476 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



C. H. F. Peters : Remarks on the expression of the Law of Attraction in the 

 Stellar Systems. • 



A. Hall : Note on the Satellite ofNeptune. 

 G-. K. Gilbert: The Problem of Soaring Birds. 

 J. W. Powell : The Laws of Corrasion. 



3. Note to Article VIII, in this volume, by the Author. — In 

 mentioning the dredging at Sandwich, in the July number of 

 this Journal (p. 56), I did not expect to give the subject further 

 attention. I have since become satisfied, after visits to the place 

 named and extended inquiry, that no Tertiary beds have been 

 opened there. The supposed " find " has proved a disappoint- 

 ment. There is too little information about it available to justify 

 attaching any importance to it. The borings made along the 

 line of the proposed canal give no reason to expect that fossil ifer- 

 ous deposits will be touched hereafter in the progress of the 

 work. w. w. DODGE. 



4. Tuckerman Memorial Library. — The large collection of books 

 and papers relating to Lichens, made by the late Prof. Edward 

 Tuckerman, has been presented by Mrs. Tuckerman, in accord- 

 ance with his own wish, to Amherst College Library. It is de- 

 sired to make this "Tuckerman Memorial Library" as complete 

 as possible and the librarian, Mr. William I. Fletcher, invites 

 contributions in money or in material to this end. The money 

 contributed will be kept as a fund of which only the income 

 will be employed in making additions to the collection, or in 

 making repairs to the binding. The sum of $1000 would proba- 

 bly suffice as such a fund. 



A Manual of the Vertebrate Animals of the Northern United States, by David 

 Starr Jordan, President of the University of Indiana, 5th edit., entirely rewritten 

 and much enlarged, 376 pp.. 12mo, Chicago. 1888. (A. McClurg & Co.) In this 

 new edition of the Manual all marine species are included; the geographical 

 limits have been extended so as to include Canada, Minnesota. Iowa and Missouri; 

 and the arrangement has been changed, and other improvements introduced. 



Catalogue of Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia of the British Museum. Part I, 

 containing the Orders Ornithosauria, Crocodilia. Dinosauria, Squamata, Rhyncho- 

 cephalia and Proterosauria, by Richard Lyddeker, B.A., F.G.S., eic. 310 pp. 8vo. 

 London, 1888. 



Cincinnati Observatory. Zone Catalogue of 4050 stars for the epoch of 1885, 

 by J. G-. Porter, astronomer. Cincinnati, 1887. 



Old and New Astronomy, by R. A. Proctor. (Longmans, Green & Co., London 

 and New York.) 



Transactions of the American Philosopical Society, Vol. XVI, Part II, contains 

 papers by E. D. Cope on the intercentrum of terrestrial vertebrata, systematic 

 catalogue of the Permian vertebr .ta of N. America, Synopsis of the Vertebrate 

 Fauna of the Puerco series, the shoulder, girdle and extremities of Eryops, and by 

 H. C. DeS. Abbot, on a chemical study of Yucca anguHtifolia. 



Centennial volume of the Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences, Vol. XI, Part VI, No. vii. 200 pp. 4to. Occupied with a Memoir of 

 Daniel Treadwell by Morrill Wyman, M.D. 



Die Geoideformationen der Eiszeit. von Erich von Drygalski, Dr. Phil. (Ges. d. 

 Erdk. Berlin, xxii, 3, 4,) Berlin, 1887. 



Annotated Catalogue of the species of Porites and Synarasa in the U. S. 

 Natioual Museum, with figures, and a description of a new species, by Richard 

 Rathbun, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1887. 



