448 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
13. Black’s Atlas of North America.—A series of twenty Maps, con- 
structed and engraved by Jonny Barrsotomew, with introductory letter- 
press and a com nplete index. Edinburgh: Adam p ee Black, 1856. 
Demi-folio—This is an excellent series of ma atly engrav ved and 
bearing evidence of a careful study of late suibhorities of North American 
feet The grouping of subjects in the maps is uh and 
taste 
atlas is very moderate, (16s. sterl.) It is imported in large quantity by 
Messrs. Little, Brown & Co., of Boston. 
14. Systematic Philosophy, and New Theories of Light amd Heat ; 
by Georce Fettows Harrineton. 108 pp. 8vo. London, 1857.— 
This is an interesting work, but novel in its views; and so ws as it is vats 
it is at variance with a ecepted philosophy and what we regard as 
tablished truth in dunia and physics. In an peat ‘he author 
writes as follows on the open polar sea :— 
“ The open sea, thus discovered and spoken of by Dr. Kane, extending 
northward from the 80°, proves the existence of a milder climate than is 
found a few d to the south ; and as the climate gradually becomes 
milder northward, probably, from ‘the 7 5°, there must be a process going 
of limate, or ould not be found in a fluid state beyond the 
80° of north latitude—a ee of nearly seven hundred English miles 
from the pole itself. I am at a loss to know what the process can 
which produces such heat, unless it is bara by the inflammation of 
the electricity necessary to feed the flam ming aurora borealis, as already 
described. And if the heat there existing is produced by these means, 
so as to be palpably felt at the distance of seven hundred pile from the 
centre of the fire, what must it be at the pole itself?” 
College, Bru aine.—This eminent author and ett has been 
lon. wn as one of our most igs ees and useful professors of 
science. as born in the town of Essex, Mass., January 15, 1780, 
distinguished classmates were the Hoon bata uel D. Parker and General 
- William H. Sumner of Jamaica 
Appointed to a tutorship in Hunat in 1803, he held the office only 
two years, when he accepted the Professorship of Mathematics, Natural 
Philosophy, Chemistry and Mineralogy in Bowdoin College—fo our ated 
festorshipe as ey are usually paler in European universities—a hea’ 
a) 
wet his lamented death Capt 3 16, 1858, at the age of 78-9. He 
a member of by American Academ y of Arts and Sciences, of the 
vs and of the Maine Historical He was an ae 
ical Society of eat at and of several other 
