VIII. WORKS RECEIVED.

PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES.

Jahresbericht über die Fortschritte der Chemie; herausgegeben von HERMANN KOPP and HRINRICH WILL. Für 1861.

Oversigt over det kongelige danske videnskabernes Selskabs Forhandlinger og dets Medlemmers Arbeider i Aaret 1861.

Jahrbücher des Vereins für Naturkunde im Herzogthum Nassau. Sechszentes Heft. Wiesbaden: 1861.

Verhandlungen der naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel. Dritter Theil. Viertes oder Schluss-heft. Basel: 1863.

Zeitschrift der Deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft. XIV. Band. 2. Heft. 1862. Berlin: 1862.

Monatsberichte der königlichen Preufs. Akademie der Wissenchaften zu Berlin. Aus dem Jahre 1862. Mit 11 Tafeln. Berlin: 1863.

Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, publié sous la Redaction du Docteur RENARD. Année 1862. Nos. II, III, IV. Moscow: 1862.

Verslagen en Mededeelingen der koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen. Afdeeling Naturkunde. 3d and 4th parts. Amsterdam: 1862.

Verslagen en Mededeelingen der koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen. Afdeeling Letterkunde. 6th Deel. Amsterdam: 1862.

Jaarboek van de Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen. Gevestigd te Amsterdam, voor 1861. Amsterdam.

Bulletins de L'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique. 31me Année, 2me Sér., T. XIII, XIV. 1862. Bruxelles.

Mémoires Couronnés et autres Mémoires, publiés par l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique. Collection in-8°.-T. XIII, XIV. Bruxelles : 1862.

Jahrbuch der kaiserlich-königlichen geologischen Reichsanstalt. 1861 und 1862. XII. Band. Nro. 3, 4. The same, 1863. XIII. Band. Nro. 1, 2.

REPORTS.

Report of the Commissioners upon the Troy and Greenfield Railroad, and Hoosac Tunnel. February 28, 1863. Boston: Wright & Potter, State Printers, No. 4 Spring Lane. 1863.

Seventy-Fifth Annual Report of the Regents of the University of the State of New York. Albany: 1862.

Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the year 1862. Washington: 1863.

Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the year 1861. Agriculture. Washington: 1862.

Meteorological Observations made at Providence, R. I., extending over a period of twenty-eight years and a half, from December, 1831, to May, 1860. By ALEXIS CASWELL, Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Washington City: Published by the Smithsonian Instiution, in the Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. October, 1860. New York: D. Appleton & Co.

Discussion of the Magnetic and Meteorological Observations made at the Girard College Observatory, Philadelphia, in 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844, and 1845. Second Section, comprising Parts IV, V, and VI. Horizontal Force. By A. D. Bache. Published by the Smithsonian Institution. November, 1862. New York: D. Appleton & Co.

Report upon the determination of the Longitude of America and Europe from the Solar Eclipse of July 28, 1851. By Professor Benjamin Peirce, LL.D., &c. &c. New Discussion of the Distribution of the Magnetic Declination on the Coast of the Gulf of Mexico, with a Chart of the Isogonic Curves for 1860. By Assistant CHARLES A. SCHOTT.

Standard Places of Fundamental Stars. U. S. Coast Survey.

Sur la Marche annuelle du Thermomètre et du Baromètre en Neêrlande et en divers lieux de L'Europe, déduite d'observations simultanées de 1849 à 1859.

Par C. H. D. BUYS BALLOT. Publiées par L'Académie Royale des Sciences à Amsterdam. Amsterdam: 1861.

Abstracts of Magnetical Observations made at the Magnetical Observatory, Toronto, Canada West, during the years 1856 to 1862, inclusive, and during parts of the years 1853, 1854, and 1855. Toronto: 1863.

Reduction of the Observations of the Deep-Sunk Thermometers at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from 1846 to 1859. By Prof. J. D. EVERETT, of King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia. Extracted from the Greenwich Observations, 1860. Results of Meteorological Observations for Twenty Years, for Hobart Town; made at the Royal Observatory, Ross Bank, from January, 1841, to December, 1854. and at the Private Observatory, from January, 1855, to December, 1860, inclusive. Tasmania. Hobart Town: 1861.

Meteorologische Beobachtungen. Aufgezeichnet auf Christiania's Observatorium. Lieferung I and II. 1837-1847. Christiania: 1862.

Meteorologische Waarnemingen in Nederland en Zijne Bezittingen, en Afwijkingen van Temperatuur en Barometerstand op vele Plaatsen in Europa. Uitgegeven door het koninklijk nederlandsch meteorologisch Institnut. 1861. The same, 1862. Utrecht Kemink en Zoon. 1862.

On the Rainfall and Evaporation in Dublin, in the year 1860. By the Rev. SAMUEL HAUGHTON, M.D., F.R.S., Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. Dublin:

1862.

