84 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
of the character of the volume may be obtained from the titles 
of some of the ecg taken at random, such as:—The Son of the 
Earth (the Moon) ; A well known ouest (the Cdmet Pons) ; The 
Star of the three Kings (new Stars); How one becomes an 
a (Bessel). 
a Mitchell Scientific Society of Raleigh, W. U., Jour- 
nal on eekeg year 1883-84.—This society, now a year old, is ‘named 
after an able professor of Chemistry of the University of North 
Carolina, Elisha Mitchell—“a naturalist by inheritance, by m- 
clination, , by education and by profession”— whose lamented death 
occurred in 1857, by a fall from a precipice while moecsdins Black 
Mountain. In 1835 he measured the altitude of t s peak, an 
found it 5,508 feet above Morgantown, which, with - now known 
height of "Mo rgantown, makes it 6, 708 feet above the sea—only 
7 feet above the height obtained by Professor Guyot in 1856. 
His ascent in 1857 was nadertaken to remove a lingering re 
tion of the Society contains atte on his eboaateasic deposits of 
North Carolina, by C. W. Dab y, Jr. and W. B. Phillips, analyses 
of the cassiterite of King’s Mechiate N. C., by C. W. Dabney; 
on Indian Burial Grounds of North Carolina, by J. A. Holmes, 
and other papers of interest. 
9. Leisure Hours among the Gems; by Aveustus C. HamMLtn. 
8vo, with two colored plates. Boston, 1884 (James 
c. 
vanced, however, will not always bear examination, an 
good deal of space is given to the discussion of irrelevant matter. 
A Treatise on ~ Principles of ae by M. M. apie Muir, M.A., 
F.R.S.E. 488 pp. 8vo. Cambridge, 1884. (University Pres 
The Elements of peersce 8 Inorganic and Organic, ma Professor Sidney A 
Norton. 504 pp. 8vo. Cincinnati and New York, 4. (Van Antwerp 
Bragg & Co. 
Bulletin de la Société Belge Perieven zou premier, 1884. Brussells. 
Bulletin No. 2, of the Illinois State Museum of Natural History, Springfield, 
Tilinois, 28 pp. 8vo. Contains desrintions of new Carboniferous Crustaceans, — 
bah os honey year b A. H. Wor 
Memoirs of the Geological Survey of cane —Fossil Echinoidea from Wester= 
Sind, with 16 plates, by P. Martin Duncan and W. Percy Sladen. Calcutta, 1882 . 
OBITUARY. 
LBE.—It is announced that the German chemist, 
Hermann. Ko . 
Professor Hermann Kolbe, died suddenly on the 25th of last . 
November, in his ihe ye ar. A sks ch of his life and work 18 
t 
promised to appear in the coming number of the Journal fut — 
prakti ische Chemie, ‘of which he was long the editor. 
