Miscellaneous Intelligence. 319 
5. Annual Report of the Argentine Meteorological Office, for 
the year 1874. 18 pp. 8vo. Buenos Aires, 1875.—This Report, by 
the Director of the office, Prof. B. A. Gould, gives details as to the 
complete saturation of the atmosphere, and its minimum, 
in Septe i 
cent in S 
ber 7th not 
less than 74:5° C., and it reached 77°8° on the following January 
8th. The minimum under a clear sky, 52°5° was observed on the 
19th of June. 
tributes the article Meteorology, which is illustrated by numerous 
diagrams many his own or from original American sources. It is 
or’s own views, in a clear and concise manner. ‘The arti- 
cles Metal and Meteorites, Ore dressin , and extraction of metals 
Tm: 
from their ores by chemical means, are furnishe Thos. M. 
Dro f Easton and D . W. Raymond; Mineral deposits, by 
Dr. J. 8 Newberry; Microscope, by Prof. A. M. Mayer; Mediter- 
Fanean Sea, by Count Pourtales; Meteor, Mars, Mercury, Moon, 
by Richard A, Proctor, London; and the metal Mercury, and 
Mine, by Dr, Raymond. : : 
In volume XII, some of the leading scientific articles 
Paleontology, y Prof. James Hall; Mountain, by Dr. T. 8. 
“unt; the ‘Theory of Music, by Prof. eae te Nebular hypothesis 
Nomenclature, by Prof. Frank H. Storer of Harvard College. 
The botanical articles are by Prof. Geo. Thurber; those on 
ogy by Dr. S. Kneeland of Boston; on Materia Medica by Dr. E. 
H. Clark of Harvard Universi ; the medical and physiological 
by Dr. John ©. Dalton; while Joy and Hogeboom furnish 
