320 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
On the mythology of the North American Indians, J. W. Powstt. 
Brain-weight and size in relation to the relative capacity of races, D. Winson. 
some fragments of pottery from Vermont, G. H. PERKINS, 
On the ancient and modern Pueblo tribes of the Pacific slope of the U. §., E. A. 
BARBER. 
The mood of the verb in conditional clauses, Isaac B. CHOATE, 
The museums of industrial art in Austria, HEINRICH FRAUBERGER. 
The archeology of Europe and America compared, 8. D. Pret. On the state 
of society in the Primitive age, id. 
3. Geographical Distribution of Plants and Animals ; by C. 
Pickrrinc, Wilkes’ U. S. Exploring Expedition, author of the 
Races of Man. Part II, Plants in their wild state. 524 pp. 4to, 
with several colored maps. Salem, Mass. (Naturalist’s Agency.) 
It is a large storehouse of facts, on a subject of general interest, 
gathered with great labor and fidelity. It gives observations 
Scenery, etc., that came under the author’s observation. 
text is illustrated by maps of the world, presenting by colors the 
conclusions arrived at by the author. ‘i 
4. Proceedings of the Davenport Acadeny of Natural Sciences. 
Vol. 1, 1567-1876. 284 pp. 8vo, with 35 plates. Davenport, 
; re : 
Putnam; Botanical notes by Dr. C. C. Parry; and lists 0 or 
of plants, and of land and fresh-water shells, of Cl 3 a 
OBITUARY. P 
Esenezer §, SnE.L, of Amherst College, Massachusetts, oe 
fessor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, died, Sep 
18th, aged seventy-five years. rks, 
Prof. Cuar.es Davizs, author of various mathematica! W 1867 
a graduate of West Point of distinction, and from 185 pron 
Professor of Mathematics in Columbia College, died Se} 
eighteenth, in his seventy-ninth year. 
