488 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
antiquities from Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, Lake Superior, Missis- 
sippi, Tennesse, New York, Indiana, Maryland, North Carolina, 
and Florida. 
3. Croli on Climate and Time. — Professor Croll’s work on 
Climate and Time, noticed on page 222 of this volume, has been 
se Gee a Messrs. Appleton & Co. of New Yor 
A Course in Descriptive Geometry for the use “of Colleges 
— Scientific dekoahe: 3 by Witt1am Watrer, Ph.D. (Boston, L. 
Prang & hits —In this work the treatment is concise without 
a table of contents of eleven pages, shows how little needless de- 
scription is given. Doubtless much of the saving of space is due 
the convenient and expressive notation — 
The introduction of a series of stereoscopic vi wsof many of the 
would have been pantie by the addition of one or two more 
a understoo 
an Naturalist. —The American cae ‘will ‘be 
published the the coming year by Messrs H. O. Houghton & Co., 
ambridge, Mass., and will appear in new typographical d dress. 
e Journ 
Gia. and while popular in its aim, never popular at the sok 
pense of its science. [t is announced that the Naturalist will be 
improved rela its new Ve aap by fuller notices of current sci- 
ence, and in other wa 
6. School o © Geolo n the University of Syracuse. —Under 
Professor Winchell a sei se of Geology has been organized in con- 
nection with th cuse University. It includes a course 0 
Elementary Study or Undergraduate C , and capers 
ourses, one Lithological and tne other Paleontological, isa de 
on together. There are also to be special studies in different de 
partments of Zoology, as in that of Corals, Brachiopods, 
bites, &c. The school is intended for special geological student 
and also for those who desire a general sep nang meee ae Bs 
= bject. The school will open on the 25th of next January. | he 
rospectus announces that Prof. Winchell will be are g in 1 
Eon by Prof. J. J. Brown in aeons f Prof. F, Smalley Ne : 
Rey. 8. R. Calthrop in Geology, Profs. B. G. Wilder and Smalley 
in Zoology, Profs. James Hall, R. P. tae field and E. D. wee 
in Paleontology. The pos ition of the school in central New 
York is ent epenlerty favorable for the geologien! and paleonto- 