On the Direction and Force of the Wind at Leopold Harbour. By the same. Dublin: 1863.

GEOGRAPHY.

Reise der oesterreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859, unter den Befehlen des Com. B. VON WULLERSTORF-URBAIR. Nautischphysicalischer Theil, I. Abtheilung. Geographische Ortsbestimmungen und Fluthbeobachtungen. Wien: 1862.

Société de Géographie de Genève. Mémoires et Bulletin. Tome III.-1re Liv. raison. Genève : 1862.

Über die Ursachen der in den Jahren 1850 bis 1857 stattgefundenen Erd-erschütterungen und die Beziehungen derselben zu den Vulkanen und zur Atmosphäre: von Dr. KARL EMIL KLUGE, Lehrer an der k. Gewerbschule zu Chemnitz. Stuttgart: 1861.

Hydrography, Meteorology and Hyetography of Sacramento, Cal. By THOMAS M. LOGAN, M.D.

PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY.—

Account of Experiments made to determine the Velocities of Rifle Bullets commonly used. By the Rev. SAMUEL HAUGHTON, M.A., F.R.S., Fellow of Trinity Col. lege, Dublin. Dublin: 1862.

On the Construction of Improved Ordnance, as proposed in a letter to the Secretaries of War, and of the Navy, and the Chiefs of the Bureaus of Engineers, and of Ordnance, of the United States. By DANIEL TREADWELL, late Rumford Professor in Harvard College. Cambridge: 1862.

Der Erdmagnetismus als folge der Bewegung der Erde im Aeter. Von GUSTAV HINRICHS, Cand. Math. Copenhagen: 1860.

Fem Love af den kosmiske Physik. Af GUSTAV HINRICHS, Cand. Math. Kjoebenhavn: 1860.

Description of an Electrical Machine of a New Form, constructed with regard to the principles of electrical laws. By P. H. VANDERWEYDE, M.D., Professor of Chemistry at the N. Y. Medical College, and of Physics and Chemistry at the Cooper Inst., N. Y. New York: 1862.

The Observed Motions of the Companion of Sirius considered with reference to the disturbing body indicated by Theory. By T. H. SAFFORD, Assistant at the Observatory of Harvard College. From the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. VI. Cambridge: 1863.

Description of a new Cataloguing and Charting Machine. By G. W. HOUGH, A.M., Astronomer in charge of the Dudley Observatory. Abstract of a Paper read before the Albany Institute. Albany: 1863.

AM. JOUR. SCI.-SECOND SERIES, VOL. XXXVII, No. 109.-JAN., 1864.

Notice sur la Pile Electrique de M. GRENET dans les applications chirurgicales et sur les opérations que l'on peut faire avec cet instrument. Suivie de la description de son anse coupante à température constante.

Paris: 1859.

Preliminary Researches on Thallium. By William Crookes, Esq., F.C.S. Continuation of the same.

MINERALOGY AND GEOLOGY.

Ancient Mining of the Shores of Lake Superior. By CHARLES WHITTLESEY.— Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. Washington City: April, 1863. New York: D. Appleton & Co.

The Penokie Mineral Range, Wisconsin. By CHARLes Whittlesey, of Cleveland, Ohio. Boston: 1863.

Experimental Researches on the Granites of Ireland. Part III.-On the Granites of Donegal. By the Rev. SAMUEL HAUGHTON, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S., Fellow of Trinity College, and Professor of Geology in the University of Dublin. London: 1862. Essay on Comparative Petrology. By M. J. DUROCHER, Mining Engineer, and Professor of the Faculty of Science at Rennes. Translated from the "Annales des Mines," Vol. XI, 1857, by the Rev. SAMUEL HAUGHTON, M.A., F.R.S., Fellow of Trin. ity College, and Professor of Geology in the University of Dublin. Dublin: 1859. On the Chemical and Mineralogical Relations of Metamorphic Rocks, by T. STERBY HUNT, M.A., F.R.S. Reprinted from the Dublin Quarterly Journal of Science for July, 1863. Montreal: 1863.

On the Geological Structure of the Southern Grampians. By JAMES NICOL, F.R.S.E., F.G.S., Prof. of Nat. Hist. in the University of Aberdeen.

On the Gold-Bearing Strata of Merionethshire. By T. A. READWIN, F.G.S., F.S.S. Manchester: 1862.

Report on the Chaudière Gold Mines, Canada East. Sept. 1863. Printed by order of the Legislature. Quebec: 1863.

Report of the Chief Gold Commissioner for the Province of Nova Scotia, for the year 1862. Halifax, N. S: 1863.

Note Sur les Formes cristallines et sur les Propriétés optiques biréfringentes du castor et du pétalite. Par M. DES CLOIZEAUX.

