164 Miscellaneous Jntelligence. 
Gaumer, on the habits of some larves; W. Osburn, on the Cotton- 
wood leaf-bee tle; F. H. Snow, on the Rocky Mountain Locust, 
the larve and chrysalis of the Sage Sphinx, Catalogue of the 
Lepidoptera of E. Kansas (503 species), and Meteorological Sum- 
mary for 1875. The meteorological summary states that the 
amount of rain (including snow) at Lawrence ce, Kansas (38° 58’ N., 
° 16’ W., at an elevation above the sea- level of 884 feet) was 
28°87 inches, the same as for ep cee 4:11 inches below the 
so rainfall . ae a eight 
—A nD ralogical acclety has been bay in Eng- 
feat ee the hil, (=e Prof. Miller as its Presider 
Medical eb of a Provost Marshal General’s Bureau. ie under 
the direction of the Secretary of War, by J. H. Baxter, A.M.,M.D. Vols. I and 
I. Thi a ai Se 
Principia or Basis of Socia 1 Science; by R. J. Wright. Second Edition. 
542 pp. 8vo. Philadelphia, 1876. (J. B. ‘Lippincott & Co.) 
OBITUARY. 
Porter Pornter, only son of Elisha B. and Frances A. Poinier, 
of Newark, died in New York city on Sunday afternoon, une 
lith, aged 23 years. He had given himself to the study of 
Physics, and in the Polytechnic Institutes of Troy and Hoboken, — 
e had thus early developed a very remarkable genius in the 
depititent of applied science. His studies had led him, with . 
great success, into original investigations of heat as 4 force m 
under whom he studied. He attained to such hea = vals 
were found worthy of public notice, and he was engngee ™ bs 
4 ge and ng ae of an original work on the pute 
eat, with t roval of his professors. His eothaane 
é a 
able disease, and, while orga to = his bok es the press 
at Cambridge, he was pronounced b eyond 1 . be 
ardor in study was suddenly quenched by dia “and sadly 
fell in eres midst of his successes. 
mise in the 
field of research had been eh: o the notice of the Johns 
