Miscellaneous Intelligence. 333 



tant Cutts and Prof. Young of Astronomical and Meteorological 

 observations made at Sherman, Wyoming Ter., pp. 75-172; and 

 a preliminary report on transatlantic longitude, by Prof. Hilgard, 

 pp. 227-234. 



Mineral Resources West of the Rocky Mountains. 7th Annual Report, by R. 

 '. Raymond. 540 pp. 8vo. Washington, 1875. 



Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania. Report of Progress in the Clear- 

 Id and Jefferson District of the Bituminous Coal-fields of Western Pennsylvania, 

 ' PrankUn Piatt. 296 pp. 8vo, with 139 wood-cuts and 10 maps and sections, 

 arrisburg, Pa., 1874. 



L Cope, and No. 2 by J. 



: Colorado, by John J. Stevenson. 372 pp. 



> pp. 8vo, with 



M, LL.D. : a Biographical Sketch, by S. S. Sherman. 



80 pp. 8vo, 1876.— This memoir is a very just tribute 



ory of Dr. Lapham, who died at Milwaukee, 



ber, as already stated in this Journal. Dr. Lapha 



very varied knowledge and scientific labors. Early in life, while 



stated in this Journal. Dr. Lapham was a man of 

 c labors. Early in life, while 

 began a collection of plants, 

 his death numbered 8,000 species, and he also published 

 . . the geology of portions of Ohio. Moving to Milwaukee in 



1836, he commenced observations on the topography, soil, mineral 

 and other industrial resources, of Wisconsin, and on the commerce 

 and navigation of the lakes, and kept tables of the daily tempera- 

 ture, rain-fall, and other meteorological phenomena; and in 1844 

 he published for Wisconsin a volume of 250 pages, on these topics. 

 He afterward contributed Agricultural, Botanical and Geological 

 papers to the Transactions of the Wisconsin State Agricultural 

 S^iety, among them a valuable treatise of nearly 100 pages on 

 The Grains of Wisconsin and adjacent States," a paper which 

 he afterward extended to a manuscript volume of 574 pages on the 

 Gramineae of the United States, but which remains unpublished. 

 The fluctuations in the level of Lake Michigan early engaged his 

 attention, and in 1849 he announced his discovery of "a blight 

 wiar tide in Lake Michigan." The study of Indian mounds of 

 Wisconsin occupied much of his time, and as early as 1836 he 

 called attention to a turtle-shaped mound at Waukesha. He was 

 the first to notice that many of these aboriginal earthworks are 

 gigantic basso-relievos of men, beasts, birds and reptiles." His 

 ^ell known and highh^ valued "Antiquities of Wisconsin," printed 



"^" suown and highh^ valued " Antiqi 

 py the Smithsonian Institution, is a h 



olume, contain- 



arge quarto v 

 55 plates and numerous wood-engravings, all from his i 



