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4, British Association.—The next meeting of the British Asso- 
ciation will be held at Bradford, England, commencing on the 
17th of September, and be under the Presidency of the distin- 
guished physicist, James P. Joule. 
5. Report of the Superintendent (Prof. Bensamin Peirce) of 
the U. S. Coast Survey, showing the progress of the Survey 
during the year 1869. 260 pp. 4to, with 28 maps. Washing- 
ton, 1872.—Besides the Report of the Superintendent on the 
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toms of Florida and the adjoining region; on observations by 
Coast Survey officers, on the eclipse of the sun of Aug. 7th, 1869; 
on the reclamation of tide lands, and its relation to navigation, 
by Assist. Henry Mitchell; on the earthquake wave of Aug. 14, 
1868, by J. E. Hilgard. 
6. Year-book of Nature and Popular Science for 1872; edited 
by Joun C. Draper, Prof. Nat. Hist. and Physiology in the Col- 
lege of the City of New York, and of Chem. in the Univ. 
College. 334 pp. 12mo. New York, 1873. (Scribner, Armstrong 
& Co.)—So small a work can of course contain only brief excerpts 
from some of the scientific articles of the year. This volume, 
besides its many short paragraphs of this kind, has scraps of in- 
formation and opinions on a large variety of subjects, many of 
them not 1872 in origin, or of any particular year. 
7. Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1872, by SPEN- 
cer F, Barrp. 652 pp. 12mo. New York, 1873. (Harper & 
movements and explorations of expeditions ; and the developments 
in many branches of industrial science. Besides the names of the 
several physical and natural sciences, it has the heads of Agricul- 
ture, Pisciculture and the Fisheries, Domestic and Household Econ- 
omy, Mechanics and Engineering, Hygiene and Sanitary Science. 
_The book opens with an introductory chapter haying the 
title “General Summary of Scientific and Industrial Progress 
during ns year 1872,” the most of which was evidently prepared 
that the formations to which the great limestones (marbles) of the 
en Mountains belong, and which all Canadian geologists have 
Pronounced Paleozoic, include gneisses, mica-shists, chloritie mica 
