Miscellaneous Intelligence 165 
The officers assigned to duty as the expeditionary force are 
Lieut. P. Henry Ray, of the 8th Infantry, Acting Signal Officer, 
and Commander of the Expedition; G. S. Otpmixon, U.S. Army, 
U. 
Aitieg Assistant Surgeon; Sergeants J. Murpocn, U.S. A., and 
Mippieton Smita S. ‘A., aturalists and Observers; Capt. 
E. EEN, "Interpreter, Storekeeper, etc.; Mr, A. C. Dark 
i the Cons Survey), Astronomer and Ma agnetic diene er. 
The meteorological and tidal observations will be made at exact 
hours of Wy asin gion civil time—the longitude of ie Washington 
Observatory being 5" 8™ 12°09 west of Greenwich ; and the regu- 
lar magnetic observations at even hours and minutes of Gottingen 
ean time—Gottingen being in 0° 39™ 4624 east of Greenwich, 
or 5" 47" 58°33 east of Washington. The equipment in instru- 
ments for the various kinds of physical observations is to be very 
complete. 
2. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithso-— 
—— Institution, for the year 1879. 632 pp. 8vo. Washington, 
—The Smithsonian Institution is ably fulfilling its purposes 
disdes Professor Baird, in the various ways established during the 
administration of Professor enry. is Report gives an account 
of what it is doing in the way of aiding and extending research 
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and explorations, making collections and sustaining the National 
Museum, carrying fo rward the objects of the Fish Commission, 
making exchanges in specimens, transporting exchanges in publi- 
cations between this and foreign countries and by various sone 
methods. Pages 143 to 212 are occupied with a memoir on Ja 
Smithson and his bequest. Next follows the General Appendix 
on the present fundamental tee of Pigeinl Pa ihe ts ty 
p n anent Secretary of the Netherland 
Society of Sciences, Harlem, on a Universal Meteorograph designed 
— detached Observatori 
. Endowment of the aie Chemical Society.—An eftort 
ai now on foot, and vigorously es shed, to secure an endowment 
for the maintenance of the American Chemical Society. e 
sum proposed to be raised is fifte en thousand dollars, and a list 
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Fund mittee, and receives notices of subscriptions. This 
laudable effort will, when complete, place the gainer) of the 
Journal of the Society upon a safe basis. The chemical manufac- 
turers of the United States are a wealthy bod ‘id we notice with 
wealth among the chemical investigators, but the names of several 
of the leading ‘chemical teachers are recorded as subscribers to 
this fund ; and aid from others is invited. 
