82 Miscellaneous vee 
ent tee: The (lowing is a list of the papers printed in full 
and making up the bulk of the volume: Zui fetiches, by F. 
Cushing; Myths of the Iroquois, by Mrs. Erminnie A. Smith; 
Animal Carvings from the mounds of the regres Valle 
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aed U.S. A.; Art in Shell of the ancient muneakatne by 
Ww. olmes : Ilustr ated Catalogue of the collections obtained 
from the Indians of New Mexico and Arizona, in 1879, and from 
the ama of New Mexico, in 1880, by James Stevenson. 
These papers contain a vast amount of interesting and valuable 
material rendered the more attractive by the profusion of illustra- 
tions, upwards of 700 in number, and many of them colored, the 
excellence of the execution of which leaves nothing to be desired. 
4, Bulletin of the New England Meteorological Society, No. 
mar the meteorological conditions of Ne land for 
November, based upon reports from forty-five observers, six of 
wh were connected witl the U.S. Sig nal Servic ce. B 8 
storms, wind, auroras and earthquakes, etc., some experiments 
are mentioned as having been made by Mr. Desmond Fitz Gerald, 
the open air and in the woods index deciduous, and under pine 
trees. pike! differences of 7° in the maximum, and 9° in the 
minimum temperatures were noted. The mean of twenty- bas 
observations zt the following results : 
Open Air, Deciduous Woods. Pine Woods. 
j 50°18 47° 
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25°82 26°°32 25°-58” 
and mublieh the veunits obtained. . . . The Council has begitt its 
work aos penile to collect ice a meteorological phe- 
nomena, and to issue a monthly bulletin pine repo a summary 
of the sservities. with such other items of interest as it may 
be | aoc to present from time to eine Special attention 18 
paid to precipitation and range of temper ete and many more 
observers are needed. Ghaareatious are welcomed from any one, 
whether a member of the Society or not. ae order to secure 
greater uniformity and accuracy in the records, -gavealet have 
been prepared containing suggestions as to instruments to oe 
used and the best methods of exposure; they can be obtained 0D 
application to the Director, together with blank forms for record _ 
