1819, and 
leaving it with the’ highest honors, entered the Ecole des Mines in in 
e became Professor inthe Ecole des Mines in 1829, 
fessor in the Collége de France in 1832, Engineer in Chief of Mines 
in 1833, Ins vector-General of Mines and Member of the Academy 
of Sciences in 1835 5, its Perpetual Secretary in 1853 in place of 
aby 3 Senator in 1854, and Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor 
in see 
cu Hxssensere died in his native city of Frank- 
fort, on ie sth of last July. A jeweler by trade, he yet fou 
my 
Notizen,” published in 11 numbers, contain some of the most im- 
portant contributions ever made to the science 
Half-hour Recreations in Popular Science, I Dana Estes, Editor, No. 12. The 
Circulation of the Waters on the Surface of the Earth, by H. "HL. W. Dove. Boston, 
