400 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
ages a ote Nord-OQuest de 0? Amérique exécuté du- 
rant les Années, 1870-72; par Apu. L. Pinart. Vol. I, Partie 
I, Histoire Naturelle. Paris, 1875. pp. 51, with plates A 
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observations on them; M. 
scopical and Chemical analyses of some of the rocks of Alaska ; 
and the Zoology is by Fischer, E. Perrier and P. Gervais. The 
author proposes to issue three volumes of this series, each to con- 
tain six parts similar to the one now issued. He has favored us 
with a sight of the plates illustrating the ethnology of his voyage, 
which he has enriched by researches during three winters 1n St. 
Petersburgh, where the extended collection made by the mission 
aries of the Greek Church, during a century or more, were liber- 
object the study of the ethnology and languages of the southern 
both North 
encouraged him by giving him a commission which requir ae 
to report specially upon certain points with reference to the we 
tral American States, with which his former voyages have already 
made him familiar. > 
3. General Index of Professional and Scientific paper erg 
tained in the United States Coast Survey Reports from 189 
1870. Constituting Appendix 17 in the Report for 1871.— 4. 
Coast Survey Reports issued under the late eminent Superinten™ 
‘a large number of original memoirs of high scientific character, 
