484 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
of places over this and other countries; also an almanac for the 
19t gent an astrononical almanac ; the deaf and dumb alpha- 
bet, e 
ay ae Elementary Manual of Chemistry, abridged from Eliot 
and Storer’s Manual, with the codperation of the authors, by Mr. 
Rietey Nicuots, Assistant Professor of General Chemistry i in the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 370 pp. New York, 
1872, Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co.—This is an abridgement 
and revision of the Manual of Inorganic Chemistry, with which is 
PpPp- 
New York.—The first number of this important monthly ss 
in May. The two issued treat, as the title implies, of eee 
a 
that are now ve giant Pretarg 6 tor Zh the popular min e largest 
topic is man in his s relations, zoological, geological, social, 
political, pinobtionsl, "reli phoak, etc.; and the widest range of opin- 
bs oi. on some rs — subjects, in the different papers. 
a teat commences in these numbers a series of able 
ai on Social Science or  Boelbice Other articles treat, of the 
eclipse of the sun ; the sun’s spots: ‘. uvius ; the superstitions of 
medicine ; the art rtificial production of stupidity in schools; the 
physiological position of alcohol, and various miscellaneous topics 
of interest. The June No. has as a frontispiece an excellent por- 
trait of Sir Charles Lyell. 
OBITUARY. 
Dr. Witi1am Srrmpson.—<As these last pages are going to 
press, we learn that Dr. Stimpson died on the evening of the 26th 
y- He had recently returned from a dredging expedition 
across the Gulf of Mexico, and had been very ill since bis return. 
as for many years been well known as one of the leading 
zoologists of this country, and has pra himself chiefly to ma- 
rine eee ta brata. A more extended notice is deferred to the 
next n er. 
A Cai ec of the Birds of Kansas, by Frank H. Snow, Prof. Nat. Hist. _ 
Meteorology in the University of Kansas, at Lawrence. Contributed abl 
Kansas Academy of Science. 8 pp. 8vo, Topeka, Kansas, 1872. This list com 
. tains ria names of 239 species, with brief notes on many of them 
woman 
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