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‘description of ‘The Shearwaters and Fulmars 
as Birds and Bait,’ by J. W. Collins. W. P. 
Lemmon describes a ‘Nest of Duck Hawks in 
New Jersey,’ and the balance of the number is 
filled with notes and reviews. 
THE Macmillan Company announces that it 
will commence the publication on January Ist 
of the International Monthly, a magazine of con- 
temporary thought edited by Mr. Frederick A. 
Richardson with a distinguished advisory board. 
The magazine proposes to give in each number 
a comparatively few articles of considerable 
length, and science is to have a prominent place. 
Thus the five articles in the first number in- 
clude, ‘Influence of the Sun on the Formation 
of the Earth’s Surface,’ by Professor N. 8. 
Shaler, and ‘Recent Advance in Physical 
Science,’ by Professor John Trowbridge. The 
members of the advisory board as it is thus far 
organized are: 
History: J. H. Robinson, Columbia University ; 
George Monod, College of France ; Karl Lamprecht, 
University of Leipsig. 
Philosophy: Josiah Royce, Harvard University ; 
Xavier Léon, Paris; Paul Natorp, Marburg Univer- 
sity ; George F. Stout, Oxford. 
Psychology: Edward B. Titchener, Cornell Univer- 
sity ; George F. Stout, Oxford; Th. Ribot, Paris ; 
Oswald Kiilpe, Leipsig University. 
Sociology: Franklin H. Giddings, Columbia Uni- 
versity ; Gabriel Tarde, Paris ; Georg Simmel, Berlin 
University ; J.S. Mackenzie, Cardiff, Wales. 
Comparative Religion: C. H. Toy, Harvard Univer- 
versity ; Jean Réville, College of France ; F. B. Jev- 
ons, University of Durham ; C. P. Tiele, University 
of Leiden ; Ths. Achelis Bremen. 
Literature: William P. Trent, University of the 
South ; Richard Garnett, London; Gustave Lanson; 
Paris ; Alois Brandl, Berlin University. 
Fine Art:, John C. Van Dyke, Rutgers College ; 
Georges Perrot, Paris University ; Adolph Fiirtwang- 
ler, Munich University. 
Biology: Charles O. Whitman, University of Chi- 
cago ; Raphael Blanchard, College of France ; E. B. 
Poulton, Oxford University ; Wilhelm Roux, Jnns- 
bruck University. 
Medicine: D. B. St. John Roosa, Pres. Graduate 
School of Medicine ; Sir Thomas G. Stewart, Univer- 
sity of Edinburgh ; Leop. Panas, College of France; 
Carl Von Noorden, Frankfurt a. M. 
SCIENCE. 
[N. S. Von. X. No. 259. 
Geology: Joseph Le Conte, University of California; 
Sir Archibald Geikie, London; Hermann Credner, 
Leipsig University. 
Departments of Physics and Industrial Arts 
are to be added. 
THE October number of the Kansas Univer- 
sity Quarterly contains a list of the scientific 
publications of the faculty and students of the 
State University. This list, which numbers 
some 800 books and papers, includes only 
those publications on natural and physical 
science and mathematics. 
SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 
THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 
SECTION OF ASTRONOMY AND PHYSICS. 
ArT the meeting of the Astronomy and Physics 
Section of the New York Academy of Sciences, 
on Monday evening, November 6, 1899, Pro- 
fessor J. K. Rees, of Columbia University, gave 
a lecture, illustrated by lantern views, on ‘ No- 
vember Meteor Showers.’ Among other things, 
the speaker said that one of the theories of the 
origin of some meteors was that they were at 
some time ejected from the sun or moon, earth, 
or other planets, by volcanic explosions, and if 
from the earth, they traveled in an orbit that 
intersected that of the earth. The later theories 
which identify meteor streams with comets or 
the remains of comets, seem most satisfactory. 
Those meteors which reach the earth have a 
large percentage of nickel in their composition, 
and show when they are polished, a peculiar 
and characteristic crystalline structure. A great 
many of these meteors reach the earth on an 
average each day, as many as ten million or 
more, it has been estimated. Interplanetary 
space is full of them. During the meteor 
showers, this number is greatly increased. 
During the shower of 1833, at one place on 
the earth as many as 240,000 were estimated to 
have been visible during eight hours. 
Historical records seem to show that showers 
of meteors have been seen at intervals of thirty- 
three years in the fall of the year for some time 
back. In 1799 Humboldt saw one from the 
Andes Mountains. In 1833 there was another. 
Professor H. A. Newton of Yale, after investi- 
gating the subject, predicted another in 1866, 
