Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



^ (he sfreat hoiVlit of 

 nnltifidity of the f ' 



acquaintance with the works of foreign fellow-ltiboiers at great disadvan- 

 tage in the eyes of such foreigners as^'might be present* Prof. Kolleslon 



sary veherne*'nce,"ho°was so/ry for it; but that lie felt there were things 



truth were things higher and better than were the rnles of etiquette or 

 decorous reticence. Mr. W. 11. Flower, looking at the subject solely in 

 the anatomical view and as a question of fact, stated that the result of a 



posterior lobe or the hippocampus minor, which parts were proportion- 

 ately more largely developed in many monkeys than in man, and thai if 

 these parts were used in the classification of man and the monkeys the 



follow the baboons, the cercopitheci, macaque ; then man must be placed, 

 followed by the anthropoid apes, the orang-outang, chimpanzee and 

 gorilla; and last, the Anierican howling moHkov.--Prof. Owen replied, 

 that Prof, liolleston had led the meeting to conclude that he had not paid 



anatomists; whereas he might be permitted to state that almost at the 

 very time that Leuret wrote his memoir on this subject, he had delivered 

 a course of lectures on the convolutions of the brain, wliiih, he regretted, 

 had not been published, owing to tlie pressure of other labors; but the 



seum of the Royal College of Surgeons. 



2. Correspondence of Sir Wm Reid and W. C. Bed field.— io\\n H. 

 Redfield, of Philadelphia, son of the distinguished investigator of the 

 law of Storms, has presented to the Library of Yale College, the 

 original letters of Sir W. Reid to Mr. W. C. Redfield, and copies of the 

 letters of the latter, to Sir William. The correspondence is arranged 

 chronologically and is bound in three handsome folio volumes. In order 

 that gentlemen devoted to meteorologv may understand the character ot 

 this collection of letters, so importaiit in 'the History of the science of 

 Storms, we append a note of Mr. J. H. Redfield, introductory to the 

 volumes. 



«The correspondence contained in these vohm^cs consists for the most part 

 of the autograph letters of vSir VViliiam Reid to William C. Redfield of ISev 

 York, togrether with copies of those written by the latter in rcplv. ^ 



Sir William Reid (then a Lieutenant Colonel in the Engineer Service ot 

 Great Britain) was appointed Governor of the Bermuda Islands at the close ol 



