34:2 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



Edward Ortox : Municipal corporations and natural gas supply. 

 James H. Kellogg: Utilization of surplus labor. 



Mary Henman Abel and Ellen H. Richards: Hygienic advantage of the 

 sterilization of milk and its best methods. 

 Wm. H. Hale: Ethics of strikes. 

 Geo. W. Hollet: Floods of the Mississippi and how to prevent them. 



2. British Association at Leeds. — The meeting at Leeds com- 

 menced its sessions on the 3d of September. The inaugural ad- 

 dress of the President, Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, treated of 

 the practical achievements of physical science during the past 32 

 years — the interval since a former meeting at Leeds. 



The address of the President of the Association and those of 

 the Vice-Presidents, together with full reports of the papers pre- 

 sented at the meeting, will be found in the successive numbers of 

 Nature, commencing with that for September 4. This excellent 

 weekly Journal of Science should be in the hands of all interested 

 in science and its progress. Its semi-annual volumes begin on 

 May 1 and Nov. 1. 



3. An American Geological Maihoay Guide, giving the geo- 

 logical formation at every railway station, with altitudes above 

 ruean tide-water, notes on interesting places on the routes, and a 

 description of each of the formations ; by James Macfarlane. 

 Second edition, revised and enlarged, edited by James R. Mac- 

 farlane. 426 pp. New York, 1890 (D. Appleton & Co.).— This 

 new edition of Dr. Macfarlane's excellent hand-book for geologists 

 and tourists, on which he was working before his death in 1885, 

 has been edited by his son with much care, producing a valuable 

 thesaurus and compendium of information concerning the geology, 

 the mineral deposits, and the best localities for collecting fossils 

 and examining geological sections in Canada, the United States 

 and Mexico. The scope of the book is well seen from the title 

 page, as above quoted. Its reliability is guaranteed by the names 

 of the geologists of the several State, United States, and Cana- 

 dian geological surveys, who have supplied full notes of their 

 respective fields of investigation. w. u. 



4. Royal Society of JV. S. Wales. — Vol. xxiii, Part 2, of the 

 Journal and Proceedings contain, covering 160 pages, a list of 

 the marine and freshwater Invertebrate fauna of Port Jackson 

 and the neighborhood, by I. Whitelegge ; on the occurrence of 

 platinum in a feldspathic vein in the Broken Hill district ; on the 

 Australian Aborigines, and other papers. 



5. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, no. 741 : Index to 

 the Literature of Thermodynamics, by A. Tuckerman. 240 pp. 

 8vo. 1890. 



6. Verzeichniss der Schriften ilber Zoologie von Dr. 0. Taschen- 

 berg, of Halle. — The eighth " Lieferung," signatures 281-320, of 

 this important zoological bibliography has been issued by W. 

 Engelmann. It finishes the Hymenoptera and commences the 

 Coleoptera. 



