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Fields,’ by L. W. Reid; ‘On Certain Proper- 
ties of the Plane Cubic Curve in Relation to 
the Circular Points at Infinity,’ by R. A. 
Roberts. The number contains a portrait of 
the venerable ex-mathematician, George Sal- 
mon, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. 
The Popular Science Monthly for February has 
for its leading article ‘Huxley’s Life and 
Work,’ by Lord Avebury, being the first Hux- 
ley Memorial Lecture of the Anthropological 
Institute of Great Britain. ‘ Malaria,’ by Geo. 
M. Sternberg, being the address of the Presi- 
dent of the Philosophical Society of Washington, 
gives a résumé of our knowledge of this subject 
and brings it up to date. ‘A Study of British 
Genius,’ by Havelock Ellis, is based on the 
Dictionary of National Biography and this, the 
introductory paper ofa series, explains how the 
selections were made and gives the names of 
those selected. ‘The Weather vs. the News- 
papers,’ by Harvey Maitland Watts, is an excel- 
lent brief exposition of the main facts of weather 
phenomena and of the general misunderstand- 
ing by the press and public. A brief and inter- 
esting article on ‘The Philippines Two Hun- 
dred Years Ago,’ by E. E. Slosson, is culled 
from the writings of Father Dominick Fernandez 
Navarette and Dr. John Francis Gemilli Careri. 
‘The Prehistoric Tombs of Algeria’ are de- 
scribed by Alpheus 8. Packard. Charles L. 
Bristol treats of ‘The York Aquarium,’ and in 
‘Chapters on the Stars,’ Simon Newcomb dis- 
cusses their clustering, the Milky Way, and 
stars with waning brightness. Finally Oliver 
C. Farrington, in ‘ A Ceatury of the Study of 
Meteorites,’ gives a brief summary of our 
knowledge of these bodies. Discussion and 
Correspondence comprises two contributions 
that especially deserve to be read, the one ‘A 
Defense of Christian Science’ as a fine example 
of this peculiar style of ‘scientific’ writing ; 
the other ‘Mr. Tesla’s Science,’ for its tem- 
perate criticism of certain kinds of ‘science.’ 
The departments of ‘Scientific Literature and 
the Progress of Science’ contain much good 
reading. 
Bird Lore for February opens with an article 
on ‘Pelican Island Revisited,’ by Frank M. 
Chapman, withnumerous and admirableillustra- 
SCIENCE. 
(N.S. Von. XIII. No. 321. 
tions from photographs by the author. ‘ Elliott 
Coues on Audubon’ is a verbatim report of an 
address delivered by Dr. Coues before the Ameri- 
.can Ornithologists’ Union in 1897, and this is 
followed by ‘‘Three Letters to Audubon’s 
‘Kentucky Lads’ ”’ (his sons Victor and John), 
contributed by Maria R. Audubon. ‘An Ad- 
irondack Lunch Counter,’ with illustrations, 
describes the habits of some of the winter vis- 
itors. The second series of ‘ Birds and Seasons’ 
discusses the birds to be met during February 
and March in various sections of the country, 
and then comes ‘ The Christmas Bird Census,’ 
giving a list of the birds noted on that day at 
various places from Massachusetts to California 
and Canada to Louisiana. There isan interest- 
ing paper, by C. William Bebee, of a pair of 
Bald Eagles in the New York Zoo, who built a 
nest and have placed therein a good-sized stone 
on which they sit. Reviews and the depart- 
ment devoted to the Audubon Societies complete 
the number. 
The Vermonter, St. Albans, Vt., C. S. Forbes, 
publisher, begins the year in magazine form and 
proposes to print monthly articles on the his- 
tory, science and mineral interests of Vermont. 
The February number contains an interesting 
article on the geology of Vermont by Professor 
Henry M. Seely, of Middleburg College. 
THE University of Missouri is about to pub- 
lish, under the editorship of Frank Thilly, 
professor of philosophy, a series of University 
Studies, containing contributions by members of 
the faculty and graduate students. 
SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 
Ar the 529th meeting held February 2, 1901, 
three reports were made of observations during 
the solar eclipse of May 28, 1900. 
Professor S. P. Langley reported on the Smith- 
sonian observations at Wadesboro, N. C., ex- 
hibiting many lantern slides of the apparatus 
used and superb photographs of the corona and 
sky. He stated that direct photographs were 
taken showing the moon 15 inches in diameter» 
dnd that the bolometric work, performed by 
Mr. Abbot, showed the heat from the corona to 
be only five eighty-fifths of that received from 