Note Sur les Propriétés optiques biréfringentes et sur la Forme cristalline de l'amblygonite. By the same. From the author, Sept. 24, 1863.

Observations sur les Modifications permanentes et temporaires que l'action de la chaleur apporte a quelques propriétés optiques de plusieurs corps cristallisés. By the same.

Rapporto sulle cave di Marmi varicolori aperte nei beni di proprieta della Siga, TEODORA GELICHI NEI CAPORALI, nel luogo detto il Capannino.

Del Macigno Ofiolitico. Nota del Prof. Cav. G. MENEGHINI.

Della presenza del Ferro Oligisto nei giacimenti ofiolitici di Toscana. Nota del Prof. Cav. G. MENEGHINI. Pisa: 1860.

Diamonds. By WILLIAM POLE, Fellow of the Geological Society, etc. etc. Extracted from Macmillan's Magazine for January, 1861. With a Note on the Imperial State Crown and its Jewels, by Prof. J. TENNANT, F.G.S. etc. Reprinted from the Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archæological Society, Vol. I. London: 1861.

The Mansfeld Copper-slate Mines in Prussian Saxony: their past and present state. With Statistics, Metallurgical Processes, Administration, Social Condition of the Miners, Provident Fund. By W. P. JERVIS, F.G.S., Mining Engineer. Reprinted from the Journal of the Society of Arts.

On the International Exhibition of 1862. By Mr. WM. HAWES. A Paper read before the Society of Arts, June 5th, 1861.

Geologiske Undersogelser i Bergens Omegn af TH. HIORTDAHL og M. IRGENS. Christiania: 1862.

ZOOLOGY.

Ueber Parthenogenesis. Dr. C. TH. F. VON SIEBOLD, K. Universitäs-Professor, ord. Mitglieb der k. Akademie der Wissenschaften. München, 1862.

Beskrivelse over Lophogaster typicus, en Mærkværdig Form af de Lavere Tifod dede Krebsdyr, af Dr. MICHAEL SARS, Prof. ved Christianias Universitet. Med 3 lithographerede Plancher. Christiania: 1832.

Synopsis of the Vegetable Products of Norway. By Dr. F. C. SCHUEBELER. Translated from the MS. by Rev. M. R. Barnard, B.A. British Chaplain, Christiania. Christiania: 1862.

On the Form of the Cells made by various Wasps, and by the Honey Bee with an Appendix on the Origin of Species. By the Rev. SAMUEL HAUGHTON, M.D., F.R.S. Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. Dublin: 1863.

Remarks on some Characteristics of the Insect-Fauna of the White Mountains, New Hampshire. By SAMUEL H. SCUDDER. From the Boston Journal of Natural History, Vol. VII, Part IV. Cambridge: Nov. 1863.

Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of New Orleans and its vicinity, prepared by L VON REIZENSTEIN. New Orleans: 1863.

Bibliography of North American Conchology previous to the year 1860.-Smith sonian Miscellaneous Collections. Prepared for the Smithsonian Institution by W. G. Binney. Part I. American authors. Washington: March, 1863.

Annual Report of the Trustees of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, together with the Report of the Director, 1862. Boston: 1863.

MEDICINE.

Medico-Legal Contributions on Arsenic. By CHARLES H. PORTER, M.D. Albany,

1862.

Outlines of a New Theory of Muscular Action. By the Rev. SAMUel Haughton, M.D., F.R.S., Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. London: 1862.

The Purification and Disinfection of the System by a proper use of fresh-burned Charcoal and pure Air better than poisoning it for the Prevention aud Cure of the great majority of Diseases. By A. S. L. New York: 1863.

The Transactions of the N. Y. Academy of Medicine.-Management of Pulmonary Tuberculosis. By AUSTIN FLINT, M.D. New York: 1863.

A Manual of Etherization: containing directions for the employment of Ether, Chloroform, and other Anæsthetic agents, by inhalation, in Surgical Operations. By CHAS. T. JACKSON, M.D., F.G.S.F. Boston: 1861.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Esposizione Italiana 1861. Relazioni dei Giurati. Industria Mineraria e Metallurgica. London.

Report of the Committee of the Overseers of Harvard College appointed to visit the Observatory in the year 1862; together with the Report of the Director. Bos

ton: 1863.

Inaugural Address of WILLIAM CHAUVENET, LL.D., as Chancellor of Washington University, June 17, 1863. St. Louis.

The Water Gas Correspondence; reprinted from the North American and U. S. Gazette. With a Preliminary Letter, addressed to Edward H. Trotter, Esq., Presi dent of the Board of Trustees of the City Gas Works. Philadelphia: 1860.

Memorial of Prof. Charles Hooker, M.D.-The Inaugural Address of LEONARD J. Sanford, M.D., as Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in Yale College. Delivered September 17th, 1863. New Haven: 1863.

