154 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
“In short, it should be the medium of all kinds of information 
taining to the science, to which a lprge. proportion of our mathematics 
students have at present n o ready acc 
Mr. Runkle has also. in view to issue prizes for prize problems and 
oo essays. 
e Journal is one very much needed in the country, and should suc- 
d. te: plan is ample and generous, and the known ability and Fey 
of the editor will give it character and success, if the coun 
tain him. Annual subscription per single copy 
3. roceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at its 
Siath Annual ies pra held in Philadelphia, Sept.1857. 8vo, pp. 178, ne 
is session of the Association appears to have been more fully at- 
fended than previogs ones, and quite fruitful of Seg proposed for 
future investigation. Scientific reports were made o important 
subjects, affording gratifying evidence of the zeal and ability of its mem- 
oe Among these, that on the “Progress of Pharmacy” is very full, 
ving a comprehensive resumé of the improvements and discoveries. in 
Practical pap pharmacy and materia-medica dung. me year. 
That on provements in methods of rendering me cinal prepata- 
tions ne: to on eye and to the taste, and agreeable ss use,” contains 4 
information of great practical importance to all be lg of ‘medicines, = 
and if adopted by them would largely increase their trade, while cone al 
uting still more to the comfort of the sick. It has frequently been to. us 
a matter of wonder that so little attention is paid to this subject by 
apothecaries generally, while every consideration of humanity, refine 
ment and taste demands it. 
A report on “ Weights and Measures,” one on “New England Isin~ 
» “and another on the “Manufacture of Iodine from the ashes of 
sea-weeds,” are rt and — e favorably with reports of other sci- 
of the profession—a subject which ought to be sabi more fully . 
frequently under consideration, This must sama result hawern iit - 
chet re 
rey. 
Sn ea eeee a ‘ociety of London.—The Wollaston medals of the — 
ent year have been Sitered by the Geological Society of London on. 
Hermany vow Muyer of Frankfort-on-the-Maine, and Professor JAMES 
Hatt of 
6. Addendum to the article on the U.S. Coal Measures (p.11 ioe 
to E. T. Cox, coal bed No. 9 contains the fossils Avicula recta-l 
