496 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
23. The President of the mgs is Principal J. W. Dawson, of 
McGill University, Montrea S now arranged there are ney 
ics and Astronomy, We. Lrg ll B. “Physics, Th 
Science, W. P. TrowsripGE; E. Googe: Sad Genora 
ee F. Biology, W. H. Dati; G. Histology ae Microscopy, 
H. Turrte; H. Anthropo olo BY, ae Wi. Eco 
nomic Science, and Statistics, E. B. Extiorr. A large meeting is 
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scientists who have been cpactalls eerste the: eine. have 
signified their intention of being present: Szané of Buda-Pest, 
Rénarp of Brussels, SrepHanesco of Bucharest, .. CaR- 
PENTER of London, grulees HavueGuron and FrrzqEratp of 
Dublin, and Sotras of Brist 
Treatise on akon, Spherical and Physical; by W. A. 
Norron. 5th edition revised and enlarged. New York. (Wiley 
and Sons.)—In this new edition of his well known and much val- 
ued work eee author has, besides embodying the recent researches 
and discoveries, added in the appendices new investigations and 
theoretical Taina in Astronomical Physics. 
bstract of a Report upon the Geology and sag 3 ieee = ee 
Colorado, et 8. i comes ida od in-charge Rocky M 5 Ue 
Geo 203-290, with two coloured vest fron: ‘the car pai ps saehh of 
the Hanae of the. s . Geol. Su mes transmitted Bie ¢.1.1881. Washington, 1882. 
upon Experime ents and Investigations to develop a system of Submarine 
i te 8 it 
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‘dier General, U. 8. A., member of the — 444 pp. 4to. less waaay 1881. 
ay oenrage papers of the Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., No. 
Insects Injurio st ‘to Fo bene and Shade T rees, b A. 8. Pi ACKARD, Jr., M.D. 
Bulletin No. 7 of the U. Gan E pe: gical ohana: Dept. of the Interior. 
276 od be Washin 
rt on the orgs a of “Tokio for the year 1880. by T. C. sh i aggre 
Ph ig Professor Experimental Physics in Tokio, Daigaku. Mem of the 
Science Dept. of the Univ. of Tokio. The work contains a thorough Hacuasicn, of 
the subject, with nume: erous tables, charts and diagram 
the U. S. Pacific coast to the end of 1879, by T. oe Washingt 
Results of Meteorological Observations at Providence, R. I.. for 4 5 yen, from 
— ed 1876, by ALE see CASWELL. Smithsonian Contributions, meu 4 pp- 
nington, D. C 
pilose of a Natural History Society of New Brunswick, St. John, N. B. 
1882. 
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Descriptions of New Species of pais from Ohio, with remarks on the aces f 
ical formations in which they occur, by R. P. WHrirFigtp. March, 1882, Vol. i 
No. 8 of the Annals N. Y. Acad. Sei. 
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OBITUARY. 
Sir Cuartes Wrvitte Taomson.—Sir Charles Wyville Thom- 
son was born March 5th, 1830, at Bonsyde, Linlithgow, Scotland, 
where he died March 15, 1882. His father, a surgeon in the ser- 
vice of the East India Company, intended to make him a physi- 
cian. But the ‘oan sete had no charm for him excepy oe 
