158 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
classes in _ United States 
7. Decease of Botanists.—The mortality among botanist pe 
ing the first half of ‘be: year 1879 is remarkable. Among the 
deceased are the venerable Reichenbach, Itzigsohn, ire 
Bueck a made the Calera index), Wes conten (ine : 
D * v= 1 st}. 
eeecy et =n pa siege saat of his life in Abysnia),  uetlell 
Karl pom Moore of Glasnevin, besides our own Bigelow ow and 
Robbin 4 
8. armen, es of Amblychila saphena Soy 
C. F. Gisster. This carefully prepared memoir is published in 
volume II of Psyche, the number for May-Jun 187 9. It is illus- 
trated by one plate, well executed on stone by ‘the author. 
IV. MIscELLANEOUS ScIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
1. Preliminary Note on the geese psd which produce the Chro- 
mospheric Lines; by J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S.—Hitherto, 
when observations have been ate of the lines visible in the sun’s 
chromosphere, by means of the method introduced by Janssen 
and myself in 1868, the idea has been that we witness in solar 
storms the ejection of vapors of metallic elements with which we 
are familiar from the photosphere 
A preliminary discussion of the vast store of observations 
recorded by the Italian astronomers (chief among them Professor 
Tacchini), Professor Young and myself, has shown me that this 
a 
almost all cases what I have elsewhere termed and ence as 
basic lines; of these I only need for the present refer t 
following :— 
2 ascribed by Angstrm and Kirchoff to iron and nickel 
to magnesium and iron. 
nae by Angstrim to gated and iron. 
5269 calcium and iron. 
5235 2S abla and iron, 
5017 “ ... *© nickel. 
4215.“ * calcium, but to strontium by — 
5416 an —— line. 
dissociation at the p sara thacoge level, and association at higher 
levels. In this way the vertical currents in the solar atmosphere, 
