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region, besides others of the Moquis adobe villages, and raany 

 landscapes ; and all are admirable specimens of the photographic 

 art. The country owes much to the Survey under Dr. Hay den 

 for the knowledge of the Rocky Mountain territories which has 

 been distributed through the country by means of its numerous 

 and excellent photographs, as well as through its Reports. 



(3.) Models. To the Survey, the science of the country is in- 

 debted also for a model in plaster of the Elk Mountains. It is 

 made on a scale of 1 inch to a mile, aud corresponds to an area of 

 200 square miles. One copy is to be colored to show the actual 

 features of the region, and thus to exhibit its geological structure. 

 The model has been prepared by the artist, W. H. Holmes. The 

 same artist has executed a model of one of the two-story cliff 

 houses of the San Juan Region, and another of a ruined village in 

 southwestern Colorado. The cliff in the former has a height above 

 the house of 200 feet vertically. (See Bulletin, 2nd Ser., No. 1, 

 p. 20.) A model of a cliff house in Arizona has been made by the 

 Photographer of the Expedition, Mr. W. H. Jackson, on a scale of 

 six feet to an inch. The model is colored so as to represent 

 exactly the appearance of the ruins. Still other models are in 

 course of preparation. We learn that copies of these models will 

 be furnished at cost to institutions desinng them. 



7. Specific gravity Balance of B. Parish.— A balance, con- 

 structed on the same principle with that brought out by Mr. 

 Parish, of Worcester, Mass., in the number of this Journal for last 



November, has been described and figured by President F. A. 



',' ' ' ' Johnson's " New Universal Cy- 



clopedia," published two or three months since in New York. It 



Barnard, in the second volume of Johnson's " New Universal Cy- 



appears also that its author presented a paper on the instrument 

 to the National Academy in November, 1874. 



A charge of plagiarism on the part of Mr. Parish has been 

 thrown out. The editors of this Journal deem it a duty to say 

 that they know the charge to be without foundation. The paper 

 presented to the National Academy has never been published, 

 __j .,_- _!.._, .,. (jfjj^ Mr. Parish communicated 



Industrial Science at Worcester has recently published 

 ment that Mr. Parish showed him a model of his balance in 

 October, 1874, or before the time of the meeting of the National 

 Academy above referred to. Moreover, Mr. Parish's paper in this 

 Journal was in our hands a month before the publication of the 

 2nd volume of Johnson's Cyclopedia. 



8. Bulletin of the Bussey Institution, Harvard University, 

 Jamaica Plain. Part iv, pp. 285-372. 1875.— This fourth part 

 of the Bussey Institution Bulletin contains the following papers : 

 Applied Zoology ; the importance of its study to the practical 

 agriculturist, by D. D. Slade, M.D. ; Report of the Director of 

 the Arnold Arboretum, presented to the President and Fellows of 

 Harvard University ; A record of trials of various fertilizers upon 



