Miscellaneous Intelligence. 159 
The metal used they obtained by the dry mode from the crude plati- 
num and platinum-money which the Russian Government had placed at 
their disposal; the details of the process being reserved for a second com- 
munication to the Academy.— Comptes Rendus, June 14, |, 138. 
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Main among the mountains until his return, toward the close of summer. 
=. health is slowly but steadily improving 
mpaired. ‘ 
- J. P. Cooxr, of Cambridge, lately read before the Chemical oe 
London a paper on the compounds of antimony and zine (SbZn‘ 
“n"), designed to show that crystalline form is not a necessary indi- 
cation of definite chemical composition. A copy of this paper from the 
~ Author reached us at too late a date for publication in the present num- 
1 : 
€ gold 
awarded (May 28), at the suggestion of Sir R. I. Murchison, to Lapy 
RANKLIN eek a LEorotp MoCurwrock .—to the first in consideration 
Terror and the i iti i raphy. 
acco ditions to Arctic geography: : 
ADY FRANKLIN ng onl dey M: expected soon to arrive In the United 
States as the guest of Henry Grinnell, Esq., Vice-President of the Amer- 
‘ean Geographical Society. 
* Vol, xxvi, No. 78, 305, Nov. 1858. 
