448 | Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
2. Report on the History and Progress of the American Coast Sur- 
vey up to the year 1858, by the Committee of twenty appointed by the 
American Association tor the Advancement of Science at the Montreal 
meeting, August, 1857. 88 pp. 8vo—The committee of twenty ap- 
’ Prof. F. 
Va., Prof. W. H. C. Bartlett, U. 8. Military Academy, N. Y., Prof. Wol- 
North Carolina, N. C., Prof. Wm. F errel, Nashville, Tenn., Prof. Edward 
Hitchcock, Amherst College, Mass., Prof, James D. Dana, Yale College, 
Conn. After the death of Judge Kane in February, 1858, Pres. F. A. P. 
entire unanimity. 
“1. The American Coast Survey, in its inception, was a work impera- 
tively demanded by a due regard to the industrial interests of the country, 
dependent, as they are, greatly upon the prosperity of commerce for their 
free development. . 
2. The indecision which marked the early policy of the government in 
regard to this Survey, and the consequent delay of its efficient operations, 
and postponement of its beneficial results, were of manifest disadvantage 
to the material welfare of our people, and cannot but be still subjects of 
Serious regret. . 
3. The economical value of such surveys is attested by the universal 
Voice of all commercial men, and by the concurrent practice of all com- 
ter annually occurring upon every unexplored coast. : 
4. Their scientific value is witnessed, in the instance of the American 
bodies of men, whose high position as scientific authorities ren- 
their opinions upon subjects of this nature entirely conclusive. 
