41 2 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



of the country : Toronto, Canada, the State University of Indi- 

 ana, Yale College in Connecticut, Bryn Mawr College in Penn- 

 sylvania, besides Milwaukee, showing thus its continental sympa- 

 thies, purpose and demands. Its papers are as follows : (1) 

 Sphyranura Osleri, a contribution to American Helminthology by 

 R. R. Wright and A. B. Macallum, of Toronto ; (2) De- 

 velopment of the compound eyes of Crangon, by Dr. J. S. Kings- 

 let, of Indiana ; (3 and 7) Eyes of Molluscs and Arthropods, 

 and Development of the eyes of Yespa, with observations on 

 the ocelli of some insects, by Dr. Wm. Patten, of Milwaukee ; 

 (4) Phylogenetic arrangement of the Sauropsida, by Dr. G. 

 Battr, Yale College Mus.; (5) Contribution to the history of the 

 Germ-layers in Clepsine, by C. O. Whitman, of Milwaukee; 

 (6) The Germ-bands of Lumbricus, by Prof. E. B. Wilson, of 

 Bryn Mawr, Pa. 



The second number will probably be issued in November. 



6. Bibliotheca Zoologica II : Verzeichniss der Schriften liber 

 Zoologie welche in den periodischen Werken enthalten und vom 

 Jahre 1861-1880 selbstandig erschienen sind, etc., bearbeitet von 

 Dr. O. Taschenberg. Lieferung III, pp. 641-960. Leipzig, 

 1887 (Wm. Engelmann). — The nature and scope of this great 

 catalogue of zoological works have been explained in this Journal 

 (vol. xxxiii, 245) in connection with a notice of parts 1 and 2 of 

 the first volume. The part now issued concludes volume I, and 

 continues the exhaustive method before noted. It is a work 

 which should be at the hand of every one laboring in the various 

 subjects which it embraces. 



IY. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. JVystrom''s Pocket Booh of Mechanics and Engineering. 

 19th edition, revised and corrected by W. D. Marks. 670 pp. 

 Philadelphia, 1887 (J. B. Lippincott Company). — This volume is 

 truly remarkable for the variety and extent of the information it 

 contains. No one who has learned by experience the value of 

 having such an assistant at hand will be willing to be without it. 

 The present edition has had the benefit of revision by Professor 

 Marks which commends it to a still wider circle of readers. 



2. Sixth Annual Report of the U.S. Geological Survey, by J. W. 

 Powell, Director, 1884-85. — Of the papers published in this re- 

 port, Mount Taylor and Zufii Plateau, by Capt. C. E. Dutton, has 

 teen already noticed in this Journal. The others are " Preliminary 

 papers on the driftless area of the Upper Mississippi valey, by T. 

 C. Chamberlin and R. D. Salisbury, pp. 199 to 352; Preliminary 

 report on Sea-coast Swamps of the Eastern United States, by N. 

 S. Shaler, pp. 359 to 398, and Synopsis of the Flora of the Lara- 

 mie Group, by Lester F. Ward, pp. 399 to 558, illustrated by 65 

 double plates representing fossil leaves. 



3. Dr. Wolcott Gibbs has resigned the Rumford Professor- 

 ship in Harvard University, and will continue his scientific work 

 at Newport, R. I. 



