414 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
tween 1833 and 1882, pp. 159-224, by C. A. Scuorr; Barometric 
hypsometry and reduction of the barometer to sea-level, Part II, 
by Wm. Frrret; Report on the oyster beds of the James River, 
Va., and of Tangier and Pocomoke Sounds, Md. and Va., illus: 
trated by m s and plates, by Lieut. F. Winstow ; On the length 
of a sauacil calls , by J. E. Htrearp; On a method of es 
TT the flexure of pendulum supports, by C.S, PEtrcE; 
On the deduction of the electricity of the earth from pendulum 
experiments ; On a method of observing the coincidence of vibra- 
tions of two pendaluins, by C.S. Perrcr; On the value of gravity 
at Paris, by C. 8. Peirce; New rule for tides in Delaware Bay, 
by H. Mrrenern 
Besides these papers the appendix contains a “ General Index of 
septa papers, methods and results contained in the appendices 
o the Annual Reports of the U. 8. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 
fort 1845 to 1880 inclusive,” by C. H. fea which, on ac- 
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count of the great value of the papers, will call forth the hearty | 
thanks of all interested in the progress of science. 
Hydraulic Tables for the Calculation of the thee seo through Sewers, Pipes 
and Conduits, based on Kutter’s formula, , by J. P. Flynn, Civil Engineer. 136 pp. 
l6émo. New "Yor k, 1883 (D. Van Nos 
Phyt ogeogenesis. Die vorweltliche Paiaiidialoan a bear und -der 
4 pp. Leipzig 
Pflanzen in mdr gna dargestellt von Dr. Otto Kunze. 
(Paul Frohberg). 
Report of the Mineral Resources of the United States for 1882 and 7 first six 
none of 1883, by Albert Williams, Jr., U. S. Geological Survey. 814 pp. 8¥° 
A pag agh of the Geology of the erage Lode and the Aye hoe District, by 
Grorcr-F. Becker. Extr. fro m the Ann. Re ep. U. 8 Geol. Survey, 1880-81. 
pp. 293-330, with colored maps. ashin 
Geologic. al Surv cette of Illinois, pn es Wathen, State Geologist. Vol. VIL. 374 
tes. May, 1 
Lehrbuch der ve A grease pees der Wirbelthiere auf Grundl yore 
Entwicklungsgeschichte, by Prof. Dr. R. Widersheim. 2nd part (and last) — 
908 pp., June, 1883 (Gustav Fischer). 
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s Lawrence Smit Ane J. Lawrence Smith died at his 
residence in Louisville, Kea ucky, on the 12th of October. © 
s born near Charleston, South Carolina, on = 16th of Decem- 
eee 1818, and was therefore in his 65th . He was a grad- 
uate of the Univ ersity of Virginia and of shes ‘Medics al ie of 
Charleston. After leavin 
years in Europe and roagie ct Paris, pursuing studies ce ‘ 
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