ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.] MISCELLANEOUS. 69 



137. [American Metrological Society, by Simon Newcomb and James H. Gore.] 



Medical Notes and Queries (edited by Henry W. Cattel), vol. 2 (Mar., 1906): GO-61. 



Communication dated Washington, Mar. 12, 1906, appealing " for aid in promoting the progress of the metric system"; signed 

 by S. Newcomb as chairman of the legislative committee and J. H. Gore as secretary of the Society. 



138. Our navy. 



N. Amer. Rev., vol. 182 (Mar., 1906): 321-322. 

 Anonymous, by "An American Citizen." 



139. University athletics. 



N. Amer. Rev., vol. 1S5 (June 21, 1907): 353-364. 



Also in College and the Future; Essays for the Undergraduate on Problems of Character and Intellect. Edited 

 by R. A. Rice. New York, Scribner, 1915. 

 One of IS articles. 



140. The prospect of aerial navigation. 



N. Amer. Rev., vol. 187 (Mar., 1908): 337-347. 



141. The problem of aerial navigation. 



Nineteenth Century, vol. 64 (Sept., 1908): 430-442. 

 Also in Living Age, vol. 259 (Oct. 24, 1908): 195-205. 



142. Awaits the inevitable hour. 



Nation, New York, vol. 87 (Nov. 5, 1908): 437. 



Letter dated, Washington, Oct. 28, 1908. On Dr. Rolf amending the reading in Gray's "Elegy." 



143. How an encyclopaedia may be edited. 



Nation, New York, vol. 87 (Nov. 19, 1908): 492. 



Letter dated Washington, Nov. 7, 1908. It repudiates any connection whatever as "editor" of the Twentieth Century Ency- 

 clopaedia, Philadelphia, Syndicate Publ. Co., 1906, which seems to be simply another edition of The A merican Educator pub- 

 lished by the same company in 1897, and for which S. Newcomb may have written a couple of articles. The title page of 

 the latter work refers to him as one of the "associate editors and special contributors." 



144. Modern occultism. 



Nineteenth Century, vol. 65 (Jan., 1909): 126-139. 

 Also in Living Age, vol. 260 (Feb. 13, 1909): 387-398. 



This provoked "Attitude of science to the unusual" by O. Lodge, Nineteenth Century, vol. 65 (Feb., 1909): 206-222; also in» 

 Living Age, vol. 260 (Mar. 20, 1909): 707-719. Cf. "Science and the supernatural," New York Sun (Feb. 21, 1909). See also 

 Section I, no. 80. 



145. Joseph Henry, physicist, 1797-1878, in Leading American Men of Science, ed. by D. S. 



Jordan. 

 New York, Holt, 1910. pp. 119-146. 



Compare no. 40 in this Section and no. 46 in Section I. A number of paragraphs in the former are the same as in the sketch 

 above. 



146. The metric system of weights and measures. Why it should be adopted in the United 



States. 



Washington, American Metrological Society, n. d. 6 pp. 



It is signed T. C. Mendenhall. president; J. H. Gore, secretary; S. Newcomb, chairman of the pubUcation committee. This 

 report must have been published before 1902, since Mendenhall resigned the presidency of the society in 1901 . Compare no. 

 114 of this Section. 



NUMBER OF TITLES. 



Section II. Astronomy 318 



Section III. Mathematics 35 



Section IV. Economics 42 



Secrion V. Miscellaneous 146 



Total 541 



