398 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
TV. MiIsceELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
and Geodetic Abate Sor » the year ending June, setts report 
exhibits in a striking manner the extension of work expressed in 
the change of name of the Survey by the addition thereto of Geo- 
detic. The carrying of the primary and secondary triangulation 
from the coast over the States has been prosecuted in earnes st. This 
will be of the highest value to the States, since it will give them 
a uniform and connected frame-work for use in all local surveys. 
Incidentally to this is begun the measurement of the are of the 
39th parallel nearly 50° long, and of the 99th degree of longi- 
tude, which in the United States is 23° long, an and which may be 
extended north and south to a length of 50°. This will furnish 
two lines of the highest value in solving the great problem of the 
figure of the earth. The western part of the 39th parallel is 
admirably situated for using long lines in the primary ba ie ula- 
tion. One of those actually observed on is 192 miles lon 
Among the appendices should be tina f named: ar report sec 
the results of the Longitudes of the Coast and Geodetic Survey 
river, by Dr Livre ; a treatise the plane table, 
Rams matwenes on the deter bide Ain of time, longitude, latitude 
and azimuth, by Mr. Scuorr; report on the currents and tempera 
tures of Bering Sea and the adjacent waters, by Mr. Datr; and 
an attempt to solve the problem of the first ‘landing place of 
noe sebede in the new world, by Capt. G. V. Fox 
ott gives in his four papers on the determination of time, 
longitude ‘latitude and azimuth a new edition of paper s that had 
tuvilo ne Mr. Dav a Ns 
2. Teleseopie Meteors.—In the Mheerssvony for April, Mr. Den- 
meteors is as 22 to 1.” He remarks on the apparent slow mouep 
