Miscellaneous Intelligence. a 
104° 30’ and 109° 30’. Mr. A. D. Wilson, chief of field party No. 
1, will survey an area in the southern part of Colorado, _—s a 
portion of norther rm ee = ‘xico lyin g between lat. 36° and 
37° long. 105° and 108°. Mr. Henry Gannet, in thoes of 
field party No. 2, will ooeupy the area between lat. 38° and 39° 
15‘ and long. 108° and 109° 3 
Field party No. 3 will pb ve the area in the southwestern 
Colorado eee lat. 36° 45’ and 38° and long. 108° and 109° 
30’. Fie arty No. 4 will complete unfinished areas in central 
and eastern Golacades The photographie party under Mr. Jack- 
n will n study of the ancie ‘ivers in s§ ath m and 
other two, The maps will be jesuied as geological as well as topo- 
graphical — in the final atla 
7. National Acade emy of iene —The following is a list of 
the paper > oe at the session of the ° a ras demy of Sci- 
ences, held on the 20th to the 22nd of April, 1 
Results derived from an examination of the U. S. Weather en for 1872-3-4 ; 
Loomis. 
Notes on observations of the transit of Venus; G. Davi 
n improvement of the present civil or ronorias clea: J. P. Bradley. 
Results of experiments on the set of er ten as ular of wood, iron and steel, 
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Report of the Committee on Weights, Measures a ie ‘oin Tae F. A. P. Barnard. 
On the observations of contacts in transits of Venus and Mercury; 8. Newcom ib. 
New formula for the deflections of rectangular bars or beams, resting on sup- 
ports and subjected to a transverse stress: W. a ‘ ron 
Size of the pes in extil 
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Account of researches in Solar eg na $s the Allegheny Observatory 
during Se past fot Bach 2 op 
Use of the Stereoscope in the sendy. of. Solid Geometry; James D. W 
On is jaberpolatlon: oi of a or ge of sign by passage throo gh i se ofa. a mathe 
a compounds upon Vegetation; Wm. MceM 
Treiies shad Fea saat of results of a Maynetic Survey, made at the as of the 
Bache Fund; J. E. Hilgar 
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ag thoy of some of our sneer vita Fishes to living Forms; J. S. Newberry. 
On a of Cold; by A. Woe 
and in cla Beouath a deep bed of muck, ie are in an exce lent 
state of preservation. This Otisville mastodon is the sixth that 
has been found in the swamps of Orange County. 
