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3, Ascent of Mount Whitney by Messrs. Rabe, Crapo, Hunter 
and others ; by W. A. GoopyEar.—After ith M. W. 
3 
EAR. my ascent wit J 
from 9,20 a. m. to 2p. M., of that day. 
The altitude of Mount Whitney above Lone Pine, as computed 
y me irom a comparison of these observations with the nearly 
simultaneous series taken on the same ay at Lone Pine itself, is 
10,981°5 feet. Add to this the altitude of Lone Pine above the 
sea, which, according to the best determinations yet made, is 3,917 
feet, and we have for the total height of Mount Whitney above 
the Sea, 14,898°5 feet, or say in round numbers 14,900 feet.—San 
Francisco Evening Bulletin, Sept. 27. 
4 Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smith- 
Sonuin Institution, for the year 1871. 474 pp. 8vo. Washing- 
ton, 1873.—After the Report on the operations, expenditures and 
Wi Appendix, whose contents are, Memoir of Sir John Frederick 
liam Herschel, by U. 8. Dodge ; Memoir of Joseph Fourier, by 
Arago; On Prof, Thomas Graham’s Scientific Work, by Wm. 
seutility, ete., by E. L. D 
ag Society of Physics and Natural History of Geneva, 187 ’ 
ei de Saussure ; Instructions to Captain Hall, with reference 
Ps ¢ Expedition to the North Pole; Ethnology ; Meteorology. 
hg Late Meetin of the American Association.—An excellent 
Port of the proceedings, with abstracts of the papers and a pub- 
ki i . . 
en, of some papers entire, including the Address of the Presi- 
