336 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
(104 pages). This last section covers only the Mexican or sie" 
process as — in Mexico and South America. The second 
re ta of silver and ie. will be remembered that Dr. 
Pe s volume on Lead contained much relating to the metallurgy 
of silver. 
h; with an 
Haye Professor Morse’s invention, by Wiii1am B, Tayuor. 
1 03 pp. 8vo. Washington, 1879.—This pamphlet is reprinted 
from the Smithsonian Report for 1878. It contains a well-digest sted 
account of the successive steps in the development of the alectrio 
telegraph, from the middle of the eighteenth century, down 
has special reference, however, to the very important contributions 
of Professor Henry ‘toward its practical sateblichiasit and fina 
success. 
6. Bulletins of the United States National Museum. The fol 
lowing are the contents of numbers recently issued : 
Contributions to North American Ichthyology, No. 3 
is 
, with description of new or little wn specie rdan 
on; B synopsis of the ‘ta mily Catostomide, by D 
Jordan. 237 pp. Washington, 1878 e Flora of St. Croix and 
the Virgin Islands, by F. A. Eggers. 133 pp., 1879 14: Cale: 
logue Collection illustrating the animal ween and the fisheries 
f th tes, prepared under the pote ti ° Co ee 
pp. ee BA 15. Contributions to the Natural History of Arctic 
made in connection with the Howgate Polar Ppeition, 187 oa, by ‘Latiwig 
Kumlion, ‘Natatalint of the Expedition, 179 pp., 
7. Transactions of the Connertiot ae of Arts and 
ee Bd so V, Patt "1367 8vo, with 24 plates. New 
The contents of the ‘volume are as follows :— ce 
Ratios e the Pycnogonida of New Efigland, by Edmund B. Wilson, W! 
plates 1 to 7; The Stalk-eyed Crustaceans of the Atlantic Coast of North America 
i : A lis 
:} 
: t. Smi i 
inoderms, with notes on their distribution, etc., by Richard Rathbun; ge 
Comet of 117 1: investigation of its orbit, by William Beebe; The Cepha alopods 
e Northeastern coast of America, by A. E. Verrill, with plates 1 13 to 25. 
Reports on the Results of ee under the supervision of pore pt ake,” 
in the Gulf of México, 1877-78, by the U. 8. Coast Survey Ste 
Lieut.-Commander C. D. Si gsbee, v. *s. N. comman hom V.— Gene 7a “Son th 
from a preliminary examin: i ‘of the mollusea, by W. H. Dall. (Bulletin ol. vi, 
aa of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Cambridge. Mass., V° 
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