244 Scientific Intelligence. 



No. 59. The Pawnee : Mythology, Part I. Collected under 

 the auspices of the Carnegie Institution ; by George A. Dorsey. 

 Pp. 546. 



No. 61. The Electromotive Force of Iron under varying con- 

 ditions, and the Effect of Occluded Hydrogen ; by Theodore 

 William Richards and Gustavus Edward Behr, Jr. Pp. 43. 

 with 6 figures. 



No. 65. Investigations of Infra-Red Spectra : Part III, Infra- 

 Red Transmission Spectra. Part IV, Infra-Red Reflection 

 Spectra ; by William W\ Coblentz. Pp. 128, with 93 figures. 



4. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teach- 

 ing. First Annual .Report of the President and Treasurer. 

 Pp. 84. 1906.— The President, Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, and the 

 Treasurer, T. Morris Carnegie, of the Administration of the 

 Carnegie Fund for providing pensions to retiring officers of 

 universities and colleges in the United States, have recently 

 made their first report. It gives a statement as to the general 

 policy adopted, the educational standards defining the terms 

 college and university, with the special application to the 

 prominent institutions affected, and the list of officers and 

 widows on whom allowances are conferred. Fifty-two colleges 

 and universities are included in the list of accepted institutions; 

 of these one-half are in the New England states, New York and 

 Pennsylvania. It is fully appreciated, at least by all those con- 

 nected with the higher educational institutions, that this liberal 

 endowment, with a continauce of the wise administration it has 

 at the outset, is sure to accomplish a great work for the cause of 

 the higher learning in this country. 



5. A New Meteorite from Selma, Alabama. — Dr. G. P. Mer- 

 rill gives an account, in the Proceedings of the United States 

 National Museum, of a new meteorite stone found near Selma, 

 in Dallas County, Alabama. Its fall is with considerable proba- 

 bility identified with a fire ball observed on July 20, 1898, 

 although the stone was not found until recently. The total 

 weight is reported as 310 pounds, and it belongs to a class char- 

 acterized by spherulitic chrondules. The stone has been pur- 

 chased by the American Museum of Natural History in New 

 York City. 



Obituary. 



Sir Michael Foster, Professor of Physiology at Cambridge 

 for twenty years, from 1883 to 1903, died on January 29, at the 

 age of seventy-one years. 



Professor D. I. Mendeleef, the eminent Russian chemist whose 

 name will be always connected with the development of the 

 Periodic Law of the Chemical Elements, died on February 2, at 

 the age of seventy-three years. 



