88 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
port, Iowa, 1882.—This numbey of the Proceedings is devoted 
almost who ly to American Archeology, several important papers 
on this subject being depp» in it, and the plates being devoted 
to pacoatie t them. Their authors are, G. Seyffarth, W. 
si a odin D r. W. J. Hoffman, Rey. A. Blumer and 
ev. oy. Gass. Other ae baie papers treat of the pa of West- 
ern Cicade, by J. D. Putnam; two new species of Oaytheca, 
from Southern California, by Dr. C. C. Parry ; Gealagion! notes 
by "Mr. W.. H. Pratt, and Fete of Explorations in “[daho and 
Montana, by E. L. Bertho 
Madeira Meteorologic, being a paper on the subject read before the Royal 
Society, Edinburgh, May 1, 1882, by C. Piazzi Smith, A a omer Royal for 
12mo i 
The Climatic changes of ati geological times. Part ILI. By J. D. Whitney. 
to) 1882. 
Selections from itistryolovical Mono ographs, compiled by A. Agassiz, W. Fax 
and Mark. 1. ee with eo _ Ato. =o of the Museum of 
Com mpara ative Zoology, © idge, vol. ix, No. J. 
Celestial charts ~— ae a Lite Observatory 2 Hamilton College, Clinton, 
N. Y., by C. H. F. Peters. Charts 1 to 20. 188 
Mineral statistics of Michigan : 1881. 262 pages 8vo, with numerous sec- 
tions. Lansing, Michigan, 
The Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota. 10th A nnual 
Report, for the year 1881. N. H. Winchell, State Geologist. 254 pp. 8vo, wh 
maps and plates. St. Paul, Minn., 
First Annual Catalogue of the Sta e Museum of California, Henry G. Hanks, 
State Mineralogist. 350 pp. 8vo Sooraie ento, 
Transactions of t eo Wisconsin Academ my al Sciences, Arts and Letters, vol. ¥, 
gp oe 364 pp. 8vo. Madison, Wisconsin, 
ransactions of ~~ ee ‘Socio ety of New York, vol. i, 168 pp. 8vo, with 
dale New York 
Geological surrey. 7 *t ewfoundland—Report of robe for the year 188 
~seurr m8 Murray, C. M. G., Director. 16 pp. 8vo, with maps. St. John’s, New. 
fou: ois 
The f the Gas Engine, by Dugald Clerk. 164 pp. 16mo. New York, 
1882. ‘. Van Nostrand). 
Nachtriige zur Dyas II, von Dr. Hanns Bruno Geinitz und Dr. J. V. Deich- 
miller. 46 pp. 4to, with 9 plates. Kassel and Berlin, 1882. 
OBITUARY, 
Franz von Kopett, the Mags pang 502 of Munich, died 
on the 11th of N ovember last. The e of von Kobell has been 
identified with Mineralogy ye more gyri fifty ye and the 
g as published, bear testimony to the industry 
that characterized his long life. in addition to minor researches 
he was the author of an elementary work on general mineralogy 
which has gone through five editions, of a history of mine eralogy, 
and of a series of tables for determining mineral species whic 
f w 
t. 
man of unusual general culture, being a poet as well as mineral- 
ogist, and in his character he was most attractive; the many 
American students to whom he has shown ki ndness will never 
forget the impression which his genial courtesy made upon them. 
