238 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
Mountains and the mild equable climate of the summit plateau are 
continuous with those of West Virginia, Kentucky and Alabama; 
its central basin has the same rich “ blue-grass” soil as that of Ken- 
tucky ; and its western border includes a large area of the Missis- 
sippi bottoms. The work opens with a brief de cee of the 
Topographical Features and Natural Divisions, Climate and Geo- 
ogical Formations, followed by chapters upon Facelli 
the State, and will probably many times repay the cost of its 
publication, through the population and capital which it will be 
the means of attracting thither. 
To make this Report quite complete it should be ophea 
by fall. ager as to the geological structure of each county, such 
would be obtained in a careful geological survey. "Iti is much 
he Microscope and = Revelalions: 7 Wm. B. CarpEn- 
1875. hastens & isictecae: )—This is an enlarged and revised 
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ture of the | 
and plants, Se ass ga the Foraminifera, Bathybins, * Coccoliths, 
Bacteria, Diatoms, etc., including many of the recent discove ries 
aoa in ogatseklon with the deep-sea dredgings. ¥ 
t. Katahdin.—Through a ae sro barometrical deter- 
iinsians in August, 1874, Prof. N. C nald has ascertained the 
height of Mount Katahdin above mean riya at Bangor, — 0 
be 5,215°5 feet, with the probable error not exceeding 4'2 
OBITUARY. 
D’Omatius p’Hattoy.—This eminent Belgian geologist, an 
active member of the Giaalogioa! Society of France, di po t Brus- 
sels, on the 15th of oe aged nearly ninety-two yea 
Sir CHaries —Sir — Lyell died on the 3and of 
February, aged favonty aes: yea: 
Annual Report upon the Borer of the Northern and Northeastern ~ in 
charge of ©. B. Comstock, Major of Engineers, Bvt. Brig. General, U. 8. A. 
being Appendix CC to the’ gaye Report of the Chief of Engineers for Sed 
78 ae tips ‘ian 3 arg 187 
of Progress of 2 Geol ogical cage Pt of Canada, for 1873-74, Alfred 
C. oa F.R.S. 270 pp. “ge Montreal, 18 
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