416 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
observations; these are to appear in other volumes. The work 
seems to bé very complete, and will be invaluable to astronomers. 
4, M Powe.t has been appointed Director of the 
Sera y Survey of the National Domain in place of Clarence 
King resigned. is various reports on the Rocky Mountain 
region, ss ea she and economical, show that he is 
well fitted for the positio 
5. Report of the Siertitendeit of the United States Coast 
Survey, showing the progress of the work for the seca year ending 
with June, 1877, 192 pp., with 25 maps. Among the Appendices 
are the foll owing: Notes concerning alleged’ changes in the rela- 
tive elevations of land and of sea, by Henry Mrrenert; Descrip- 
tion of an apparatus devised for “observing currents in connection 
with the physical survey of the Mississippi River, by H. L. Mar- 
inDIN; Description of an optical densimeter for ocean water, by 
clamp for the ges of theodolites and meridian instruments, 
Davinson ; Observations of the density of the waters of 
Chesapeake Bay and its principal estuaries, by oi CoLuiys ; 
A quincuncial projection of the sphere, by C. 8! Per 
sorbilag in Practical oe Vol. I, Elementary Exercises, by A. S. 
Vernon Harcourt and H. G: Madan. Third ‘edition, revised by H. G. Madan. 
480 = 8vo. ee 1880 at Press). 
A Memorial of Jo oseph Henry. 528 pp. st oagyee Pio 1880. Contents: nes 
duction, Proceedings in Congress relative to a public commemoration; Part I, 
Obsequies of Joseph Henry, pp. 7-27; Part t IL. Mem orial services at the Capitol, 
pp. ee -121; Part III, Memorial Proceedings of Societies pp. 125-475; Appendix. 
A Lecture on the deo of the work of completion of the new improved bed 
of the Danube at Vienna, and the lessons Spry thereby nee oh r with a descrip- 
tion of the catastrophe produce . a the B Borge o of 1 by Sir Gustave Wex. 
33 pp., with five sheets of draw (Ex from ae eed al of the Society of 
Austrian Engineers and on rehitects 5 Ro 3, 7880), Translated by Major G. Weitzel, 
U.S.A. Washington, 
Meteorological p eentient ie ‘for the use of the Coast Pilot. Part II, On eer as 
Waterspouts and Tornadoes by William Ferrel. 95 pp. 4to, sat 6 plates. (U.S. 
Coast and Geodetic Survey, Carlile P. Patterson, i opr ant). Methods and 
Results. Appendix No. 10 of Coast Survey Report for 
Report of the Director of the Detroit Observatory of the Tniversity of Michi = 
to the Board of Regents for the a beginning Oct. 1, 1879 and ending Jan. 
1881 20 pp. 8vo. Ann Arbor, 1 
Lnnual Report upon vee Surveys, of N sieves and Northwestern Lakes 
charge of Gen. C. B. Comstock, U. S. A., bein mrs aie a of the Annual Epi 
of the Chief of ge gee 1880. 93 pp. 8vo, with a map and several plates. 
Annual Report of the $ yanventean ay of the Selewstane National Park to the 
Secretary of the eres for the year — 64 pp. 8vo. Washington, 
Notes on North American Microgasters with descriptions of a new atis by 
C. V. Ril i Ph.D., 20 pe. Wrets the Mraciateionhe of the Academy of Sciences of 
St. Louis, vol. i y, No. 
Parasites of the ersaiten by Joseph Leidy, M.D, 25 pp. with two plates. 
From the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phileielphia, iy viii. 
OBITUARY. 
AcuitLeE Dertxssz, Inspector General of Mines in France 
and well known for his able researches in geology and mineralogy, 
died at Paris near the close of March. 
