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the Pacific slope of N. America, that Lieutenant (now General) 
Aug, V, autz, U. S. A., attempted to ascend Mt. Rainier in 
1856 or 1857, but found his way barred by great glaciers; and 
that Mr. Coleman, of the Alpine Club, ascended Mt. Baker in 
1869, and published that year a description of the glaciers, in 
“i Magazine with illustrations.—Proc. Cal. Acad. Sei., iv, 
, 1871, 
3. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.—With Jan- 
uary of 1871, this academy commenced the third series of the 
Volumes, commenced in 1857 , and is sold for $42 to members, and 
$3.75 per volume to the public. The first series of 8 volumes 
he first series of the Journal of the Academy consists of eight 
octavo volumes. The new series, in quarto, was commenced in 
1847, and seven volumes have been published. The price per 
volume is $10, 
4. Memorie della Societa dei Spettroscopisti Italiani ; edited by 
close of last y 
aris, an 
has since been added, that is at Florence, by Donati 
An Italian Society has been formed for the prosecution of 
Spectroscopic observations and their publication, and four numbers 
of their Memoirs, corresponding to the first four months of 1872, 
for the protuberances ; by A. Secchi. (Two plates.) 
by P rg 
y +. Tacchini. (Two plates.) 
diene Fab a f 
. Tibution; by A. Secchi. 2. Spectroscopic pictures of sun’s 
limb, made at athioess Rome, and Padua, on the 1ith and 12th of 
December, 1871, by Tacchini, Secchi, and Lorenzoni. (One plate). 
April, 1, On the deviation of the lines of ve spectrum due to 
ange of temperature of the prism; by P. ‘ 
i sae pictures of the sun’s hab, made at Palermo and Rome in 
