334 Scientific Intelligence. 
become one of the past, it appears that he ce ie! Sop ob 
Liége, quite down to the close of his life, early in the present year. 
is researches, published in 1839, upon which his scientific fame 
ests, appear to have been essentially his last, as well as his first 
contribution to science. was a most noteworthy contribution, 
however, if it contained, as is said, the announcement that animal 
tissues originate in cells, that Bacteria are the cause of putrefac- 
tion, and that alcoholic and analogous fermentations are ae 
by plants 
6. The “Census. Report on the History and Present Condition 
of the Fishing Industries ; prepared under the direction of Pro- 
fessor S. F. ee trp, U. 8. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, by 
C. Brown Goong, Assist. Director U. S. Nat. Mus. Zhe Seal- 
one of ioe: by Henry W. Exriorr, 176 pp. 4to, with 
lates and other illustr: volume treats of the Fur 
Seal Islands (the Pribylov), and ‘the seals, with great fulness, from 
all practical and scientific points of view. Its plates illustrate 
the seal in various attitudes and conditions, singly, nd in 
indefinite multitudes along the shores, and also the unt sea- 
lion, and birds of the region; and contains views of the eople 
and. their houses, the coast "scenery, and maps of the sealing 
region. The number of seal skins taken to market from the Pri- 
bylov Islands (St. George and St. Paul), in 1880, was 100, 000. 
These islands lie in the Ber ‘ing Sea (not Behring, remarks the 
author), between latitudes 56° ‘and 57° and the meridians ne 
and 170°, about 200 miles west of Cape Newenham. They ar 
voleanic in origin, but have no active fires. 
IV. ASTRONOMY. 
Micrometrical Measurements of 455 Double Stars, 1879-80 ; 
Subhiensons of the Cincinnati Observatory, No. 6, University of 
Cincinnati. Cincinnati, 1882. Large 8vo, pp. 69.—The sixth 
contribution to the Astronomical literature of double stars is 
alike creditable to the beh! sity of Cincinnati, ieee: Stone 
personally, and the pri Perhaps it would not an easy 
matter to find a better illustration of the wisdom in » confining the 
staff of a it gelncongel equipped observatory to such observ ations 
as do not imply expensive or tedious reduction, than is given in 
the consecutive pdiblientions of the observatory since it oy 
its activity under Professor Stone. The observations seem 
made with continuous care, according to a fixed system, and wid 
due regard to personal and systematic errors. The results are 
vected. 
: 2. Names of small Planets. ee following names have hash 
given to recently discovered plat 
12 Medea 218 Bianca, 
216 Cleopatra, 219 Thusnelda. 
