496 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
83. Statistics on Earthquakes ; by Professor C, G. Rock woop, Jr. 
(Communicated. )—Professor Dr. C, W. Fuchs, formerly of Heidel- 
berg, but now in Meran, Tirol, Austria, has for the last fifteen. 
years published annual statistics of earthquakes and volcanic 
phenomena, and has noticed that in his lists America is remarka- 
ble for the paucity of shocks reported. This he attributes, and 
we think rightly, to the lack of information on the subject, rather 
than'to any real scarcity of such events. As he is now proposing 
to revise his lists, he has presented to the Smithsonian Institution 
a request for information in regard to American earthquakes, 
especially for the whole or any part of the period since 1865. H 
would be thankful for any information on the subject which may 
be in the possession of American observers, and which may be 
sent to his address as above. j 
The undersigned, who has for the past eight years been occupied 
in a similar work in America, would take this opportunity to say to 
the readers of the Journal, that he also would be very glad to come 
into communication with other workers in the field of Seismology, 
either American or foreign. He is especially desirous to obtain 
correspondents upon the Pacific Coast, who would aid in collect- 
ing information in regard to earthquake shocks in that region, 
where they are so much more frequent than on the Atlantic sea- 
board. 
Princeton, N. J., May 12, 1880. 
4. Tables of the Uommon Logarithms and Trigonometrical 
Funetions to Six Places of Decimals. With special regard to 
their Use in Schools, Edited by Dr. C. Bremiker. 517 pp. 8V0- 
New York, 1880, (B. Westermann & Co.).—This reprint of 
them were commonly foun e work, both on account of Its 
high reputation for accuracy and_ its ct convenience, 
eserves a wider use than it has yet obtained among the very CoD- 
OBITUARY. 
Professor Wrrt1am H. Miturr, the eminent Crystallographet 
and Mineralogist of Cambridge, England, has recently died, at 
the age of seventy-nine. 
