238 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
cine season occupied the party from July 15th to Dec. 10th, and 
n area of 41,000 square miles in southwestern Utah and 
pajecent portions of Nevada and Arizona. Connection was made 
at the north with Clarence King’s survey of the fortieth parallel, 
at the east with the explorations of Prof. J. W. Powell, and at 
the south and west with Lieut. Wheeler’s work of previous years. 
The Sevier river was explored from its numerous heads to 
its mouth in ttre lake, and the identity of the latter with the 
Preuss lake of maps was raatabliehodl its salinity was found some- 
what less than that of Great Salt lake. The limits of the Sevier 
basin were traced, and especially the high divide that separates it 
from the Virgen, Kanab and Paria; ‘and those last mentioned 
streams—tributaries of the Colorado of the West—were surveyed 
to their mouths. Primary astronomical stations were made at 
Pioche in Nevada, at Gunnison and Beaver in Utah, and at Fort 
Steele, Laramie and Ch eyenne in Wyoming. Examin ations were 
made of the silver mining distriots so rapidly springing into exist- 
ence in western Utah, and of the coal field of southern Utah; and 
specimens and other since were accumulated in all depart- 
The scientific members of the arty were H. C. Yarrow, M.D., 
naturalist, assisted b HL. Ww. Henshaw; G. K. Gilbert, geologist, 
te C Hicireil M. 8. Severance, ethnologist ; an 
essrs. J. H. Clark, E. P. ‘Austin and W. W. Maryatt, astrono- 
mers, all of whom, excepting Mr. Austin, are now engaged at 
Washington i in the preparation of the results of — labors for 
publication. A preliminary report ti shortly appe 
a New 
Haven n two aedtace bis indicated a degree of cold so peda 
that it haa tel thought desirable to place the facts on record in 
a permanent form, and also to institute a comparison with other 
known cases of remarkable ¢ cold. The meteorological record at 
designed to include all the eases in age the casa co! at this 
place has been known to sink as low as ten de s below zero. 
So much depends upon the location of the eesinted that it is 
impossible to institute a very —_ comparison between the tem- 
peratures in these different case 
1. Jan. 5, 1835. ag ie ae Silliman observed 23 degrees below zero ; Dr. 
A . Monson 2 r. Rodney Burton 24°; and Prof. C. U. Shepard 26. 
2. Jan. 30, 1873. Prof We A. Norton observed 23 degrees below zero; Prof. ©. 
an 243°; Prof. A. C. Twining 26°; Prof. W. H. Brewer 26°; Mrs. 
inner 26°. 
S San. 2 ton? 185%. Dr. ore 8. M recta observed 12° below zero: Mr. Hawley 
ted 18° A. N. Ski 
4. eae 28, 1912, Prof ¢ C. $s Lyman obs observed 19}° below zero; Prof. B. Silliman 
be rs. A. N. Skinn 
an, 8, 25g Pr of. E. Loo sean beter 18° belo 
6. Jan, 25 18 1821. Prof. A. M. Fisher observed 12° peolg zero; and Dr. Alfred 
m 172°. 
