338 Misccllaneous Intelligence. 
of the disturbance; as if this district were, from the seismic 
point of view, under caulliions different from those which affect 
adjacent cantons of November, 1881, s also 
distinct shocks of earthquake had occurred within the month, 
and of its thirty days there were only thirteen on which an earth- 
quake did not occur in some part of Switzerland. They were 
traceable to three principal centers; the first, at the commence- 
on ne the month, in the Pays @’ Enhaut and the Vaudoise Alps; 
the second in Eastern Swviteerldnd « the third, at the end of the 
oats in the lower Valais, from Martigny to Lake sei 
sR 
7. Glacier scratches in the Catskills.—Dr. J Sesion in the wae 
actions of the New York Academy of Sciences, Ae i, no. 2, 
states that he has found no glacial s yritohek near the Clove 
nen of Round Top, at 2,871 ae ay direction of este 
W., magneti S. 35° E. He remarks 
tat ae hi ighest sera siches ee a in the Catskills occur on 
Overlook Mountain, at an elevation of about 3,100 feet, showing 
that the ice surface was at least 3,200 over this part of the Cats- 
kill region. He concludes that there were two movements over 
appoined D 
Surveys of heeni “Britain eis — and Director of the Museum 
of Practical Geology in Lor 
The Constants of Nature, Part V: A _reqpitalation of the Atomic Weights, by 
F. ; hem. and Phys. Univ. Cincinnati. Smithsonian Miscel- - 
laneous Contributions, No. 441 280 pp. een,” Washington, 1882. 
Fifty Years of Science, being the ‘Address delivered at York to the British 
i ‘dent 
90 pp. 8vo. London, 1882. (MacMillan & Co.)— —The extracts from this address 
in a former volume of this Journal are enough to seat a desire for this volume 
which gives it entire 
OBITUARY. 
Sir Cuartes Wyvitie THomson died on the 12th of March, at 
the age of fifty-two. oe was born at Bonsyde, Linlithgowshire, on 
chon 5th of March, 830. His ex pa Dk the “an in the Light 
ral 
burgh. His so early departure is say to be aeolae ed. 
