72 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
8. Report on Barracks and Hospitals, with descriptions of Mili- — 
tary Posts. 4to, pp. 494.—Under the modest heading of “ Circular 
No. 4,” the Surgeon General’s office of the U. 8. War Department 
at Washington has issued a valuable document with the above 
title, containing a great amount of valuable information respecting 
distant outposts but little known, geographical, topographical, 
meteorological, sanitary, &c. 
an appendix are “ Reports on Examination of Air in Barrack 
rooms,” giving the results of chemical analysis of the air at night 
Tabular Statement of four Analyses of Air in Military Barracks, made by Capt. Lorenzo — 
Louvain, assisted by Lieut. John Pitman, and reported by Surgeon V. B. Hubbard. 
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=| Time of ob- | =| Apart- et Ae 
3 servation. | 3'| ‘ment. Cubic feet | Volume of recon eae on a000” bf op . 4 
# & Men.} ofair. | airexam-| foundin | amined | c.c. of the time — 
S ined in c.c.} 10,000 vols.| inc.c. | air. | infeet. 7 
1 ze rtillery a 
1) July 22, 70.|81°| barrack.| 19/13,016-25| 3700 9°58 34:091| 00440) 131°75 
3 ALM., Cavalry 
2) July 22, 70./78°| barrack.) 16/16,803°36| 4340 9:30 | 34°092| 00292) 111 
12 AS M., ngineer 
3 July 26,’70..85°) barrack. 9} 6,296 fee 9:37 ....| °00343| 63 
AM, ade 5°68 4 
4\ July 28,’70..77°| hospital.) 4! 4,480 es 552 _.-.|°00187| 73°35 © 
in barracks occupied by sleeping soldiers. Assistant Surgeon V. 
- Hussarp reports four analyses of air from the apartments of 
the U. 8. Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., made by the 
Captain and his assistant, which we have arranged in a tabular 
form for convenience of comparison. B. S. 
9. Captain Hall’s Arctic Expedition The Polaris, the vessel 
for the Arctie Expedition under Captain Hall, is now in New 
York (June 15), at the Navy Yard in Brooklyn, where she will 
results warrant, the voyage may be still farther prolonged. From 
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