162 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
at different places where the parties were encamped, and gic iy 
ou sixteen plates giving the horary and diurnal barometric curv 
temperature, mean differences of wet and dry thermometers, diar 
ae force of vapor, and relative humidity. 
Di. legos 8 Staaten von Nord Amerika, von Dr. 
pr. Ratzer. Erster Band. Physikalische Geographie und 
Sener eon mit 12 farsa El u. 5 Kart. in Farbendruck. 
8 pp. large 8vo. Munich, 1878.—This very large and_beau- 
of the cou has been prepared by one who has 
well maste sat his subject, through the writings of the various 
American contributions it—those of the earlier and la 
exploring expeditions, the principal a a Reports, the 
works of Lyell, Fremont, J. D. Whitney, Guyot, Humphreys and 
Abbott, Walker’s Statistical Atom Scbatt’s table and results of 
Precipitation, and others; and he has presented = facts in a 
for example, forest regions, prairies, New England, the Atlantic 
coast, the Florida Keys, Cypress swamps, the Western plains, the 
Bad ‘Lands, “ California eta the Sierra Nevada, the Great 
Lakes, and other topics. The second volume will be occupied 
with aie ¢ culturgeographie” of Se United States; and will give 
the facts with fulness like the first, and with reference to the prac- 
tical rather than the theoretical. 
5. Report upon Forestry ; by Franxuws B. Hoven. 650 pp. 
8vo. Washington, 1 1878.—This report by Mr. Hough was pre- 
er the sravggety: of the Commissioner of Agriculture, in 
aber cts of trees; insect ravag and the consequences of polar 
sion of climate in this and other countries, in n its bearing on the 
subject, with the experiences and experiments of the nations = 
Europe and prompt afieene of Sean on climate; forest leg} 
