84 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
1879. (D. Appleton & Co.)—The scope and ie object of this 
work are well stated in the above title. It occupies a decidedly 
new place among handbooks of travel and sobtsias a great amount 
of intormation in a very condensed form. 
7. Essentials of epraigaet Inorganic and Orgunie, for the use 
of Students in Medicine ; by R. A. Wirruaus. New York, 1879. 
18mo, pp. 257. (Wi illiam Wood & Co o.)—-The author has skillfully : 
condensed the “ Essentials of Chemistry,” for the Medical student, 
into a vest-pocket catechism, which fulfills well the object for 
which his little volume has been prepared. : 
8. Handbook of Alabama: - complete index to the State; 
with As ey map and an Appendix of useful tables, by — 
SarroLtp Berney.—This vaheine contains a valuable outline of | 
the aeclogy of Rehan, with a oo map of the State, by — 
Eugene A. Smith, Ph.D., State Geologist : 
The Amateur’s Handbook of practical posing we the before and the 4 
metal, ete 
: 
Laboratory: containing directions for bronzing, lacquering, polishi 
44 pp. 12mo. New York, 1878. (The Industrial fap ene Compa me 
wee ag core of the eee ride. A family of Hydroid Stony Co: Corals, b by H. 
N. Mca y; F.R.S., late Naturalist on board HL vf §. Challenger. (From the Phi : 
iiophicl “Transactions of the e Royal gene ant II, 1878. : 
Ann e Chief Signal Officer to the ntovies of hes for the year — 
1877. on. 8v 9, wits 34 maps and 18 Sane. Washington, 
Dasctption of eight new species of ares from the Ni vtagar Sco by 8 4 
A. er. The new species are: H. Brauni, etherbyt, 
i. globosus, H. pustulosus, H. plenus, H. elegans ; they are from Jebeceee and Ripley 
counties, Indiana. 
Remarks on some wilneater copgersn gt Shells of the Hudson River Pcie by R. P. 
Whitfield. The new Aa at at Cypricardites quadrangularis a curt, 
Orthodesma Mickleboroughi. ag teh ja, (?) ay locality, esti ae Ohio. 
A. Handbook a the Electric Teleareph, b A. E. Loring. 98 pp. 12mo. New 
York. 1878 (Van Nostrand’s Science Serie 
Statistical Srotch “of South — ey Josiah oe 86 pp. 8vo. London, 
1876. Published bbe = hority of the Government. (Sampson Low, Marstot, 
= & nobler cs don.) G 
e American Ante uarian: a Quarterly Journal devoted ue Early Americal 
History, Ethnology, ps Archeology. Edited by Rev. Stephen D. Peet, of Union 
ville, Ohio. Published by oo Sais Schinkel & Co. Cleveland, Ohio,—Vol. i, No. 
July, August and Septembe 
A Monograph of the Silurian Forest of the — oe it in Ayrshire, by dos: 
ps oon! ag Robert Etheridge, Jr Rhizo 
ilobita. oe ore, with ix plates.  aidinbursh and London, i818 
(Wiliam Hisekwood & Sons. 
on the Meteorological Service of the Dominion of Canada, by the Super 
ispepmnge: to which is appended the Report of the Directors of the Magnetic 
other r Observatories, for the year ending December 31st, 1877. Ottawa, 1879. 
