76 Scientific Intelligence. 



No. 10. The Spectroscopic Laboratory of the Solar Observa- 

 tory ; by George E. Hale. Pp. 7. 



No. 11. Preliminary Paper on the Cause of the Characteristic 

 Phenomena of Sun-spot Spectra ; by G. E. Hale, W. S. Adams 

 and H. G. Gale. Pp. 29. 



No. 12. Sun-spot Lines in the Spectrum of Arcturus ; by 

 W. S. Adams. Pp. 9. 



6. American Association. — The fifty-seventh meeting of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science will be 

 held at Columbia University in New York City, during the week 

 from December 27, 1906, to January 2, 190*7. Dr. W. H. Welch, 

 of Baltimore, is the president. Eleven societies meet in New 

 York in affiliation with the Association at this the fifth of its 

 convocation week meetings. 



7. Amerikanisches Hochschuhcesen : EindriicTce unci Betracht- 

 ungen von Dr. W. Bottger, Pp 70. Leipzig, 1906 (Wilhelm 

 Engelmann). — The author of this pamphlet spent a year as 

 research associate in the laboratory of physiological chemistry in 

 the Boston Institute of Technology. The results of his observa- 

 tions and studies in regard to the general system of American 

 universities were presented by him in a lecture delivered before 

 the Chemical Society of Leipzig. This lecture is the basis of the 

 present paper, which has been expanded and completed. Those 

 interested in university work, and particularly in the essential 

 differences between the institutions in this country and Germany, 

 will find here much of interest. 



8. Notes on Adirondack Mammals, with Specicd Reference 

 to the Furbearers ; by Madison Grant. Reprinted from the 

 eighth and ninth Reports of the Forest, Fish and Game Com- 

 mission, State of New York. Pp. 319-334. — A brief account of 

 the larger mammals of the North Woods, including some which 

 have long since disappeared from the region. The paper is 

 accompanied by 24 plates of very satisfactory photographs of 

 these animals. 



9. Annual Report of the Director of the Weather Bureau of 

 the Philippine Islands for the year 190Jf.. Parts I and II. Pp. 

 208. Manila, 1906 (Bureau of" Printing). — This report of the 

 Rev. Jose Algue, Director of the Weather Bureau at Manila, 

 contains the hourly meteorological and magnetic observations 

 made at the Manila Central Observatory in 1904. The Director 

 has also issued from the advance sheets of the September bulletin 

 an account of the destructive Hongkong typhoon of September 

 18, 1906. 



10. Science Bulletin of the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute 

 of Arts and Sciences. Vol. I, No. 9. — This recently issued bul- 

 letin contains the following papers : On new and known genera 

 and species of the Family Chrysomelidae ; hy Charles Schaef- 

 fer. Pp. 221-253. Hemiptera from Southwestern Texas; by 

 H. G. Barber. Pp. 255-289. 



