342 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
A Reai Telegraph. —A new invention of a really practical 
oe not a mere “paulo post futurum” invention like many 
we have heard of lately, has just been made by Mr. E. A. Cewnat 
writer writes in London, the ink marks in Brighton. We have 
seen this instrument at work, and its marvels are quite as startling 
as those of the telephone. "The pen at the receiving end has all 
the — of being guided by a spirit hand. The apparatus 
is shortly to ae — ea before the Society of Telegraph 
ean tae 
d wear, a vi 
of the nae his results cannot fail to have a nie value. Some 
Inst. Min. Engineer. 
‘6. The Si acealener, published monthly in the a of the 
Science of Meteorology. Vol. i, No. 1, March, 1 
Stump, editor, Greensburg, Pa. An eight-page prone devoted 
to meteoro ogy. 
. The Paleontologiat No. 3, Jan, 15, 1879, Cincinnati. Con- 
tains description of new species of fossils from the Lower and 
Upper Silurian oe of Ohio, by U. P. Jam 
OBITU 
Professor Gustav Lxonnarp, of ‘Heidelberg, died December 27, 
1878. He was well known as the a a of works on Mineralogy 
and Geognosy, he as editor with Professer H. B. Geinitz, of the 
Neues Jahrbuch fiir Mineralogie, acre und Paleontologie. 
extent significance of the Wisconsin Kettle Moraine, by T. C. Cham- 
hoewg A.M., a Geologist and Professor of Geology in Beloit wees (Trans. 
Wise. Sar wy of Sciences.) weaaeue 
e Annelida Chzetopoda of the Virginian ang: by H. E. Webster ( 
tions of the Albany Institute, vol. ix, rementlee 
puntes relativos alos Huracanes de las [Roti en ves omen ee y Octubre de 
a y a Se leido en rea Academia de Ciencias y 
Naturales de la Habana en Reaion Se del 9 de Septiembre de 1877 y ssiguents par 
el socio de morte, P to Vifies, S. J., Director del Observatorio. 253 
pp. 8vo. unas ca 187 
The Local Geology oo Davenport, Iowa; by Rev. W. H. Barris ran, 08 
Academy Natural Sciences, Sept., 1876). New Fossils from the Corniferous For- 
mation at Davenport (ibid., Oct., 1878). 
