80 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
have always been unequal, with all the persons yet experimented 
upon. The probability of error is greatest just after the middle 
of the number. aes f 
This has led to an interesting investigation on the power ke | 
memory. Allowing definite intervals (t) of time to cone ; 
tween the giving and the writing of the number, and it is eviden 
the amplitude of the beats of a pendulum, in time, as due to a 
resisting medium. F. E. ie 
2. Record of Science and Industry for 1875; edited by Sr ‘ 
cER F. Barrp. 4 pp. 8vo, ork, 1876. (Harper 
Brothers.)—Professor Baird’s scientific annual for 187 5 has recently 
: : 1 
coveries in science and the practical arts, and learn something of 
the world’s progress in knowledge. L 
3. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy, vol. Ii, pee 
—This volume contains: I A report on the dredging in the ie h 
of St. George’s Banks in 1872, by S. L. Smith and O. Harger, cha 
8 plates; Lt. Descriptions of new Hydroids by 8. F. Clark, ve g 
plates; {11 On the Chondrodite of Brewster, N. Y., aie 
Dana, with 3 plates—the paper which was condensed for vo er 
ix of thi al; IV. On the Transcendental Curves ee 
my = a sine sin ne + 6, by H. A. Newton and A. W. Phil i: 
with 44 plates, containing photo-lithographic transfers of . 
different examples of the curves; V. On the equilibrium of Hete' 
geneous 
paper, occupying 150 pages, putting new methods of analysis a 
the hands ot mathematicians and physicists. 
Notes of the following works are unavoidably defe 
ur 
Repo: I 
region of Country adjacent thereto; by J. W. Powell. 218 pp. 4to, with an 
Washington. Department of the Interior. 1876. 
atural Hi Su 
ul, ; 
ertebrate Cretaceous and Tertiary Fossils of the Upper Mis: 
souri Region. 630 pp. 4to, with 45 plates. 1876. Vol. ix ef the Benes 
the U. 8. Geol. Survey of the Territories in charge 
ment of the Interior, 
OBITUARY, a 
ANGELIN, the eminent Swedish Paleontologist, died at Stock a 
holm on the 13th of February, aged seventy years ge 
d, ILLINGS, the abl Paleontologist of the Canadian Geological a 
Survey, has recently died, ae 
