330 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
statistics, commerce, finance, and literature—science has by n 
means been neglect ted, as we have in successive years pointed nit 
in our a eI ‘notices, 
ew edition of this work, of which ten volumes are now 
Safe was undertaken in 1873. No decade of this century has been 
marked by more rapid advances in science than that covering the 
interval between these two editions; and equally remarkable have 
been the social and political change es. To fuse ‘all the new mate- 
rial, thus seawt accumulated, with the old, into a homogeneous 
and compact unity, has required the recasting of the whole work. 
Of course a large number of writers and revisers have been busy 
in preparing the eight or nine thousand closely printed pages in 
the ten volumes already published. Many of these articles are 
edition; while, as fa e have examined the several = 
the matter of former scientific and technical articles has ex- 
tensively revised with care and good editorship. The h- 
ous scientific topics. The authorship of some of the ok 
chemical, geolo gical, and technical articles is as follows: Count 
L. F. de Pourtalés, of the U. S. Coast Survey, Prof. J. E. Hilgard, 
Dr. Thomas M. Drown, spies Cleveland Abbé, Dr. Rossiter W. 
Raymond, Dr. T. 8S. H mr A. M. Mayer, Dr. Joy, and Dr. 
Charles L. Hogeboom. tas of the astronomical suiclet are 
from the pen of Mr. Richard A Proctor, of Englan 
The tenth volume ends with “ Magus, ” by Cleveland Abbe. 
5. Transactions of the Pageeepeey sega of Mining Engineers. 
Vol. ii. May, 1873, to Feb., 18 1 pp. 8vo, with 3 plates. Eas- 
ton, Pa. Pub blished by the Inatitute, at the office of the Secretary, 
Lafayette College.—This vigorous young society is doing good 
service in its  enepeaary: contributions of original memoirs on sub- 
jects appropriate to its purposes, many of them of permanent 
value, recording the results of methods and investigations of ime. 
‘oreraly to all concerned in such matters. 
6. U. 8. Northern Boundary Clorkindgeite, A. CAMPBELL, 9 a 
missioner, Natural History,No. 1. On the Muride, by Dr. E. 
Couns, U. 8. A., Surgeon and Naturalist of the Commission. Re- 
issued with additions from the Proc. Acad. N. Sci. Philad., 1874. 
28 pp., 8vo, 1874. Contains many valuable notes on the mpecie 
Birds of the Northwest: a Handbook of the Ornithology of the magi 
by the Missouri River and its Tributaries; by Exniort Coves, Capt. 
Surgeon U. 8. A.— Miscellaneous publications 3, of U. 8. Geol. Survey ‘a ag ‘Ter 
ritories, F. V. howe EN, U. 8. bg aoe pier 792 he a8 8vo. 
Texas skew tn t letter se the edits, pute 
that the heading of Scrian in his Report ep a ties treating of the Tren- 
hy formation ae p. 224 of this volume) was a printer’s error. There is n 
suggest this.—Eps. 
in the Report to 
