164 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
one miles in length, and from one to two miles in width. Its 
upper portion is at a height of 24 pee feet above the level of the. 
sea, and its lower portion terminating n masses of ice 250 feet in 
height, and be ee miles in breadth, is 16 ,000 feet above the sea.— 
Ne ature, Jul 
12. Instr re for observing the Total Solar Eclipse of July 
29, 1878. Prepared by Professor Wm. Harkness and issued by 
the United States Naval Obsery atory. 30 pp. 4to. Washing- 
ton, i878. 
lament of nip an Introduction to the study of motion and rest = _ 
and fluid Bodies; by W. K. Ciirrorp, F.R.S.—Part I, Kinematic. 222 pp. 1 
Lesion. 1878. onion & Co.). 
OBITUARY. 
sophical Society (vol. xv). In 1873 Mr. Gabb went to Costa 
ica, under an appointment from the government of the State, and 
engaged i in a topographical and geological survey of the territory, 
n which he made also extensive ethn be cal and natural history 
edltentions for the Smithsonian Institution. memoir 
several in this Journal, mb last in the number for March of the 
current year. Mr. Ga as a man of vast energy, and an earnest 
and careful investigator. "His various contributions to science are 
a great honor to the country—and eminently so to the State of 
South America, an 
his discoveries in natural history. He is the author also of many. 
— orion of rileras, the scenes of several of which were laid 
n South 
Avon sie Tibet NGSHAUSEN, Professor of Physics at Vienna, 
died on the 25th of May, having’ been born in Heidelberg, Nov. 
25, 1796. 
