Miscellaneous Intelligence. 399 
to decide upon the place of study for the candidate whether in 
America or Europe. 
Prof. Tyndall also gave $250 to the Yale Scientific Club in aid 
of original research. 
2. The Depths of the Sea, An account of the General Results of 
the Dredging Cruises of H. M. SS. “Porcupine” and “ Lightning” 
during the summers of 1868, 1869, and 1870; by C. WyvuLE 
Tuomson. 8vo, 527 pages, with 84 cuts and 8 maps and dia- 
grams. New York and London: Macmillan & Co., 1873.—In 
this work the author has given in popular form a very interesting 
g 
Oversight, failed to do justice to the U.S. Coast Survey and to Mr. 
Pourtalés, by whom the first dredgings beneath the waters of the 
ulf Stream were undertaken in 1867 and carried on with great 
Success during three seasons. The author says (p. 277), “In the 
year 1868 Count L. F. de Pourtalés, one of the officers employed 
m the United States Coast Survey under Professor Peirce, com- 
menced a series of deep dredgings across the Gulf Stream off 
the coast of Florida; which were continued in the following year, 
and were productive of most valuable results.” He also quo 
editors and published in this Journal, giving a very brief account 
of the results of the second expedition (1868). But he nowhere 
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noticed and discussed at that time by the scientific periodi 
z : 
These discoveries and the aper referred to were eo 
8, 
* The writer has already given in this Journal (II, xlix, p. 129, 1870) a sketch 
_ Of the deep-sea explorations up to that date. 
