160 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
lever to move across this line, and so records an undulating line 
on each plate. These lines enable the movements to be measured 
and their relation to the time, from which the amplitude, velocity 
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rth’s 
house but from a epatuke rigid frame; and the levers with their 
eis ye! are attached firmly to a woods post stuck in the 
ground and cut off a few inches above the surface 
The new knives is sin ow for effective work, as earth- 
quake shocks seem to occ apan almost daily. A letter ei 
Prof. Milne (June 12) patil: of “ over Hiy — the a 
months,” one night five, and haa r night t 
2, Science: A weekly Record of Madensife Progress ; mx pe 
MicuEts, editor. Vol. I, No. Ve nd 2, New York, July 3 and 10, 
1880. The aim of this new Journal is stated to be “to affor d 
scientific workers in the United States the opportunity of promptly 
recording the fruits of their researches an soegy s for commu- 
nication between one another,” etc. It aspires “ to take the 
position which ‘Nature’ so ably occupies in \ Engl and.” The 
could maintain the position oes in the prospectus, which 
it certainly has not done thus 
The author of the angekious ee about the “diaphote” will 
be amused to see a column in “ Science” cysts to the subject, 
in which the remarkable invention of the supposed “Dr. H. E. 
Licks” (= helix) is described in full detail. The original account, 
from which this quotation was made, is so clearly worked out in 
all the minor points and so ingeniously plausible that it is, perhaps, 
not strange that so many have been deceived. bec serves to take 
a ae erry the famous “ moon hoax” of) 
Sei 
This Journal promises to fill luable place as a medium of 
Serene be of scientific observation in the western part of the 
nited S 
OBITUARY, 
Count Louis Frangois gy Sido ir the well-known pupil 
and rigs sere os of hitbantk: Keeper of the Museum of Com 
rath at Cambridge, ak - died July 18, in the fifty- 
oe uate, A notice will be given in a subsequent 
Professor ees gen of Breslau, died June 23, 1880, at 
the age of sixty-eight years. 
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