Miscellaneous Intelligence. 397 
8 at 5 ’ 
temperatures reappear. I trust that hereafter much attention will 
: : gee 
be given to this point. 
‘The conclusion at which Professor Draper has arrived, from a 
careful examination of the results obtained, is that there exists, all . 
over the bottom of the Atlantic and Caribbean Sea, a stratum of 
n fro 
that there is a general movement of the lower waters of the 
Atlantic toward the equator, and a corresponding flow of the 
surface-waters toward the poles.” ; 
It should be here added that this movement of the oceanic 
waters was long since advocated by the meteorologist, Wm. C. 
Redfield, of New York. 
7. Public Aquarium at Naples.—Antox Doran gives, in Wature 
of April 4, an account of th great a uarium in process of erec- 
tion at Naples under his direction, besides discussing some of the 
objects which science may gain from it. The building 1s rectan- 
gular, measuring 100 feet by 70, with a height of 40 feet, and is 
long, 10 broad and 34 deep, another, 26 feet long, and twenty-six 
rs ished with a co 
8. Corrected longitude results across the North American Conti- 
nent. Note from G. W. Dran (April 8, 1872).—Soon after the 
paper relating to the “U. S. Coast Survey Longitud 
tions across the Continent” had been printed in the December 
number of this Journal,* it was discovered that the corrections for 
* This Journal, II, ii, 447. 
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