484 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
9. Statistical Atlas of the United States, based on the results of 
the Ninth a 8, 1870, with contributions from many eminent 
men of scienc ae from sect departments of the Government. 
Compiled, onder authority of Congress, by Francis A. WALKER, 
M.A., Superintendent of the Ninth Census, Professor of Political 
Economy adh History in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale 
College. In large folio. (Julius Bien, Lith.)}—The publication 
of deco 2 and 3 of this Atlas has been already announced on 
prepared 
Schott of the U. 8. Coast Survey; others illustrating the 
meteorological char acteristics of the co untry; one giving the dis- 
distribution of the Coal see compiled by Prof. C. H. Fitohooek 
ne which is an excellent geological chart of the United States, 
19 by 28 inches in size, by Profs. C. H. Hitchcock and W. ake, 
This geological chart has been i ge with care and is beantifal 
in its ‘lithography and coloring. In fact, the whole work is highly 
credi —_ to the photolithographic ccbiabonent of Mr. Bien. 
§ are accompanied by many pages of text giving explana- 
tory, Ieaesintive and statistical faforauieins, We defer to another 
number a more extended notice of the 
tlas 
Popular Science Library.—Under this title D. Appleton & 
Co, are publishing a valuable series of small works in Science. The 
following have been issued: Health, by hale a Situ, F.R.S.; 
The Natural History of Man, by Prof, A. pp QuaTREF GES ; The 
Science of Music, s SyoRen! Wheres: Outline of the “Boolution 
Philosophy, by Dr. E. Cazeiie, with am A pendix b OU- 
MANS, M.D., on Herbert Spencer and t. octrine of Evolution, 
giving a brief exposition of the views ne claims of eagle neer. 
11. New York Academy of Sciences.—The Lyceum of Natural 
History of New York has recently changed its name to New York 
Academy of Sciences 
12. Geological Society of London.—Dr. F. V. Haypen has 
been recently elected Foreign Correspondent of the Geological 
sna! of London, 
of thai by Archibald Geikie. 2vols. London, 1875. (Murray.) 
Alexander, Pee A n. Coll. of — Jersey. 96 pp. 4to. 1875. Smithson 
Contributions to Knowl ledge, No. 
alf-hour Recreations in N sal “History of Estes and Laureat. Boston. 72 to 
80 pages each.—Half-hours with Insects, Parts 6 and 7, a" a 8 pays Jt.— 
The Glacial Epoch of ee Globe, by Alexander Braun. —The § the Earth, by 
Prof. Balfour Stewart, gg" Force electrically explained, ty ae W. Phelps.— 
The first volume of these H alf-hour = euniberthg 478 pages, has 
the publishers in a han : 
Catalogue of the Fishes of the Rast “dbast tat North America, by Theodore Gill. 
Washington, 1875, - pp. 8vo.—Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 
Astronomy by J. N. Lockyer, being io. VII of Science Primers, edited by Pro- 
fessors Huxley, Rosco and Balfour Stewart. 120 pp. 16mo, with many fine 
illustrations. 1875. (D. Appleton & 4 ) 
