Mat 20, 1904.] 



SCIENCE. 



805 



which have been excerpted for the bibliog- 

 raphy. 



references deal with individual groups of ani- 

 mals found in Sumatra, as, e. g., Hispidse or 



(A) Subject Index. 



1. Paleontology . . 



2. General biology 



3. Microscopy, etc. 



4. Zoology 



5. Anatomy 



6. Physiology 



1,460 



187 



266 



18,845 



1,940 



1,380 



1,840 



151 



132 



14,271 



936 



1,270 



2,662 



92 



249 



13,326 



1,875 



433 



2,035 



155 



263 



16,845 



2,007 



1,436 



93 



107 



11,059 



1,224 



2,170 



200 



169 



11, 



1,5... 



11,603 

 878 



1,186 

 85, 



9,5... 



3,083 



Total 



(B) Authors' Index. 



24,078 

 16,165 



18,600 

 9,492 



18,637 

 10,890 



21,305 

 10,119 



13,919 

 6,727 



15,2... 

 7, 



111,7. 

 60,... 



Total 



40,243 



29,527 31,424 



20,646 



23,. 



173,. 



Another is a card catalogue of all new 

 names of generic or subgeneric rank which 

 have been proposed in paleontology or in zool- 

 ogy since January 1, 1901. Each name will 

 be given two entries, one under the appro- 

 priate tasonomic heading, the other, in alpha- 

 betical arrangement. The price per card of 

 the new catalogue will be double the usual 

 tariff. , 



The third new publication is that relating 

 to comparative physiology, in regard to which 

 a special circular has been prepared. 



Sooner than we expected, our quarters have 

 become too small for storing our rapidly grow- 

 ing collection; but relief has been found for 

 the overflow in a neighboring house. 



The following table shows the total number 

 of entries in a complete set of cards arranged 

 by subjects and by authors. The years refer 

 to the date of publication of the cards. 



Distribution hy Topics. — The distribution 

 of primary cards in the chief divisions of the 

 bibliography is shown in the following tables. 

 Our statistics are, however, merely approxi- 

 mate, the earlier cards of the complete series 

 being now quite out of print. The ' complete 

 set ' as understood by us can best be explained 

 by an example. Subscribers to the complete 

 set have thus far received 134 cards in the 

 division ' Fauna of Sumatra.' This same di- 

 vision of the systematic set contains a single 

 reference (Moesch : ' Nach und aus dem Pfef- 

 ferlande')- This contribution appeared to us 

 too general for us to cite it under any par- 

 ticular systematic group and it was classed 

 under Sumatra in general; the remaining 133 



Lemoniidas. In the ' systematic set,' they are 

 entered under Hispidse, Lemoniidffi, etc. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 Mr. F. a. Lucas, curator of the Division of 

 Comparative Anatomy of the U. S. National 

 Museum, has been appointed curator in chief 

 of the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of 

 Arts and Sciences. Mr. Lucas succeeds Mr. 

 Alfred G. Mayer, who, as we have already an- 

 nounced, has been appointed curator of the 

 Marine Laboratory of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion at Tortugas, Florida. 



Sir Da^td Gill, director of the Observatory 

 of the Cape of Good Hope, has been elected 

 honorary member of the Finnish Academy of 

 Sciences. 



The French Geographical Society, at its 

 general meeting on April 22, conferred gold 

 medals on Dr. Sven Hedin and Captain 

 Lenfant. 



The Council of the British Institution of 

 Civil Engineers has made the following 

 awards for papers read and discussed before 

 the institution during the past session : A 

 Telford gold medal to Major Sir Robert Han- 

 bury Brown ; a George Stephenson gold medal 

 to Mr. G. H. Stephens, C.M.G.; and a Watt 

 gold medal to Mr. Alphonse Steiger ; Telford 

 premiums to Mr. E. W. De Eusett, Dr. Hugh 

 Robert Mill, Mr. Alexander Millar, and Mr. 

 T. E. Stanton ; a Manby premium to Professor 

 J. Campbell Brown; and a Crampton prize to 

 Mr. L. H. Savile. 



