240 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
ment of the Army under Surgeon-General Barnes, who has given 
us free access to all the unpublished records, and also for that of 
the oa pies, of Agriculture under the Commissioner, General 
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fall. The work is illustrated by a large number of einai in 
the text, and in plates 1 to v; and also by three charts, showing 
with much detail the geographical distribution, over the United 
States, of rain (and melt ed _— severally for the whole year, the 
summer sone and the 
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under ncns oo the Regents of the University at sundry 
stations, in the State of New York. Second Series, from 1850 to 
1863, inclusive; with records of rainfalls ne other phenomena, to 
1871, inclusive. Pre repared from the original returns by Frank 
. Hoven. 406 pp., 4to. Albany: Published by Legislative 
Authority.—For this extensive and valuable contribution to 
American Meteorology, science is indebted to the liberality of the 
pace of srs York, and the judgment and care we Mr. 
het 
5. On the Dardanelles and Bosphorus Under-current ; by Wx. 
B. Carpenrer.—It will be in the recollection of such of your 
readers as have followed the asian on Ocean Currents, that I 
ventured nearly two years ago* to predict the existence of an 
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hee if the salt continually passing out of the Black Sea by t the . 
surface-current were not thus replaced, the continual excessive 
i of river water would, in time, wash the whole of the 
out “of i its basin 
aving ce note ac the Pct on the completion of 
the survey of the Gulf of Suez, would proceed to the Dardanelles, 
I requested the Hydrogra pher to direct that the SS of the 
under-current should be thoroughly examined ; and he issued 
I yesterday as. through the Levant Herald :—(1) that ‘all 
aueston. of a ete under-eurrent has been placed. beyond 4 .” 
_ that 
- of Royal Society, Dec. 8, 1870. 
