408 Scientific Intelligence. 



appointed, and the preliminary investigations, bearing principally 

 on the tidal-waves in the upper Adriatic together with the rivers 

 flowing into it and the lagoon of Venice, intrusted to Dr. Giovanni 

 Piero Magrini, who is to be assisted by Professors Luigi de Marchi 

 and Tullio Gnesotto of the University of Padua. Any publica- 

 tions which might prove useful in this undertaking are solicited 

 by the President, A. Favaro. 



6. The Philippine Journal of Science. — The second number .of 

 volume one of this new periodical (see xxi, p. 336) has been 

 recently issued, accompanied by Bulletin No. 36, having the 

 title : A Hand-list of the Birds of the Philippine Islands ; by 

 Richard C. McGregor and Dean C. Worcester. Pp. 123. 



7. Field Columbian Museum. — The following publications have 

 been recently issued : 



Botanical Series, Vol. II, No. 3, Prsenuncias bahamenses — I. 

 Contributions to the Flora of the Bahamian Archipelago ; by 

 C. F. Millspaugh. Pp. 1 3*7-184. 



Report Series, Vol. II, No. 5. Annual Report of the Director, 

 Frederick F. J. Skiff, to the Board of Trustees for the year 

 1904-1905. Pp. 333-435, plates lxi-lxxi. 



La Matiere, sa Naissance, sa Vie, sa Fin ; par P. De Heen. Pp. 119, with 

 61 figures. Bruxelles, 1905, Hayes (Iroprimeur des Academies Koyales de 

 Belgique). 



Nouvelles Orientations Scientifiqties : Ouvrage traduit du Catalan avec 

 l'autorisation de l'auteur; par J. Pin Y. Soler. Pp. 164, with 36 figures. 

 Paris ; 1905 (Garnier Freres, Editetirs). 



The Universal Kinship ; J. Howard Moore. Pp. 329. Chicago, 1906 

 Charles H. Kerr & Co.). 



Obituary. 



James Mills Peirce died suddenly in Cambridge on the 21st 

 of March, 1906, in the 72d year of his age. 



A member of the faculty of Harvard College for nearly 50 

 years, he served the University as Tutor in Mathematics, as 

 Assistant Professor, and as Professor and Dean of The Graduate 

 School and Dean of The Faculty of Arts and Sciences. 



He was remarkable for the breadth and depth of his scholarship 

 and for the thoroughness and finish of his work whether as lec- 

 turer, legislator, or administrator, rather than for his scientific 

 productiveness. His students knew him as a helpful friend and 

 as an inspiring teacher, his associates as one of the most genial 

 and lovable of men. w. e. b. 



Nathaniel S. Shaler, Professor of Geology in Harvard Uni- 

 versity and Dean of the Lawrence Scientific School, died on April 

 10th, at the age of sixty -five years ; a notice is deferred until 

 another number. 



M. P. Curie, the French chemist and physicist, to whom, 

 with Mme. Curie, our knowledge of radium and its properties is 

 largely due, was accidentally killed in Paris on April 19th. 



Professor Lionel Smith Beale, well known through his 

 works on the microscope, died on March 28 at the age of seventy- 

 eight years. 



