Miscellaneous Intelligence. 421 



E. D. Cope: Pliocene Vertebrate Fauna of "Western North America. — North 

 American Proboscidia. 



A. Hall, Jr., The mass of Saturn. 



Ira Remsen : Nature and composition of double halides. — Rate of reduction of 

 nitro-compounds. — Connection between taste and chemical composition. 



T. C. Mendenhall : Recent researches in atmospheric electricity. 



A. A. Michelson : Measurement by light waves. 



A. A. Michelson and E. W. Morley: Feasibility of the establishment of a 

 light-wave as the ultimate standard of length. 



S. C. Chandler : The general laws pertaining to stellar variation. 



C. H. F. Peters: Review of the trivial names in Piazzi's star catalogue. 



J. S. Newberry: Cretaceous flora of North America. 



Cleveland Abbe : Terrestrial magnetism. 



Romyn Hitchcock : Spectrum photography in the ultra-violet. 



W. K. Brooks : North American Pelagidse. — -Development of Crustacea. 



C. D. Walcott: The plane of demarcation between the Cambrian and pre- 

 Cambrian rocks. 



D. P. Todd: Report of the American Eclipse Expedition to Japan, 1887. 



4. Proceedings of the U. S. National Museum. Vol. X, 1887. 

 Published under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution. 

 772 pp. 8vo, with 39 plates. — This volume is made up of orig- 

 inal contributions to Zoology and Botany, partly paleontological, 

 and mostly describing new species. The chief contributors are 

 R. Ridgway, L. Stejneger, J. B. Smith, R. Rathbun, J. McNeill, 

 T. H. Bean, C. II. Bollmann, C. H. Gilbert, E. D. Cope, D. S. 

 Jordan, G. N. Lawrence, L. Lesquereux, T. Gill, C. H. Eigen- 

 mann, F. W. True, R. E. Call, E. Linton, C. H. Townsend, O. P. 

 Hay, and E. G. Hughes. It contains also an account of an Ar- 

 kansas meteorite, by S. F. Kunz, with a plate. 



5. Examination of Water for sanitary and technical pur- 

 poses, by Dr. H. Lefpman and Wm, Beam. 106 pp. 12mo. 1889. 

 Philadelphia (Blakiston, Son & Co.). — This little volume gives 

 the chemical methods for testing mineral and other waters es- 

 j>ecially with reference to those ingredients that have a sanitary 

 bearing, and also other facts and information on the subject. 



The Geological Record for 1880-1884 inclusive. A list of publications on Geol- 

 ogy, Mineralogy and Palaeontology published during those years, together with 

 certain references omitted from previous volumes; edited by Wm. Topley, 

 F.R.S., F.G.S., and Charles Da vies Sherborn, F.G.S. Vol. 1. Stratigraphical 

 and Descriptive Geology. 544 pp. 8vo. London, 1888 (Taylor & Francis). — A 

 work of great value to students in Geology, although only a catalogue. The six 

 preceding volumes covered the years 1874 to 1879 inclusive, and were by Mr. W. 

 Whitaker, excepting that for 1878, which was by Whitaker and W. H. Dalton. 

 Price of each, 16s., excepting for that for 1874, 15s. 



Bulletin from the Laboratories of Natural History of the State University of 

 Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, vol. i, No. 1, contains valuable geological papers by Prof. 

 S. Calvin; on the Saprophytic Fungi of Eastern Iowa by T. H. McBride; and on 

 the Mollusks of eastern Iowa by B. Shimek, besides other papers. 



University Studies, published by the University of Nebraska, at Lincoln. This 

 quarterly publication, No. 2 of which was published in October, 1888, contains, 

 besides literary and linguistic papers, a memoir on the conversion of some of the 

 homologues of benzol-phenol into primary and secondary amines, by Rachel Lloyd. 



Preliminary Report of the Dakota School of Mines upon the Geology of the 

 Black Hills. 171 pp. 8vo. Rapid City, 1888. 



A Bibliography of Indian Geology : compiled by R. D. Oldham, Deputy Super- 

 intendent Geol. Survey of India. 145 pp. roy. 8vo. Calcutta, 1888. 



