July 6, 1906.] 



SCIENCE. 



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Dr. Charles Palache, professor of petrography, 

 Harvard University. 



Mr. Louis V. Pirsson, professor of petrography, 

 Yale University. 



Dr. Henry S. Washington, petrographer. 



Professor L. von Jaczewski, professor of min- 

 eralogy and geology at the University of Ekater- 

 inoslav, St. Petersburg. 



Herrn Geheimrath Dr. A. B. Meyer, director 

 Konigliches Zoologisches und Anthropologisch- 

 Ethnographisehes Museum, Dresden. 



Herrn Dr. Max Bauer, director Mineralogisches 

 Institut der Konigliches Universitat, Marburg 

 ( Hessen ) . 



Mr. Robinson, artist. 



Dr. Thomas Wilson, late curator. Division of 

 Prehistoric Archeology, Smithsonian Institution, 

 U. S. National Museum, Washington. 



Dr. Joseph Edkins, of Shanghai. 



Professor A. Damour, of Paris. 



Dr. Ludwig Leiner, curator of Rosegarten Mu- 

 seum, Constance. 



Mrs. Zella Nuttall, Peabody Museum, Cam- 

 bridge, Mass. 



Miss Eliza Scidmore. 



Dr. F. Berwerth, Mineralogisches Abtheilung, 

 Hof Museum, Vienna. 



Professor Ernst Weinschenk, professor of 

 petrography at the Mineralogisches Institut, 

 Munich. 



The Field Columbian Museum, Chicago. 



The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 



The Museum of Natural History, New York. 



The following Frencli etchers were repre- 

 sented: Sulpis, Guerard, Richard, Piquet, 

 Le Rat, Coutry and a number of plates by 

 Smillie of the United States. 



The lithographs are by Prang & Co., and 

 Forbes & Co., of Boston. 



Name of maker of paper, the finest hand- 

 made linen paper, especially made by the L. L. 

 Brown Paper Co., Adams, Mass. 



Name of printer, Theo. L. De Vinne & Co., 

 Lafayette Place, New York. It is the most 

 im.portant work that has ever come from the 

 De Vinne press. 



Name of binders, Stikeman & Co., New 

 York. Bound in full Levant with exquisite 

 tooling. No hundred volumes have ever re- 

 ceived such stately bindings of green Levant 

 as was produced by Stikeman & Co. 



The tools for the decorations by George W. 

 De Lacey. 



A series (twelve full-page) of water-color 

 sketches of all the processes of working jade 

 in every possible manner was made in China 

 by Chinese artists. 



The original lithographic color plates were 

 laid out on the lines of ' Gems and Precious 

 Stones of North America.' 



Among great illustrated books there are, 

 Audubon's folio of birds, Svenegrodzkoi, 

 ' Byzantine Animals,' published in Russia, 

 Gould's ' Birds of Many Lands,' the great il- 

 lustrated catalogue of Chinese porcelain of 

 the Walters collection, issued by Mr. Henry 

 Walters, the treasures of Tzarkoe Zelo, by the 

 Russian governor, catalogue of the J. P. 

 Morgan collection of Oriental porcelains. 

 Magnificent as these all are, each in its own 

 way, none of them possesses the great variety 

 of artistic illustrations as does the great Heber 

 R. Bishop catalogue. 



This whole work, from its inception by Mr. 

 Bishop in 1886 to the final distribution of the 

 volumes, has required about twenty years. 

 It is a cause for much satisfaction that the 

 enterprise has been so fully and successfully 

 completed, along the lines which he laid down ; 

 but it is also a source of profound regret that 

 he could not himself have lived to witness its 

 final place. 



This whole cost has been met by the lib- 

 erality of Mr. Bishop's provision, carried out 

 by the care and thoughtfulness of his three 

 executors, Messrs. Moses Taylor, Frank C. 

 Bishop and Alexander James Patterson. 



I must here express my thanks and appre- 

 ciation to Mr. Alexander James Patterson, who 

 has been untiring in his zeal and carefulness 

 throughout the entire carrying out of Mr. 

 Bishop's wishes, both written and unwritten, 

 and to whose courtesy I am indebted for many 

 of these facts, furnished me for the prepara- 

 tion of this article. 



George Frederick Kunz. 



the rock of the pelee obelisk and the con- 

 dition of the volcano in february, 1906- 

 The measure of doubt which has all along 



attached to the character and constitution of 



