628 SCIENTIFIC RECORD FOR 1&S3. 



Conference sur la transmission dn travail m^canique par les courants 



electriques, faite a la Societe d'encouragement pour l'industrie na- 



tionale. H. Tresca. 4to. pp. 28. Paris, 1883. (Tremblay.) 

 Manuel d'electroinelrie industrielle. B. V. Picon. Paris, 1882. (G. 



Masson.) 

 Electricity. E. M. Ferguson. New edition, revised and extended by 



James Blytli. London and Edinburgh, 1882. (Chambers.) 

 Electric Illumination. Conrad Cook, James Dredge, M. F. O'Eeilly, 



S. P. Thompson, and H. Vivarez. Edited by Jas. Dredge. Vol. I. 



London, 1882. (Engineering Office.) 

 II potentiale elettrico nell' insegnamento eleoientare della elettrosta- 



tica. A. Serpieri. Milan, 1882. 

 Electric Lighting Act, 1882. London, 1883. (W. Clowes & Sons.) 

 Die Lehre von der Electricitat. Gustav Wiedemann. Vol. i, pp. xi, 



795; Vol. ii, pp. vii, 1002. Braunschweig, 1882-3. (Vieweg.) 



NECROLOGY OF PHYSICISTS, 1883. 



Carl Winter, electrician, Vienna. Died December 7, 1S82. 



J. B. Listing, professor of physiology, Konigsberg. Died December, 



1882. 

 C. V. Walker, president Society Telegraph Engineers. Died at Tun- 

 bridge Wells, December 24, 1882, aged 70 years. 

 General Sir Edward Sabine, ex-president Royal Society. Died at 



Eichmond, Eng., June 26, 1883, aged 94 years. 

 William Spottiswoode, president Royal Society. Died in London, 



June 27, 1883, aged 58 years. 

 C. F. Varley, telegraphic engineer. Died at Bexley Heatu, Kent, 



September 2, 1883, aged 55 years. 

 J. A. F. Plateau, professor emeritus in the University of Ghent. Died 



September 15, 1883, aged 81 years. 

 William. A. Norton, professor of civil engineering in Yale College. 



Died September 21, 1883, aged 72 years. 

 Eichard Werdermann, electrician. Died in London, September, 1883. 

 Louis Breguet, electrician, member of the Institute. Died in Paris, 



October 27, 1883. 

 P. T. Eiess, professor University Berlin. Died in Berlin, November, 



1883. 

 Sir C. W. Siemens, electrical engineer. Died in London, November 19, 



1883, aged GO years. 



