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6. Miscellaneous, 
- H. Duptey: Transportation expenses and their reduction. 
Gro. M. STERNBERG: Microscopical investigations of the Havana Yellow Fever 
Commission. 
: DE: The first decade of the U.S. Fish Commission. Its plan of 
work and accomplished results , scientific and economical. 
“7 
E. B Euiotr: The credit of the United States Government. 
Wm. McMurrrie: On the defi ied . meteorological work in data of value to 
agriculture and oe for prongs ng t 
. CAPEN: Explanation of rae for 24 hours London and Boston time, 
showing ~ method - obtaining rey for weather prediction. 
- H. DupLey: Railroad t 
es Fi bobe: Contiibatieie of aytoultns to science. 
4. Report of the ab tipi oe of the United States Coast 
Survey, showing the progress of the work for the fiscal year end- 
Ing with June, 1876. Pas se 4to, with 24 maps. Washington, 
1879.—Among the various memoirs inserted as appendices to this 
ing 
metic, by EIRCE ; Methods of rene tidal observations 
with illustrations, by R. S. Avery; Report on the physical sur- 
at initial stations in America and arg ; Comparison of the 
methods of determining heights by leveling, vertical angles, and 
barometer, by G. Davipson and C. A. Scuorr; Observations on 
atmospheric refraction, and hypsometrie ih poe based on thermo- 
dynamic princip es, by A. ScHotTr; an chart of the mag- 
netic declination in the United States, by C. % anon There is 
also a list of publications relating to the deep sea investigations 
carried on in the vicinity of the coast of the United States under 
ve Sve of the Coast Survey, nv commences with obser- 
vations a Count Pourtalés in the 
5 a and eg results of i its alteration agi Branch- 
ville nate by G. J. Brusu and E. 8. Dana: note to the article 
on p. 2 57.—The sections “yepreaented in figs. 15 ia 16 (p. 264), 
ee 17 and 18 (p. 265), and 19 (p. 270), are magnified 300 diam- 
OBITUARY. 
Cuartes Toomas Jackson, early eminent as a chemist, miner- 
alogist, geological explorer and teacher, and long identified with 
the science of Boston, died on the 29th of August last, at Sum- 
merville, Mass. Dr. Jackson was born in Plymouth, Mass, June 
arv niv 
21,1805. While yet a student of medicine in ar ersity, 
Jackson pase’ in connection with the late Francis Alger, o 
Bosto n eological and mineralogical map of Nova Scotia, 
which was published in the Memoirs of the American Academy 
oston. He subsequently studied science in Paris, under the 
