Miscellaneous Intelligence. 85 
the material in solution (2°263 to 3°042 grains per liter), and the 
gases are carbonic acid and hydrogen sulphide; and pp. 2371- 
2395 a report on the Mammals and Birds of the general region of 
the Big Horn River and Mountains of Montana Territory, by 
C. E. McChesney, Asst. Surgeon, U. 8. A. 
4, Report on the Meteorology of Tokio, for the year 1879; 
by Prof. T. C. MenpennAt.— his report forms Part I of vol. iii 
of the Memoirs of the Science Department of the University of 
Tokio. It contains the usual meteorological observations, and its 
notable feature is the free use of graphical representation of most 
of the results. Its forty-one pages of letter-press, including tables, 
are accompanied by twenty-seven pages of charts showing curves 
of barometer and thermometer, prevailing winds, rain-fall, ete. 
It is published by the University and is handsomely printed at 
the Government Printing Office. C. G. R. 
5. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Part VI; 
Report of the Commissioner, Dr. SpPENcER F, Batrp, for the year 
1878. Ixiv and 988 pp. 8vo. Washington. 1880.—The promi- 
directions, or is doing, together with a statement of the objects 
of the Fish Commission and of the assistance it has received from 
the departments of the Government, is briefly brought out in an 
Introductory Chapter of Ixiv pages; and then follows the appen- 
dix, of 974 pages, which consists of papers giving full details and 
descriptions on these and other topics. Among these papers 
there are the following in descriptive Natural History: On the 
marine Isopoda of New England and adjacent waters (some of 
which are parasitic on fishes), by Oscar Hareur, illustrated by 
13 plates ; on the Pyenogonida of the same region, by E. B. W11- 
i 1 
SON, with 7 plates. Another of botanical interest, is, on the na- 
mer season, : 
the red color is owing to a very minute plant known to botanists 
h 
supervision and judicious management of the Commissioner, 
Professor Baird. 
