494 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
3. Upon the formation of a deaf variety of the Human Race; 
by ALEXANDER Grauam Bert. Paper presented to the National 
Academy of Sciences at New Haven, November 13, 1883, 86 pp. 
4to.—Mr. Bell has here brought to bear his scientific wnaigees 
and exact miethote of investigation on a question of gre 
portance to society. He concludes that the tendency to se 
marriage of deaf mutes, rei their congregation in asylums and 
being taught by signs only intelligible among themselves, pro- 
motes intermarriages and the increase in the number of deaf 
mutes, and urges that the schools for them should be small, and 
that insta ~~ in articulation and speech-reading should take 
the place of s 
4. Prchitoniy: Fishing in Europe and North America; by 
CuarLes Rav. 342 pp. 4to, with numerous cuts. Smithsonian 
Contributions to an No. 509.—This volume contains a 
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much ‘about the modes of fishing, the shell hege and other ethno- 
logical facts connected with the seashore Indians. It is full of 
matter of archeological value, all of which is presented in excel- 
lent style, with the best of woodcut illustrations ie esenting the 
various objects siveribed, 
5. Dictionary me Altitudes in the United States ; compiled by 
Henry Gannett, U. 8. Geological Survey. 326 pp. 8vo.— 
valuable volume of reference. tt is essentially a new and en- 
larged edition of the work of Mr. Gannett published by the U. 8. 
Geological Survey of the Territories 1 in successive editions of the 
years 1873, 1875 and 1877. 
Anales de la sa Meteorologia el reer par du Director Benjamin <A. 
Gould. Vol. iv, 600 pp. 4to. Cordoba, 
The Lenape pit their Legends, with de “complete text and symbols of the 
Walam Olum, a new eg se and an en quiry into its authenticity; by Daniel 
. Brinton, A.M., 2 pp. Brinton’s Library of Aboriginal American 
Literature, No. v. Philedelphi. 1885. 
deflective effect of the earth’s rotation; by W.M. Davis. Reprinted inna 
the American Meteorolo treet Journal. Vol. 1, No. 12. 1885. (Wied: 
oe Co., Detroit, Mich.) A brief and simple exposition of the shite 
The osteology of Amia calva, by ye Pes Shufeldt, Rep. Comm. Fish and Fish- 
eries Ag 188s 90 pp. 8vo, with ne 
Die Fauna des Iberger Kalkes, v Clar 94 pp. 8vo, with three 
plates of figures of fossils. Stuttgart, poly iN Jake. f. pr Geol. u, Pal., 1884). 
Asteroidea, ved D. C. Danielssen og Johan Koren. 0 pp. large Sto, wi 
15 plates and 1 map. Den posers Nordhay ig oe nc 1876-1878. XI. 
j 8. 
ps 
Fourteenth Annual Report on the Geological and Natural History of Indiana 
for 188 Sle ‘Collett, State Geologist. Part Ist, Geology and gies wan 
122 pp. 8vo, with a colored geological map of the State; Part 2d, o: ost- 
Pliocene ib pistons, of Indiana, Py. Prof. E. D. Cope and Hob Wrecenan, o pp- 
dianapolis, 
8vo, with 6 ni 1884, 
Bulletin Egret the U. S. National Museum; No. 27, Descriptive aaa ees Consti- 
tuting a Report upon the Exhibit of the Fisheries ‘and Fish-culture of the United 
States | e at m Fisheries Exhibition. 1883; — 
under the direction of G. Browne Goode, U. S. Commi sioner and a staff o 
associates. 1280 pp. 8vo. 1854. Washington. 
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