24-t Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



V. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. Topographical Survey of the State of New York.— As 

 announced in a former volume of this Journal, this survey was 

 I'!' 1 ! 1 " 1 "'" ! 1:iS | year, under Mr. .James T. Gardner as Director. 

 This event, which had been recommended by the Geographical 

 Society of New York, appeared to be a promise thai topogra] li 

 cal surveys were now to be carried 

 would soon put the nation on a level < 

 maps, and in it. knowledge of its own industrial :.. 

 the recent recommendation of the Governor of New York threatens 

 a stop to the work, and a still longer continuance of faulty maps, 

 uncertain lines of roads and boundaries, unknown water-privileges 

 ii'id drainage areas and trener iorance. A 



n favor of the survey has lieen addressed to the leo-isla- 

 ,,ln ' '»>' "" NVu "> , and the Faculties of 



Columbia Colle-e. tlie iVIv technic Institute of Troy, and other 

 mammons, and the editors of this Journal hereby send their 

 petition to the same effect. 



2. Tour of the Great Lakes: Summer School of Natural His- 



-sor 1. I). Coinstoek .,f Cornell l/nnersity, proposes 



it sufficient encouragement be given prior to Mav 1," to charter 



for a period of four to six weeks, and start, from Buffalo 



rad, about July 5th, on a tour along the shores of Lakes 



£ne, Huron and Superior, and possibly also Lake Michigan. 



Competent instructors in geology and botany are to be engaged, 



and lectures from specialists are promised, the prospect is states 



1 not exceed $125 for thirty days and $3.50 



l"r <mHi a hhtional day. The trip will be limit- 1 u, thirtv davs 



unless a majority vote of the pupils decides otherwise. 



3. Element* of Phys, s\ \ ■• ,' J-,, , ; by Neil 

 Ai ^"7;- M ';.. kl-.l)., F.R.S. Seventh edition. Edited by Alex- 

 ander Bain, LL.D., and Alfred Swaine Tavlor M.I).. F.R.S. 873 

 P J.\. 8vo - ^ew York, 1877. (D. Appleton & Co.)— The first 

 itol 0n °/ the " Elements of P^yffl appeared in 



fi V? W1 m m f ° Ur y ears from * ri iitions were 



fir • e author himself di ed in March, 1874, but his work 



still lives, with the same popularity which it had on its first appear- 

 r^' lt8 ,.^ i in its clearness of style and 



munessofdlustration^ Each new principle is enforced bV many 

 wSlTP ^ hlch reraove ^e difficulties that the student 

 lUtedinadryfoi^ 

 -ntlyinter- 



TavwT^ Un J de - r the edit0r8hi P ° f ^-r l-in and IT. 

 new edition of the work is made to include the 

 «■ hi the science. 



J • "■ Mi i ■: Bulletin.— This bulletin, the official 

 ^ American Metric Bureau," is issued in Boston, 



