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sophical books and articles, died on February 

 11. He was born in Germany in 1852. 



Mr. AiiONzo Howard Clark, curator of tbe 

 division of Mstory of the National Museum, 

 and editor of publications at the Smithsonian 

 Institution, died on December 31, 1918, in his 

 sixty-ninth year. 



The death has occurred of Miss Laura Brad- 

 street White, a teacher in the Girls' High 

 School in Boston from 1872 to 1916, and head 

 of the science department since 1875. She is 

 described by one of her colleagues as a woman 

 of " rare social gifts, a leader among men and 

 women, an authority on cheniastry, and a force 

 among teachers as well as those taught." 



G. Carey Foster, F.E.S., formerly principal 

 of University College, London, and previously 

 profeissor of physics there from 1865 to 1898, 

 died on February 9 at the age of eighty-three 

 years. 



R. A. E. BljVnohard, professor of parasitol- 

 ogy in the faculty of medicine. University of 

 Paris, has died aged sixty-two years. 



Dr. I. C. L. Holm, leader in the develop- 

 ment of the sanatorium system in Norway, 

 has died at the age of seventy three years. 



Dr. W. J. Holland, the director of the Car- 

 negie Museum, desires to notify the direction 

 of all museums and all collectors of birds that 

 a shipment of birds made for the Carnegie 

 Museum in French Guiana and in the vicinity 

 of Para, Brazil, was broken into and robbed of 

 a large part of its contents on its arrival in 

 New York City early in February, and he 

 desires to warn all parties to whom specimens 

 may be offered, coining from these parts and 

 identified as collected by S. M. Klages, that 

 such specimens are stolen goods, and he also 

 requests any one to whom such material may 

 be offered to hold it and to notify him of the 

 name and address of the person offering them, 

 so that the proper steps may be taken for their 

 recovery. 



The annual meeting of the American Asso- 

 ciation of Anatomists which was postponed 

 last December, wiU be held April 17 to 19 in 

 Pittsburgh. Professor E. R. Bensley, of the 

 University of Chicago, is president of the asso- 



ciation and Professor C. E. Stockard, of Cor- 

 nell University Medical College, is secretary. 



The American Association of Petroleum 

 Geologists will hold its fourth annual meeting 

 at Dallas, Texas, on March 13 to 15 next. 

 The headquarters of the Association will be 

 at the Adolphus Hotel. An interesting and 

 attractive program has been arranged. Fur- 

 ther details in regard to the meeting can be 

 secured by addressing Mr. W. E. Wrather, 

 6044 Bryan Parkway, Dallas, Texas. 



The Bureau of Economic Geology and 

 Technology of the University of Texas is 

 endeavoring to make a geological map of 

 every county in the state. In the interest of 

 this work E. H. Sellards, geologist in the 

 Division of Economic Geology of the Bureau, 

 recently spent two months in San Antonio 

 making a map of Bexar county. 



Dr. E. F. Shields, of the University of 

 Shantung, has recently accomplished the diffi- 

 cult task of translating Lewis and Strohr's 

 " Histology " into Chinese. An abbreviated 

 edition of Hallibiirton's " Physiology and His- 

 tology" had been previously available to 

 Chinese medical students, but Dr. Shield's 

 book is apparently the first in that language 

 devoted entirely to microscopic anatomy. 



The Publishers' Circular and Boohsellers' 

 Record, as quoted in Nature, records a total 

 of 7,716 books as having been published dur- 

 ing the year 1918. This is a decrease of 415 

 compared with the previous year, and it is ac- 

 counted for chiefly by a falling off in the 

 number of works of fiction ( — 523) and ju- 

 venile literature ( — 155) ; other classes that 

 have also decreased slightly are education, 

 agriculture, domestic, business, history and 

 geography. On the other hand, sociology has 

 increased by 112, technology by 110, medicine 

 by 80, and poetry by 98. Under " Science " 

 the number of new books recorded is 232, also 

 5 translations and 28 pamphlets. In addition, 

 there were 64 new editions, making a total of 

 329. In the year 1914 science occupied the 

 third place in twelve classes of literature, and 

 technology the fifth place; in 1918 technology 



