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Annals. Volume LII, Part I. Eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites 

 1878-1903. Pp. 148, with 13 tables. Volume LV, Part I. Sec- 

 ond Catalogue of Variable Stars ; by Annie J. Cannon under 

 the direction of Edward C. Pickering. Pp. 94, with 6 tables. 

 Cambridge (1907). 



Volume LX, No. III. Positions of Phoebe 1S98-1904. Pp. 

 85, with 12 tables. 



Appendix to Ajinals, LX, No 11. P. 1, with I table. 



Circulars. No. 119. Observations of Phoebe in August and 

 September, 1906. P. 1, with 1 table. 



No. 120. Thirty-one New Variable Stars. Pp. 4, with 4 tables. 



No. 121. Novo* Velorum. Pp. 2, with 1 table. 



No. 122. Thirty-six New Variable Stars. Pp. 4 with 2 tables. 



No. 123. Photographs of Faint Stars. Pp. 3. 



No. 124. Stars having Peculiar Spectra. 18 New Variable 

 Stars. Pp. 4, with 1 table. 



8. Publications of the Washburn Observatory of the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin. — Part 3 of Volume x (pp. 1-106) has 

 recently been issued. It is devoted to observations of double 

 stars made in 1897-1906 by the Director, George C. Comstock. 

 These observations are in continuation of the series published 

 in Part I of the same volume. 



Obituary. 



M. Henri Moissan, Professor of General Chemistry at the 

 Sorbonne, died at Paris on February 20 at the age of fifty-five 

 years. He had accomplished much brilliant chemical work, 

 notably in the isolation of fluorine and the study of its proper- 

 ties, also in high-temperature researches and the use of the elec- 

 tric furnace. 



M. Pierre Eugexe Marcelltn Berthelot, the eminent 

 French chemist, died in Paris on March 17 in his eightieth 3 7 eai\ 



Professor Wilhelm von Bezold, Director of the Prussian 

 Meteorological Institute, died on February 17 in his seventieth 

 year. 



M. Maecel Bertrand, well known for his work on the geology 

 of the French Alps and the origin of mountains, died on Febru- 

 ary 13. 



Dr. Nicolas Sokolov, Geologist in charge of the Russian 

 Comite Geologique, and corresponding member of the Imperial 

 Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg, died on February 15. 



Dr. John Krom Rees, Professor of Geodesy and Astronomy 

 in Columbia University and Director of the Observatory since 

 1881, died on March 9 in his fifty-sixth year. 



Professor Henry Davis Todd, of the departments of Physics 

 and Chemistry in the IT. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, died on 

 March 8 at the age of sixty-nine yeai'S. 



Mr. W. J. Rhees, keeper of archives of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, died at Washington on March 18 in his seventy-sixth 

 year. He had been connected with the Smithsonian since 1852. 



