240 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
2. Report on the Climatic and Agricultural Features and the 
Agricultural ipleag ph i of the Arid regions of ue Pacific 
slope, wit. n Arizona and New Mexico. Made under the 
direction of the N Ouitiaanones of Agriculture, by E. W. Hines 
cite ONES an nd R. W. Furnas. 182 . 8vo. Was ashington, 
of California, and en e piplloxers:t in California, b 
gard; on eld ¢ ps sid animal ee stries, by T. ©. Jones; HS 
the standard cadet Peaticucss Alvarado, California, raisin making, 
olive industry, etc., by R. W. Furn 
3. Astronomical and Meteorological Observations made dur- 
ing the year 1878, at the U. 8S. Naval Observatory.—The two ap- 
clei in this volume, Professor Holden’s Monograph on the 
ebula in Orion, and the Longitude of the Observatory at Prince- 
ton, N. J., have already been noticed in this Journal, The vol- 
ume contains, besides these, the regular observations made at the 
Naval Observatory with the large ‘and small equatorials and the 
transit circle. 
. Screncx.—The first number of Science, the prospectus of 
which was noticed on page 87, appeared on the 9th of Februar : 
Report of an examination of the Upper Columbia River and the ter ritory in 
vicinity in September and October, 1881, to determine its navigability, and atap 
bility to steamboat navigation, "made by direction of the Depa aes of the 
Columbia, by Lieut. T. W. Symons, Corps of Engineers, U.S. A. 134 pp. Foy- 
8v ith ma ashi 1882. 
Bulletin of the U. 8. Fish Commission, Spencer F. Baird, Commissioner, vol. I, 
1881, 466 PP. 8vo. Washington 882. 
The American Hateranin’ Fossils of S. A. Miter, Cincinnati. 334 pp., large 
é : second vag of Mr. Miller’s useful w ork, mentioned on page 474 of 
the last volume we is Journal as in the press, has been published. The 4 addi- 
rt of the Entomologist to the eto of ore for the year 1881, 
by Gratis V. Rey, M.A., Ph.D. 214 pp. 8vo, with 19 ae ates, partly colored. 
elektrische edie Giecus ona ihre Anwendun A tae Praxis. Mit 
besonderer enna re auf Srsae Fortleitung und Vertheilung aaa elektrischen Stromes: 
dargestellt von Eduard Japing, dipl. Ingenieur. 236 pp. 12mo, with 45 cuts 
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OBITUARY, 
ALEXIS PERREY, eminent for his long-continued labors in con- 
nection with the department of Earthquakes, and Honora Pro- 
fessor of the Faculty of Sciences at aoe died at Paris, on the 
29th of December last, in his 76th yea 
