248 Scientific Intelligence. 
Decaisne, but is reprinted as a panther of 19 Pages, 8vo. 
contains considerable information which we ha elsewhere 
met with, and is a worthy tribute to the path oll of an Mepis 
man and eminent botanist. A. G 
IV. MisceLLANreous Screntiric INTELLIGENCE. 
. Supplementary note on the Bishopville Meteorite. — Sine 
ee publication of my paper relating to the Bishopville iad 
Waterville meteorites (this Journal for July), Professor C. 
Shepard, Sen., has called my attention to a toot note given in a 
paper of his en ntitled “ Contributions to Mineralogy,” and pub- 
lished at Amherst, Mass., in 1877. 
this note Professor Shepard claimed that his chladnite had 
“very erroneously been confounded with bronzite ;” ‘and that “it 
now seems probable that the blue substance Nodclite| was some 
sponianeonsly pecompanpile compound of S with other elements 
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of the stone. The same may have been the case with 10 Bip ellow 
mineral ‘apatcia] ther ee detected.” Ww. 
Cambridge, Mass., July 2% 
and Ohio Railroad Company ; Professor H 
and Drs. Henry ited u. T. SEDGWICK ee Wx. M 
Brooks, of the Johns Hopkins University. 98 tl 
more, 1882.—These four lectures are thorough in their scientific 
charac n the same time, well adapted by clearness in style 
jects are: How ag nd- "ha Ricaie are built; How we move; 
On Fermentation ; Scie curious kinds of canal locomotion. 
The pamphlet was ‘printed at bee hey of President John W. 
Garrett, of the Railroad Com , for free distribution among 
the employés of the road, ané Ke cok can be secured by w written 
or personal application at ‘the President’s office in Baltimore” 
3. The Iroquois Book of Rites. Edited by Hora 
M.A., author of the Ethnography and Philology of the Wilkes 
U.S. Exploring Expedition, ete. 222 pp. 8vo. Philadelphia, 
1883 (D. G. Brinto on).—This important contribution to American 
history before the time of Columbus, and to the science of human 
progress, is y aman of wide learning and careful research, after 
special investigations among the Indians of the Troquois tribe at 
the reservations in Canada and New York. ‘ ee vol. ii 
of es “Library of Abonagial American Litera 
The meeting of the American Association Socued ¢ on Wednes- 
hey the a of August. As the sessions are still in tiga 
while these pages are printing, a notice of its proceedings 18 
seeesnly deferred. 
Memoir of Lowis Agassiz, by ARNOLD Guyot. 50 pp. 8vo, 1883. see before 
the National Academy of Sciences—An admirable memoir by on was a 
companion of Professor Agassiz from his childhood, in the Neu Pbatel Tebocaits, 
- _— decision to leave the University and Switzerland for the freer land of 
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