438 . Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
2. Stevens’s Historical and Geographical Notes on the earliest 
Discoveries in America, Art. XTX, p. 297.—The following are the 
contents of the maps illustrating this article :— 
Puate 1. 
CHART OF ve Wornp by Juan A Cosa, dated 1500, the western pack Aes 
duced from M. Jormard’s waceloved: ds simile. The original is in the Roy 
brary, Madrid on leather, colored, size 5 feet 10, by 3 feet 2 inches 
Puate ITI. 
No. 1. OCEANUS OCCIDENTALES SEU er Nova, reduced from the Ptolemy 
No. 2. LA CARTA UNIVERSALE DELLA TERRA FERMA aad Isole delle Indie occi- 
dentali, canata da due carte da nouicare fatte in Sibilia da li piloti della Maiesta 
esarea. Venetia, 153: . Reduced to one de the size of the unique origi- 
nal in the possession of Mr. James Lenox of New York. The two pilots are no 
doubt Diego Columbus and Ribero whose calatens saan of 1527 and ep jer 
contemporary copies, er pag ved in the ripamees library at he sae 3 the ri- 
sage gang of which have been extra aig d published by Dr. 
the Uxivansation OGNIT Canis TABULA by Sits "Ruysch. 
‘Published i in the Ptolemy of 1 
Puate Il. 
, Map Or THE New HEMISPHERE b a oe of the orn aoe ae 
St. Lawrence and dated 1496, Virginia is here laid down for the first time, and 
sate 1584. Drake's landing in California is recorded under the date of 1580. 
2. HUNTER’s oe dated 1542, at continents terminating alike in the 
‘Southern Oce Ocean. Paria takes the place of Terra de Cuba and is separated from 
ngu 
a. 
ts) FINE’s DOUB RTED GLOBE aoe? July, main args Te@- 
duced from the pact in the Pes edition of the Novus Or 
No. 4. of the above mentioned Guose of mugs: ia FINE of Tuly, 1531, 
ce aoe to Mercator’s Projection. The best authorities seem to have been used 
by cheek in compiling map, but he has so misread them that his production 
surditi e 
i O, ar 
and all laid down in one country. For this sdialzavié reduction to Mereator’s 
ojection the writer is indebted to his friend Mr. J. ©. Brevoort, of vr 
who on all occasions has pe agi si ni the writer his geographical t 
ures to use as freely as if they e his o 
rele a A 
TenvanTerec Ravway Company's Chart of the World on Mercator’s sic apes 
showing the lines es aey sic its connections of steamships and sailing Vv 
sels, with the prom 
3. British occas <te meeting “of the British Associa- 
tion was held at Exeter, commencing Aug. 1st; on the evening of 
same day pe Stokes, oe President of the meeting, delivered 
next meeting will be held at Liver — 
Stokes closes — 
c | under the S Praine ey or Prof. Huxley. 
excellent address with the following paragra) 
5 
“But do the laws of chemical affinity, to vi Se asiaak ot | 
deavored to infer, living beings, whether vege 
in absolute subjection, together with those oP 
