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114 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
VI. MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE AND BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
1, National Academy of Sctences—The Report of the National Acai- 
emy of Sciences, made by the Academy to the General Government, for 
the year 1863, has been published. It forms an octavo volume of 18 
—Report of the committee appointed to examine the * Wind and Our 
rent Charts” and “ Sailing Directions” issued from the Naval Observatory. 
At the last meeting of the National Academy, held in August at New 
Haven, Ct., three vacancies in its list of members were filled by the elec- 
tion of Dr. J. C. Dalton, of New York, Leo Lesquereux, of Colum 
Ohio, and S. F. Baird, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institutiom 
2. American Philosophical Society—The Magellanic premium ol & 
gold medal has been awarded by the Philosophical Society to Mr. = 
Earle Chase, for the discovery of numerical relations between gravity au¢ 
magnetism, HF 
8. Medals of the Royal Society—At the Anniversary meeting of the 
Royal Society, on Wednesday, the last day of November, the Copley 
medal was awarded to Charles Darwin, Esq,, F.R.S., “for his importath 
researches in Geology, Zoology, and Botanical Physiology ;” and bud 
Rumford medal to J. Tyndall, F.R.S., for his researches on the Absorptio? 
and Radiation of Heat by Gases and Vapors. ; 
t. H. R. Scuootcrarr.—This distinguished traveller, and investigator 
of the manners, history, and language of the American Indian tribes 
a at Washington on the 19th of December, in the seventy-second yew 
is age, ne 
5. F. W. Srrove, the celebrated astronomer of Pulkowa, Russia, died 
on the 23d of November last. His son, Otto Struve, was appointed his 
successor last year. jute 
6. Thoughts on the Influence of Ether in the Solar System, its relation 
to the Zodzacal Light, bose ee Seas and artidiont Shooting sia" 
By Avexanper Witcocks, M.D. Extracted from the Transactions of ti 
eghare Philosophical Society.—Dr. Wilcocks advances the hype 
and thi 
m ar ae 
of solar latitude just north of the equator; that this heated current a8 3 : 
rises is com ( that the 
ether bears with it matter capable of reflecting light, and thus causes bed 
than the ethet 
arise Tor that reason from the sun, except when near the poles of : 
sun, when they are made to descend in the vortices of descending § 
yams present double and multiple tails; that twice in the Ri 
ugust and November, the earth plunges through the sheet of ! 
