228 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
IV. MisceLLANreous Screntiric INTELLIGENCE. 
1. Deep Sea Dredging, under the direction of the Coast Sur- 
vey.—The U. 8. Coast Survey Steamer F. R. Hassler, commander 
. C. Johnson, U.S. N., now approaching completion at Wilming- 
ton, Del., will be dispatched as soon as ready to the coast of Calt- 
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Harvard College as physicist, Assist. L. F, Pourtales of the Coast 
Survey in charge of deep sea dredgings, Dr. Steindachner as icthy- 
ologist, Mr. Blake as draughtsman. Some of the officers of the 
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muda, Trinidad, Rio Janeiro, Montevideo, the Falkland Islands, 
the Straits of Magellan, Juan Fernandez, the Gallapagos. : 
he ship is fitted out with a special view to deep sea soundings 
and dredgings, and will probably be ready for sea in the latter 
part of September. 
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(4.) Analogies between the “Terramarres” and the Kjek 
_kenmeedding. 
( Chronology of the first substitution of bronze for iron. 
ing things, including various portions of the hind limbs of the Mos* 
saurs, and some more remains of the Pterodactyl found last seaso 
