Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



149 



tion to return to Paris and to his old lodgings in the Rue du Mont Tha- 

 bor, — only, however, in order to deliver to the Museum his collections 

 and manuscripts, and then to return forever to his plantation in Uruguay. 

 M. de Bonpland is now eighty-three years of age. 



7. A Table showing the times of opening and closing of the Mississippi 

 River, the first and last arrival and departure of boats, the number of 

 arrivals, &c, for the years 1837 to 1855, inclusive; by T. S. Parvin, 

 Muscatine, Iowa. 





iver opened. 



lear of ice. 



unning ice. 



iver closed. 



o. days closed. 



irst steamb't. 



ast steamboat. 



o. of steam- 

 boats. 



o. of different 

 steamboats. 





m 



O 



PS 



Ph 













iaO 1 







Dec. 7. 



Jan. 30, 1838 







Dec. 9. 







1838 



Mar. 24. 



Mar. 30. 



Nov. 10. 



Dec. 4, 

 Jan. 15,1840 



53 



Mar. 30. 



Nov. 7. 







1839 



Feb. 20. 



Mar. 8. 



Nov. 24. 



78 



Mar. 11. 



Dec. 11. 



321 



38 



1840 



Feb. 29. 



Mar. 1. 



Nov. 22. 



Dec. 31. 



45 



Mar. 3. 



Nov. 25. 



339 



35 



1841 



Mar. 1. 



Mar. 13. 



Nov. 27. 



Jan. 3, 1842 



60 



Mar. 15. 



Dec. 20. 



314 



29 



1842 



Feb. 28. 



Mar. 3. 



Nov. 18. 



Nov. 26. 



56 



Mar. 5 



Nov. 23. 



420 



39 



1843 



Apr. 8. 



Apr. 16. 



Nov. 30. 



Jan. 23, 1844 



133 



Apr. 12. 



Nov. 27. 



449 



36 



1844 



Feb. 23. 



Feb. 27. 



Nov. 24. 



Dec. 27. 



31 



Feb. 29. 



Dec. 8. 



610 



34 



1845 



Feb. 18. 



Feb. 22. 



Nov. 26. 



Dec. 1. 



52 



Feb. 25. 



Nov. 26. 



630 



37 



1846 



Jan. 29. 



Feb. 8. 



Nov. 26. 



Jan. 6, 1847 



72 



Feb. 8. 



Dec. 2. 



620 



33 



1847 



Mar. 19. 



Mar. 23. 



Nov. 26. 



Dec. 15. 



62 



Mar. 25. 



Nov. 27. 



605 





1848 



Feb. 16. 



Mar. 1. 



Nov. 9. 



Dec. 15. 



60 



Feb. 23. 



Dec. 3. 



580 to Oct. 





1849 



Feb. 13. 



Feb. 17. 



Dec. 6. 



Dec. 17. 



60 



Feb. 14. 



Dec. 6. 



649 





1850 



Feb. 19. 



Feb. 23. 



Dec. 3 



Jan. 30,1851 



63 



Feb. 27. 



Dec. 2. 







1851 



Feb. 21. 



Mar. 9 



Dec. 13. 



Dec. 16. 



22 



Feb. 26. 



Dec. 12. 



672 





1852 



Feb. 24. 



Mar. 8. 



Nov. 19. 



Dec. 18. 



70 



Mar. 5 



Dec. 13. 



714 





1853 



Feb. 25. 



Mar. 3. 



Dec. 2. 



Dec. 31. 



69 



Mar. 7 



Dec. 11. 



758 





1854 



Mar. 1. 



Mar. 5. 



Dee. 5. 



Jan. 22, 1855 



60 



Mar. 5 



Jan. 19, 1855 



1064 





1855 



Mar. 7. 



Mar. 30. 



Dec. 10. 



Dec. 26. 



49 



Mar. 14 



Dec. 15. 



1359 





8. Chemical Technology or Chemistry in its applications to arts and 

 manufactures ; by Dr. Edmund Ronalds and Dr. Thomas Richardson ; 

 with which is incorporated Dr. Knapp's " Technology" illustrated with 

 four hundred and thirty-three engravings on wood and two colored and 

 four plain plates. 2d Ed., vol. i ; in two parts containing Fuel and its 

 Applications. H. Bailliere: London and New York, 1855. — We have 

 before taken pleasure in calling the attention of our readers to the Library 

 of Illustrated Standard Scientific works of M. Bailliere. This edition of 

 Drs. Ronald's and Richardson's work on Fuel and its applications is in 

 fact a new book. The general order of the subjects discussed is un- 

 changed ; but the quantity of new matter introduced and the important 

 public interest attached to the discussion of various questions, (especially 

 those connected with the most economical applications of fuel, and the 

 production by the destructive distillation of bituminous coal, shales and 

 other fossil fuels of valuable illuminating and lubricating oils,) will give 

 this edition of the Chemical Technology a wide circulation. With the 

 design of giving great fulness to all American facts on these subjects it 

 is to be regretted that the authors had not possessed themselves of the 

 most recent sources of information. Thus in their statistics of the coal 

 trade and distribution in the United States, the first edition of Taylor ap- 

 pears to have been their authority, and no reference is made to the Re- 

 ports of Sir Chas. Lyell and Prof. Wilson to Parliament on the results of 

 the Royal Commission sent to the United States in 1853, from which 

 fresh facts of much importance could have been gleaned In spite how- 



