432 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
deepening of its outflow channel so as to drain it being the two 
causes at work to destroy these bodies of water. Attention is 
called to the fact that within the last century 100 lakes have 
disappeared in Tyrol. With the retreat of the glaciers the upper 
lake zone also retreats to a continually higher level, until a limit 
is reached as determined by the precipitous character of the 
mountains. The rise in altitude ot the present lake-zone from 
pole to equator is connected with the fact that glaciation has been 
more marked in higher latitudes. The author discusses in detail 
the distribution of the lakes and their character in the Eastern 
Alps, and then gives a tabulated list of them arranged according 
to their vertical distribution at intervals of 100 meters. This 
brings out clearly the concentration of these lakes at certain 
levels, and this is made still more striking in a graphical chart. 
The following table gives some of the facts in condensed form : 
3000 3000-2500 2500-2000 2000-1500 1500-1000 1000-500 500-0 
Limestone Alps—North, 0 2 36 84 71 122 5 
Schist Alps—North, 0 6 46 27 2 f 0 
Gueiss Alps—Cent. chain, 1 372 T71 312 38 21 1 
Limestone Alps—South, 0 8 100 71 41 28 21 
2. American Association.—It has been decided to hold the 
meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of 
Science, for this year at New York, commencing on August 10th. 
3. Agriculture in some of its relations with Chemistry ; by F. 
H. Storer, §.B., A.M., Prof. Agric. Chem. Harvard Univ. 2 vols. 
8vo. New York, 1887. (Charles Scribner’s Sons).—A notice of 
this excellent work by the able chemist of the Harvard Agricul- 
tural School is deferred to another number. 
4, National Academy of Sciences.—The following papers were 
entered to be read at the meeting held at Washington, April 
VODs 
T. SteRRY Hunt: On Chemical Integration. 
C. E. Dutton and H. HAYDEN: Results of the Investigation of the Charleston 
Earthquake. 
JOSEPH LECONTE: On some Phenomena of Binocular Vision. 
W.G. Farrow: The Vegetation of the Hot Springs of the Yellowstone Park. 
EK. D. Cope: On the Fore Limb and Shoulder Girdle of Eryops, and on the 
Vertebrates of the Triassic. 
Kxi1as Loomis: Rainless character of the Sahara. 
S. P. Lanauey: The Color of the Sun; anew Map of the Spectrum. 
IRA REMSEN: Chemical Constitution and Taste; On a New Class of Compounds 
analogous to the Phthaleins; On the Decomposition of Diazo Compounds by 
Alcohol. 
A.G. BELL: On the Ancestry of the Deaf; On the Notation of Kinship. 
J. W. Grpss: On the Determination of Orbits of Planets and Comets. 
G. H. Winirams: On the Serpentine of Syracuse, New York. 
A. W. GREELY: On the Barometric Oscillation—-Diurnal and Annual. 
W. H. Dati: On Floridian Geology. 
Cc. D. Watcott: On the Taconic System of Emmons. 
R. D. Irvine: Is there a Huronian Group ? 
B. G. WiupER: On the Brain of the Ceratodus, with Remarks on the General 
Morphology of the Vertebrate Brain. 
THEODORE GILL: Outline of the Ichthyological System. 
A. W. Wricat: The effect of Magnetization on the Electrical Resistance of 
Metals. 
