Vili CONTENTS. 
SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
Chemistry and Physics.—Determination of Carbonic Acid in ne — — 
CHERS, 477.—Ultramarines of various metals, DEFORCRAND and B Bean 
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in the Animal Organism, SCHREINER: Persulphuric Oxide S.0;, BERTHELOT, 
eaten: <a. 481.—Sa nd Filter, W. G. Lev VISON, sie 
Mineralogy.—History and value of the nae = Riyer Group,” 
in Am rita Geolog! cal Nomenclature, J. HALL: Paleo togiival Report of the 
Princeton Scientific Rapotities m, 482. nom Ancient Life-history of the Earth: 
Manual of Mineralogy and Lithol ology, 4 
Botany and Zoology.—Shortia glacifolia re- »-discovered, 483.—Amount of Sugar 
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New york & Sito Museum ig N siete History, Report of the Botanist: Ferns of 
North America, 487.—Sarracen Fe rpurea: Professor Alexander Agassiz’s 
i aro Laboratory at Newport: it . 1. 488 
Mise dents — Intelligence. —Report m the d Region of the United 
rate mater re d atid account of the AKiite a Utah, 489. “United pinion 
Geologie Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel, CLARENCE Kine: Annual Repo 
of the Board of Regents of the Sm ithsonian Institution for the year 1877: 
The ved Professor Hoar, 490. 
Obituary.—M. Delafosse 
