BS gal Miscellaneous Intelligence. : a 
four sections. I, French Literature, History and allied subjects; 
II, English Literature, History and allied subjects; III, Mathe 
matical, Physical and Chemical sciences; IV, Ge ological ae 
Biological sciences, is first volume contains 16 papers in 
section I, 9 in section II, 24 in section IIT and 24 in section YW, 
showing great scientific activity in the academy during its first 
two years. Some of the papers have already been noticed in this 
serait : 
Royal Society of New South Wales, vol. xvi, 1882.—Mr. A. : 
Baa oe een in this volume the Deniliquin or Baratta 
meteorite. H. Tenison-Woods is disposed to refer the extensive 
sandstone formation, of eastern Australia, named the Ha wkesbury 
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, 1849) t 
ee author a Mesozoic fossils 
from Palmer River, Queensland. Mr. H. C. Russell has a paper 
on eer alas illustrated by maps. 
s Reports on Cotton, E. W. Hilgard, Special Agent in charge: 
a Gotaeal Discussion of the Cotton Production in the United States, by E. W. 
(2) On the gate Production and Agricultural features of Mississippi and Lou- 
isiana, by E. W 
ae, aden int Agricultural features of California, with a Somber: I he 
f Cotton production in ee oo also Remarks 
Uutdare =r New ‘akaaiog Utah, Arizona and Mexico, by 'Dr. E. W. Hilgard. 
_ (4) On the Cotton Production and Agricultu a features of Georgia, Texas, A 
— 2 the Indian Territory, by Dr. R. H. Lot sidan Special Census some a 
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by Dr. Figen A A. Smith, Special Census Agent. 
Geological and “Mineral Studies in Nuevo Leon “8g Coahuila; by Dr. Persifor 
Frazer. 7836 Pp. 8vo, with maps. Philadelphia, 18 a 
ypes of A <a ee by aS for Laboratory se in wesigs districts; by. 
“Herrick, Part I, A oda. 8vo, Mi ss gg is, a 
hop 4 pp. 8vo, 
pe Devonian Phyllopod Crustaceans. bcifenaée J. M. Clarke (of i 
Wietharspten but for the year past in Germany) oan described and figured, in the : 
ahrb. f. Min., i, 1884, three species of ore vis and one of Entomis, from 
Bicken, and one of Dithyroc aris from Wildung < 
er sus der Végel und Dinosaurier, ae ‘morphotogische Boon von Dr. 
Georg Baur, aus Miinchen. 44 pp. 8vo, wit o plat n im ant paper. 
Niagara fossils; by J. r with, fihsen Latte including 
Graptolit and Stromatoporide of Upper Silurian, and fifteen new sp' 
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May, 1884. Exinipd for the Museum; also Proc. St. Louis Acad. 
Sci., ol pads “arf ng age Loui 
the perme ‘rocks of ~America compared with that in the 
Pre-Canbrian pocke of Europe, by Henry Hicks, F.G.S. Proc. Geologists’ Assoc, " 
vo no. 5, me 
Geology and M ineral Resources of the James Reis Valley, Va.; by J J, Tei 
Campbell, Professor Geol. and Min., Lexington, Va pp. 8vo, with a map and 
effec Sections. The work is a contribution e penne as well as economic = 
geology. 
OBITUARY, 
FERDINAND von Hocusterrer, the able geologist of Vienna, 
who was connected with the Austrian expedition around the 
world of the Novara, from 1857 to 1860, died on the 18th of July, 
in his fifty-sixth year. 
