86 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
6. Réntgen’s ii tat of Thermodynamics, with special 
applications to hot-air, gas and steam engines. Translated, 
OM akg and eniatee® ty A. Jay DuBors. New York, 1880. John 
y & Sons. 8vo, pp. xviii and 641.—The aim of the author and 
of ted translator gb been to furnish a work for the engineering 
“bral e and technical schools suited to the needs of beginners 
ode of treatment, and yet sufficiently wide in its scope 
and practical in its a plications. " Besides the extensive additions 
made by the translator himself there are given as an introduction 
to the whole subject two lectures of Ve rd et. The extent of the 
work is greater than is needed in the class room in order to serve 
as a book of reference. H. A. N. 
he American Naturalist. —The American Entomologist, 
hitherto edited by Mr. C. V. Riley, has been united with the Nat- 
uralist, and the latter will hereafter ae to able assistance of 
a Riley i in the Entomological departme 
The Kansas City Review of Science aud Industry, edited ey 
a 8 Cask, is amonthly “ Record of progress in science, mechan 
arts, and Graben: and aims to be “an exponent of Weetaui 
thought and a means of communication of Western discoveries 
ies D b 
9. Medals of the Royal Society.—The Copley Medal has been 
given the present year to Prof. J. J. Sylvester (of the Johns Hop- 
kins University) ; Saas 7 to Ra Joseph Lister and Capt. 
Andrew Noble e Rumford Medal to Dr. William Huggins ; 
ie ney Davy Medal to Prof Charles Friedel of Pavia: 
A a a Treatise on Electricity and cp agp ; by J. 
E. ey Gor B.A. In ten volumes. New York, 1 (D. 
ore ‘& Co. ).—A notice of this work will appear in nee 
OBITUARY. 
Sir Bensamin C. fpinbivas Bart., F.R.S., late Professor of Chem- 
istry in the University of Oxford, died at Torquay on the 24th of 
November, in his sixty-fourth ye 
J. Cuartes Atmeipa, the uae of the Société Frangaise de 
Physi sate) nd its Secretary, the author of a Traité de Physique, 
my formerly Professor of Physics in the Lyceum of Henry IV, 
in November last. 
gira L CuastEs, the eminent French mathematician, te on 
the ath "of Novembe er, at bis home in Chartres. He was born 
November 15, 1793. 
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