168 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
. Treatise os Fuel, ee and practical; “if Rosert Gat- 
nee, M.R.LA., E.CS. pp. 8vo. London, 1880. (Triibner 
& Co. )—This tittle book ene a compact pe , the more 
important facts in regard to the siemipeitien of the different kinds 
of fuels, their heating power and the calorimetric methods by 
eee to the silaceiond: sedate 
. Petroleum. Mr. Ox he hanes in a lecture in the 
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aggregate 133,262,63 9 barrels of crude oil, from the sale of which 
the State has ealteed $340,709,672. The t theory that the Penn- 
sylvania oils are derived entirely from the decomposition of the 
— and animal life of the Devonian age, and that the oil 
ands are but reservoirs holding the oil, Mr, Ashburner thinks 
etubliihed beyond a doubt by facts gathered from the oil miner. 
OBITUARY. 
ALEXANDER SADEBECK, Professor of Mineralogy at the Univer- 
sity of Kiel, and author of many papers upon mineralogical sub- 
jects, died on the 9th of December, 1879, at the = of thirty-six. 
Report of the Entomologist, Charles V. Riley, M.A., Ph.D. APP. ae with 7 
plates. Balmer, abe foes rt of Department of Rpridanies fe for 
Journ: ti Society of Natural History, vo ‘an ii, no. ‘, Jal 1879. 
Contents : Amul Address, by V. ‘e Chambers mee n some new or little 
known North American neei . G. Wetherby ; ehearvaiains He a ds, 
by Charles Dury ae L. R. Freeman ; pp boas ote oF saat new fossil species and 
remarks upon others, by 8. A. Miller. 
Unser Sonnenkérper nach seiner physikalischen, sprachlichen und mytholo- 
gischen Seite betrachtet von Dr. Schmidt, Rector in Gevelsberg. 60 pp. 4t0. 
ie agp ee 
orksh Companion: a collection of useful and reliable recipes, rules, 
ses =, naan Mf fasags ras practical hints for the household and the shop. 
164 pp. New Yor 
The Palenque Tablet in ‘aia United States — — Washington, D. C.; 
by Charles 81 pp. Ato. ~~ ew City, 
A Sesto of the Germ d in ‘Medix cine; By George R. Cutter, 
M.D. 304 pp. 8vo. r deel ‘York 79 (G "p. Putnam’s Son 
Report on the — logy. ot Tndis, for tei by Jota Elliott, Third year. 
Caleutta, 1879. Quarto, ans ; appendix pp. 1 
Report of the ‘yobs ee : the Meteorological Department of India. Thin 
Report on the Madras Cyclone of May, 1877, by J. Elliot, M.A. Meteorological 
Reporter to the Government of Bengal. Quarto, Calcutta, pb 
Zoo ni pag for ated and General ceva 3, by A , M.D., Ph.D. 
719 vis 8vo, with numerous illustrations. New York, “1886, f ae Holt & Com- 
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