Miscellaneous Intelligence. — 829 
repr mie grandly _ indie of the Colorado and of other parts 
of the region under survey. 
2. Smithsonian Conte ibutions to Knowledge, 1874, 4to. Miscel- 
laneous Collections, Vols. xi, xii, 8vo, 1874,—The : very valuable 
by t 
of three volumes a lint the year ; Tie yolaine of Contribu- 
tions contains Problems of Rotary motion presented by the Gy- 
roscope, t e Precession. of the Equinoxes and the Pendulum, b 
Brevet Maj. Gen. J. G. Barnard; a contribution to the History of 
the Fresh-water gee a N. America, by H. C. Wood, Jr., M.D., 
with 21 plates, many of them color red ; an investigation of the 
Orbit of Uranus, with general lle ‘of its motion, by Sim 
Newcomb. 
Vol. xi, of the Miscellaneous Collections, contains memoirs on 
the Arrangements of Mammals and Fishes , by Dr. T. Gill (200 
PP-)5 sae apbsmee of N. A. me ige by H. Lew w (376 pp.); on col- 
lecting and preserving Insects, by A. 8. Packard, Jr. (60 pp.); 
New cae 4 Pe and plum anno of the Coleoptera, by J. 
L. fies (146 pp.).—Vol. xii contains a Review of American 
Birds in the eat ti a Museum, by 8. F. Baird (484 pp.) ; the 
Constants of Nature, Part 1: Specific gravities, Boiling and Melt- 
ing Points and Chemical Formule, by F. W. Clarke (272 
on Telegraphic Announcements of ‘Astronomical discov eries, by 
J oaeghs Henry (4 
emical amination of Alcoholie Liquors; by Pro- 
oe ' A. B. Pruscorr. 108 pp., 12mo. New York. 1875. (Van 
which now slumber in the statute books of this country, have 
been framed with so little skill or with such bigotry or partizan- 
ship as to be practically inoperative. The importance to society 
that all articles used as foods, medicines, or goon wet should be 
held subject to strict scientific examination by authority of law. 
and that the frauds now practiced should be systemateall ex- 
posed and jolous 10 | is such as to admit of no deb he 
: h : 
meeting them, not only i in this Manual of Dr. Prescott, but also 
thro ough the use of the Outlines of Pewumats Organic ‘Analysis, 
bo the same author, already noticed. 
4. Appleton’s U clopedia, -- The American Cyclopedia: a ae 
ca Dictionary of General Knowledge. Edited by Grorer lttpLey 
Cuartes A, Dana. Vols, I—X, 1873-1875. Royal 8vo., 
raat York.—It is now twelve years since the first edition of Apple- 
ton’s American Cyclopedia was finished. It was followed in the 
eleven succeeding years by as many “ Annual Cyclopedias,” uni- 
form tea the original work, in sixteen <aeuen Although much 
the larger part of these volumes is properly given to historic 
political, civil, military and social affairs, including biography, 
