478 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
6. Bulletin of the Minnesota Academy of Natural leeiiey Sor 
the year 1875. 44 pp. en —This Bulletin contains a 
Prof. N. H. WincuHE tz on early ees of the Minnesota ae 
(continued); a report on Ornithol ogy by Dr. F. L. Haren; notes 
on Entomo O87) by R. ENDENHALL, treating of some noxious 
insects; notes on a storm on the 18th of J uly, i over Pope a 
Douglass octet Minnesota, by G. B. Wric ae rain nfall ‘of 
which, in Sau entre, amounted to at least “ 30 inches and pro 
bably reached 36 inches ; ;’ meteorological statistics, abe WIiLiiam 
CHENEY; and notes on a deep well drilled at vat pea eS 
y N. H. Wincuett. The depth of this well was 1421 feet, and 
it descended, after passing the surface soil, throug h te Trenton 
limestone and subjacent strata, to a clayey sandstone of the Pri- 
mordial—the formation that affords the well known “ pipestone” 
or sprees of Minnesota. 
. Arrangements for a Meeting of the British Association— 
an ete worth following.—When the British Association met 
at Belfast (we cite from the Athenzum for Sept. 9), an excellent 
guide-book was prepared for the occasion and presented to mem- 
bers of Committees. In 1875, the promoters of the Bristol 
were surprised the issue of a work in three volumes, one 
describing the geology of ras seis another its fauna and flora, 
and the third its manufactu Moreover several scientific col- 
y 
on his African a pe Sa acnasy evening, by the same, 
to the _workingmen 0 lasgow. In addition, we excursion while 
of various kinds, were mainly for scientific purpo 
The following works were received too late to in here noticed: 
Reports on the Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, by J. J. Stevenson and 
Professor hen, dr. 
of them core of Lieut. Wheeler’s Expedition. 1020 pp. 4to. with many plates, part 
them co 
The American Bisons, living and extinct, by J. A. Allen. bod pp. 4to, with 12 
plates. Memoirs of the Mus. Compar. Zool., ‘Giaishtidess Mas 
Monograph of American Trilobites, Part I; by A. vunkee U; B.A. 0 DP 
Tampa, Florida. 1876. 
OBITUARY. 
pressed in his will, no official Powis of gs Academy W ihe 
present at his funeral, and no funeral oration was pronour 
over his grave 