Contents of the Correspondence of Scientific Men of the Seventeenth Century, printed at the University Press, Oxford, in two volumes, 1841. Compiled by AuGUSTUS DE MORGAN, F.R.A. and C.P.S., of Trinity College, Cambridge; Prof. of Mathematics in University College, London Oxford: 1862.

Zum Gedächtniss an Jean Baptiste Biot. Gesprochen in der öffentlichen Sitzung der k. b. Akademie der Wissenschaften am 28. März 1862. Von CARL FRIEDRICH PHILIPP VON MARTIUS, Secretär der Mathem. Phys. Classe. München: 1862.

Rede in der öffentlichen Sitzung der k. Akademie der Wissenschaften am 28. November 1861. Zur Feier des allerhöchsten geburtsfestes Sr. Majestät des Königs Maximilian II., gehalten von JUFTUS FREIHERRN VON LIEBIG, Vorstand der k. Akademie. München: 1861.

Giornale dell Ingegnere-Architetto ed Agronomo. Anno IX. Num. 7o e 8°.-Luglio e Agosto 1861.

Le Moniteur Illustré des Inventions et des Découvertes. Journal Universel des Expositions Françaises et Etrangères et des Progrès Industriels. Octobre-Novembre

1863. Paris: 1863.

Transactions of Societies.

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. Vol. VIII.-Part II.-361, On the Measure of Forces of Bodies moving with different Velocities; D. Treadwell.—370, Remarks on Specie Reserves and Bank Deposits; Francis Bowen.-389, A History of the Fishes of Massachusetts, (with six plates); David Humphreys Storer (continued.)-435, On Certain Forms of Interpolation: W. P. G. Bartlett.-445. Obser vations on the Language of Chaucer, (based on Wright's edition of the Canterbury Tales, Harleian MS. No. 7334); F. J. Child.—-503, Plantæ Wrightianæ e Cuba Ori. entali, Pars II. (Monopetelæ et Monocotyledones); A. Grisebach.-537, A Catalogue of Standard Polar and Clock Stars, for the Reduction of Observation in Right Ascension-with a discussion of their positions; Truman Henry Safford.-569, The Sun, a small Star; Alvan Clark.

JOURNAL OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA, Vol. V.— Part IV.-FEBRUARY, 1862.-5, On the Chilopoda of North America, with a catalogue of all the specimens in the Collection of the Smithsonian Institution; Horatio C. Wood, Jr.-53, New Unionide of the United States; Isaac Lea.-OCTOBER, 1862.-111, Monograph of the Fossil Polyzoa of the Secondary and Tertiary Formations of North America; Wm. M. Gabb and G. H. Horn, M.D.-181, Descriptions of New Birds from Western Africa in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; John Cassin.-187, New Unionide of the United States and Arctic America; Isaac Lea.-MARCH, 1865.-217, New Melanide of the United States; Isaac Lea-NOVEMBER, 1863.-358, On the Pedipalpi of North America; H. C. Wood, Jr., M. D.—277, New Exotic Unionida; Isaac Lea.401, Descriptions of the soft parts of one hundred and forty-three species and some Embryonic Forms of Unionidae of the United States; Isaac Lea.-457, Description of new and little known species of Birds of the family Picide in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; John Cassin.—Vol. V. Part V, contains continuation of Mr. Lea's Paper on New Melanidæ.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACAD. OF NAT. SCI. OF PHILAD. 1863, (continued from vol. xxxvi, p. 452.-p. 205. Description of a new species of Cherojulis from North Carolina; T. Gill.-207, On an unnamed generic type allied to Sebastes; T. Gill.-209, Description of a new generic type of Ophidioids; T. Gill; 213, Synopsis of the Pomacentroids of the Western Coast of North and Central America ; T. Gill.—221, Notes on the Labroids of the Western Coast of North America; T. Gill.-224, Synopsis of the family of Lepturoids, and descriptions of a remakable new generic type; T. Gill.-229, Synopsis of the North American Gadoid Fishes; T. Gill242, Descriptions of the genera of Gadoid and Brotuloid Fishes of Western North America; T. Gill.-254, Synopsis of the family of Lycodoida; T. Gill.-262, De scriptions of the Gobioid genera of the Western Coast of Temperate North America; T. Gill.-267, On the Gobioids of the Eastern Coast of the United States; T. Gill.-271, On the genus Periophthalmus of Schneider; T. Gill.-272, Note on the genera of Hemirhamphine; İ. Gill.

AMERICAN PHIL. Soc. TRANSACTIONS.-Vol. XII.-Part III.-Art. 4, Intellectual Symbolism: a Basis for Science; Pliny Earle Chase, M.A.-Vol. XIII, p. 1, On Californian Mosses; L. Lesquereux.