Miscellaneous Intelligence. 499 



4. Bulletin of the Scientific Laboratories of Denison Univer- 

 sity. Edited by W. G. Tight, M. S. Vol. V. pp. 94. Gran- 

 ville, O., June, 1890. — This volume includes besides a series of 

 Laboratory notes, papers by W. F. Cooper on the Waverly 

 Group, with a tabulated list of fossils known to occur in the 

 Waverly of Ohio, and by C. L. Herrick and W. G. Tight on the 

 central nervous system of rodents ; the last paper is illustrated 

 by 19 plates. 



5. Royal Society of Canada. Memoirs for the year 1889, 

 Tome VII. — Contains in its geological and natural history sec- 

 tion, papers by L. W. Bailey, on New Brunswick geology, with 

 his Presidential Address; by Sir J. Wm. Dawson, on the sponges 

 of Little Metis and on some Mackenzie River fossil plants ; J. F. 

 Whiteaves, on Lower Silurian fossils of Manitoba ; A. H. MacKay, 

 on freshwater sponges of Canada and Newfoundland ; A. P. 

 Coleman, geography and geology of the big bend of the Columbia ; 

 E. J. Chapman, on a new classification of trilobites, as influenced 

 by stratigraphical relations ; G. F. Matthew, Cambrian organ- 

 isms in Acadia ; J. W. Spencer, the Iroquois Beach ; G. C. 

 Hoffmann, hygroscopicity of Canadian fossil fuels. 



6. OstwalcVs Klassiker cler Exahten Wissenschaften, Leipzig, 

 1890 (Wm. Engelmann.). — Recent issues of this valuable series 

 include the following : 



No. 13. Vier Abhandlungen tiber die Elektricitat und den 

 Magnetismus von Coulomb. (1785-1786). 



No. 14. Die vier Gauss'schen Beweise fur die Zerlegung 

 ganzer Algebraischer Functionen in reelle Factoren ersten oder 

 zweiten Grades. (1799-1849). 



Nos. 15, 16. Chemise-he Untersuchungen liber die Vegetation 

 von Theod. de Saussure (1804). 



Dictionary of the Language of the Micmac Indians, pp. 286, by Rev. S. T. 

 Rand, Halifax, N. S. This volume, published by the Canadian government, is an 

 important contribution to philology. It is one of several important works in this 

 field by the late Dr. Rand (1810-1889), who was long a missionary among the 

 Micmac Indians, an aboriginal tribe of the Algonquin family inhabiting the 

 Maritime Provinces of the Dominion of Canada. 



Index to the Literature of Thermodynamics, pp. 238, by Alfred Tuckerman, 

 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1890. (Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collec- 

 tions, No. 741). 



Investigations of the New England Meteorological Society for the year 1889. 

 reprinted from the Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College, 

 Edward C. Pickering, director. Vol. xxi, Part II, pp. 107-273. Cambridge, 1890. 



Proceedings of the United States National Museum, pp 686. Vol. 12, 1889. 

 Washington, 1890. 



A Revision of the South American Nematognathi or Cat fishes, 508 pp., by 

 Carl H Eigenmann and Rosa S. Eigenmann. Also — 



Land Birds of the Pacific District, 274 pp., by Lyman Belding, San Francisco, 

 1890. — These valuable memoirs form Parts I and II of the Occasional Papers of 

 the California Academy of Sciences. 



