82 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
co ne: ese for half fare on various railroads can be learned 
of by addressing Wm. Taussig, St. Lou 
3. Cakallogthe of Scientific Serial Puthcaltone —An extended 
catalogue ot Scientific Serials is soon to be issued under the auspi- 
Mr. Samuel H. Scudder, Librarian of the American Academy of 
Arts and Sciences. The work has double the extent of any exist- 
ing list of the kind, and aims to include all Society Transactions 
and independent journals in every branch of natural, mathemat- 
ical and pbysical science, are only » applied sciences, 
medicine, agriculture, technology, e The arrangement is base 
on the countries and places where pnblished. It will be a work of 
great ie hay all a and men of science. The volume will 
be in and extend to about 300 pa Those desiring the 
walk Should "adress 5 ustin Winsor, Libentian of Harvard College, 
ambri ‘te ass, 
les of Machine Construction: an application of geo- 
metrical tsa for the representation of Machinery ; by Epwarp 
OMKINS, edited by Henry Evers, LL.D. Vol. i, Text, 368 pp. 
8Vv0; vol. i ii, Plates, small quarto. New York, 1878. (G. P. Put- 
nam’s Sons—Putnam’s Advance Science Series.) — A clearly written 
and well arranged treatise, rendered the more useful by the numer- 
ous illustrations in the text, and still more by the forty-seven excel- 
a plates. 
Geological Survey of Victoria.—Decade 5 of the Paleon- 
tology of Victoria, by FrepERIcK McCoy, has appeared. Among 
ictorian species mentioned is the graptolite, Didymograptus 
ge, described by Hall from the Lower Silurian of Canada. 
On the Paleozoic JSossils of New South Wales; by L. 
DE ‘Koxtyen 374 pp. 8vo, with an Atlas of 24 quarto plates.— 
work is a complete review of the facts relating to the Paleo- 
ZOIC thoes of New South Wales, and contains descriptions of 176 
species. Besides this, it enumerates 76 species described by others, 
of which the writer had not yet seen specimens, Out of the 176, 
74 exist also in European rocks, 
7. Mineraloyische und petrographische Mittheilungen, heraus- 
gegeben von G. TscHERMAK; Neue Folge, Bd. I, Heft 1. Vienna, 
Lig peas nage ’ Mittheilungen of Vienna, begun by 
ear inner in feng numbers eac rear. e ne 
journal. e first number contains five oe articles upou 
various mineralogical and onpaencating subject 
8. Marine Zoological Laboratories for ins nee ae of Students. 
—A marine e ighavaiey for zoological instruction is to be opened 
at Fort Wool, on the Rip Raps, near Fortress Monroe, near the 
