56 Scientific Intelligence. 
the whole and arrive at the parts by analysis, while the ordinary 
mathematical methods were = on the principle of ome 
with the parts and ending up the whole by synthesis. I also 
found that several of the most fertile methods of cecal dis- 
now arried its aronciaete beyond the range of 
ovdinary scientific ainante nly those well up in mathematical 
knowle and the use of the processes of analysis can pant pee 
Maxwell's treatise 
9. Wohlers Outlines of Organie Chemistry ; by Dr. R. eee 
Translated, with additions, by Dr. Ira Houen; “Professor c 
Chemistry ‘and Physics in Williams pea Mass. 530 pp. 
Philadelphia, 1873. (Henry C. Lea.)—This compact treatise is i 
eens hand-book of Organio Chemistry for the Spree attend- 
ing lectures or engaged in laboratory work. 40 pages are 
occupied in introductory and general matters; oo beginning 
with marsh gas, the remainder of th lume contains brief de- 
Poqgoo . ee ee alcohols, acids, aldehydes, ketones, 
&c., whose chemical structure has been <9 together with 
the numerous isom whose recent disc very is one of the most 
striking —— of the fruitfulness of oe ideas which andere the 
“ Modern ist 
The notation is giv n in the simplest _— form, and the re- 
lations of ete rious i euaaes of bodie “ of individual sub- 
stances to each idee are easily trace Dr. msen ms dickens 
his duty as translator in a thoroughly eaaiterys re man 
pi Ww. J. 
s 
II. GreoLtoay AND MINERALOGY. 
On the Klamath River Mines ; remarkable nibh! deposits 
"a Lower Klamath—a sketch of their Geology ; 
Cus —The upper portions of the Klamath river and its tributa- 
. t is p 
to the fact that about the time prospecting had Sochieibels in the 
section, the silver excitement drew off the restless Sees who per- 
one 
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