166 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
over 1400 species. “The plan followed in o gf Bs so is, that of 
Mr. Watson in his excellent Catologue vol., 5, of Clarence King’s 
Report. Descriptions are given of “all the or ders, g genera and spe- 
cies not contained in Gray’s Manual, Chapman s Fi lora, and other 
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Botanies of the States east of the Mississippi river.” The mosses, 
lichens, and fungi are included. About fourteen new species are 
here described for the first time. The work will form a convenient 
hand-book for botanical tourists to the mountainous districts of 
Volume vii of the quarto series, on the Cretaceous Flora of the 
West, prepared by Leo Lesquereux, will be ready for the printer 
by he end of January. The plates, 28 in number, have been 
engraved on prone by Mr. Julius Bien, of New York, and an be 
printed in tin 
It is ed ‘to be the intention of the a eee that the quarto 
quality of paper, and character of illustratio 
4. First Book of Geology ; by. WittiaM s. Die LL.D., Head 
Master of the Derby Central School of Science. 160 pp: ’12mo, 
w 
es. 
New York (G. P. Putnam’s Sons). Reprinted from the English 
edition. A good little geological school book, based in its strati- 
LS gee eo yin part mainly on facts in British geology. 
Das thalgebirge in Sachsen von Dr. H. B. GutnitZ 
Cased af te (Theodore Fischer.)—The sixth number of Part I, 
and the third of Part Il, of Dr. Geinitz’s important work have 
ieee issued. e former contains a continuation on the Pelecy- 
poda of the Lower Quader (Middle Cretaceous) and is well illus- 
trated by seven quarto toy! i by Miss Elise Geinitz. The 
latter treats of species of th e tribe from the Middle and 
Upper Quader (Upper Cretanedanys wie a six plates. 
6. Academy of Sciences of France.—J. Norman Lockyer has 
been elected a correspondent, to fill the place rendered vacant in 
the Astronomical section by the death of Encke: and aig 
pkitase and Billet in place of Hansteen and Wheatsto 
uize Aquitanice, being contributions to a Fg eetiien and Palzontology 
of Parnord and the adjo oining provinces of Southern France; by Edouard Lartet 
; edite Thomas XII, 
Nov., 1873; pages 173-188 and 153-164. Plates A. xxxvii-xxxix, and B xxv- 
xxvii. This new number of the Reliquie Aquitanice has recently been received. 
ERRATA. 
Vol. v, p. 432, 22d line from foot, for synclinal, read anticlinal. 
p. 419, line 4 from foot, for 14°51 read 1416. 
p. 424, line 11 from foot, dele “ ans subtracti 
p. 425, in the note read—Q in this paper=3 nt Maxwell; Q’=Q of Maxwell; 
4xM= §) of Maxwell; 2 y= of Maxwell. 
