450 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
“In this feeling we take the liberty of inviting a collection for the 
Humboldt-Stiftung, and beg that subscriptions may be sent to the banking 
house of Mendelsshon & Co., in Berlin, The collected capital will be 
invested with prudence and the interest “4 to the specified objects. 
In six months a report will be rendered to the public. 
“We recommend then in full confidence to the active friendship of all 
ho recognize in truth and gratitude the greatness of the de parted, an 
insttation which will work down to remote ages in Humboldt’s spirit, 
o honor to his name.” 
wT his memorial is signed by F. v. Bunsen, Ehrenberg, Dove, Encke, 
Lepsius, ape ee itter, and sixteen others. 
9th Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement J 
Science was held at Aberdeen, Scotland, commencing on the 14 
September.—It was graced by ae presence and the hospitality of Koy. 
alty. The Prince Consort m a very sensible opening speech, 2 
the reser appears to have bien} in all respects a good one. 
6. . D. Daya sailed for Europe in October, for an absence of 
about a viet, Rest from his too severe and long co ntinued scientifie 
i di 
we dont re sgt to say that Dr. Newberry is connected wit 
a government expedition under the War Department, commanded by 
Capt. McComb of the U. S. Army, under whose direction the investiga- 
tions are being made. ‘ 
9. Journal “of the American Oriental Society. Vol. vi, No. 1—This 
Society, in its zealous cultivation of oriental literature, has just now been 
placiag the scientific world under special obligations. ‘Two important 
papers, revealing to the En bas ader some of the treasures of Oriental 
science, occupy nearly the entire number . the Journal now before us, 
the annual half volume for the current yea 
e first is an article of 128 pages oy ‘the Chevalier N. Khanikoff, 
Sunies erage at Tabriz, oe It consists of an analysis and 
_ xtracts of an Arabic work on the water-balance, written by ‘al-Khazint 
n the twelfth eontaty, and entitled Book of the Balance of Wisdom. 
This paper, ‘originally in French, the Committee of Publication have here 
presented in English, with a translation de novo of the exte extracts 
from the original work, which are here printed in Arig in connection 
lance 
ning specific gravities; andthe Arabic work here analyzed and 
rt a peerantic treatise on the subject, containi pearl oe in detail, — 
of several ingenious forms of such ces 5 
with figures 
of the el and mechanical prssipie involved in their construe- 
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