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earnestly request chemists throughout the 

 country to send to me for safe-keeping in the 

 Smithsonian Institution such historical and 

 biographical documents of American chemical 

 history and biography as they may be willing 

 to part with. They will be kept together, 

 catalogued and be easily accessible to chemists, 

 students and other proper persons. Just at 

 present papers by the late Dr. Wolcott Gibbs 

 are particularly desired. Questions of pre- 

 cedence and patent questions may be decided 

 by such a concentration of documents in a 

 single accessible place. Please address them 

 to The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 

 D. C, care of Dr. Alfred Tuckerman. 



Alfred Tuckerman 



NOTES ON FISHES AT CORSON's INLET, NEW 

 JERSEY 



On March 1, 1909, in company with my 

 friend, Dr. E. J. PhiUips, the salt-ponds, on 

 the meadows at this locality were examined 

 for small fishes. We were rewarded by secur- 

 ing three fine examples' of the rare Fundulus 

 lucicB, a small cyprinodont described from 

 the Great Egg Harbor region by Baird in 

 1854. As this is the first definite instance of 

 its occurrence in New Jersey waters since that 

 time I have thought it well worthy of record. 

 Dr. T. H. Bean visited the region of the type 

 locality in 1887 and after a careful search 

 failed to locate the fish. The rediscovery of 

 the species was made by Dr. H. M. Smith in 

 the lower Potomac River in 1890, and was 

 based on two small specimens. Baird's types 

 were not then believed to be extant. Our 

 specimens were found associated with numer- 

 ous small amphipod crustaceae, Crangon vul- 

 garis, numbers of Palcemonetes vulgaris, 

 small transparent Anguilla chrisypa, numer- 

 ous F. heteroclitus macrolepidotus of all ages, 

 many Lucania parva,, great numbers of Oy- 

 prinodon variegatus and a single example of 

 Menidia heryllina cerea. Dr. Phillips picked 

 up a fine example of Gohiosoma losci on the 

 beach, and on February 15 he secured in a 

 rain-pool on the barrier beach a number of 

 specimens of Gasterosteus aculeatus and one 

 of Pygosteus pungitius, the latter being the 

 most southern record on the New Jersey coast 



we know of. Quite a nimiber of Pseudo- 

 pleuronectes americanus were reported by the 

 fishermen recently, and Ammodyies ameri- 

 canus was several times noted during the past 

 winter. Henry W. Fowler 



Academy of Natueal Sciences, 

 Philadelphia, 

 March 6, 1909 



SCIENTIFIC BOOKS 

 The Mechanical Engineering of Steam 

 Power Plants. By Dr. F. E. Hutton, 

 Professor Emeritus, Mechanical Engineer- 

 ing, Columbia University. Third edition^ 

 John Wiley & Son. 



The first edition of this work appeared in 

 1897 and it has become a standard work of 

 reference in its class. The third revised edi- 

 tion contains some changes in arrangement 

 of topics and material which brings the work 

 up to date. In the last edition the steam 

 turbine is fully described and its advantages, 

 as compared with the piston engine, thor- 

 oughly discussed. 



There are various technical works which 

 relate to specific machines required for the 

 generation of steam power, but only a few 

 which are devoted to the installation and ar- 

 rangement of these various machines so as 

 to produce the most economic result, which is 

 the branch of engineering to be considered 

 in the design and installation of the machin- 

 ery for a complete power plant. The modem 

 power plant involves such a large variety of 

 machinery that its construction constitutes a 

 complicated problem, and it is necessary for 

 the designer to be thoroughly acquainted 

 with the various types of machines and the 

 different varieties of each in order to make 

 an aggregation, of which all the parts will 

 co-act and perform their functions so as to 

 produce the highest economic results. It is 

 obvious that a steam power plant must con- 

 tain " steam-making" machinery, " steam- 

 using" machinery and the various elements 

 required for transmitting the steam from 

 where it is generated to where it is usefully 

 applied. A knowledge of the industries of' 

 this country reveals numerous manufacturers 

 engaged in the production of different vari- 



