Miscellaneous Intelligence. 473 



Horatio 0. Wood, Jr. : On the vaso-motor supply of the lungs. 



George F. Barker: Biographical memoir of Frederick Augustus Genth. The 

 monatomic gases. The newer forms of incaDdescent electric lamps. 



James M. Crafts : On the pseudo-catalytic action of concentrated acids. 



Samuel L. Penfield: On the use of the stereographic projection in making 

 accurate maps ; with criticism of some recent methods of map projection. The 

 tendency of complex chemical radicals to control crystallization because of their 

 mass effect; a study in isomorphism. 



Charles S. Peirce: On the logic of research into ancient history. 



Edgar F. Smith: Observations on tungsten. 



S. Weir Mitchell and Simost Flexner: Snake venom in relation to haemo- 

 lysis, bacteriolysis and toxicity. 



Ira Remsen: On the nature of the double halides. 



Cyrus B. Comstock: Biographical memoir of General John Newton. 



Henry F. Osborn: Dolichocephaly and Brachycephaly as the dominant 

 factors in cranial evolution. Cranial evolution of Titanotherium II. Latent or 

 potential homology. 



Edward W. Morley and Charles F. Brush: A new gauge for the direct 

 measurement of small pressures. Transmission of heat through vapor of water 

 at small pressures. 



Carl Barus: On quadrant electrometry with a free light needle highly 

 charged through a conductor of ionized air. On nuclear condensation in the 

 vapor of non-electrolytes like benzene ; and on graded condensation. 



Henry L. Bowditch : The work of the International Association of Acad- 

 emies. 



Caswell Grave: A method of rearing marine larvae. 



2. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, for the year ending Jane 30, 1900. Pp. xlv, 759. 

 Washington, 1901. — The Annual Report of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, recently published, includes in its preliminary part 

 the Report of the Secretary, Professor S.'P. Langley, which was 

 issued earlier in separate form, and has been noticed on page 400 

 of the May number. The remainder of the volume is occupied with 

 the general Appendix, which contains reprints of a well-selected 

 series of papers, on topics ranging from astronomy to medicine, 

 and all calculated to be of great interest to the ordinary reader 

 as well as to the scientist. With its other important functions, 

 the Smithsonian Institution does a valuable work in thus present- 

 ing to the public well-digested reviews of the progress of science 

 in its different departments and also in republishing articles 

 which would not otherwise be readily accessible. Of the subjects 

 here included, one of particular interest is an account, liberally 

 illustrated, of the Langley Aerodrome, and another on the Zep- 

 pelin Air Ship accompanies it. A complete list of the papers 

 printed in the volume would be required to show their range of 

 subject and individual importance. 



3. The Smithsonian Institution : Documents relative to its 

 Origin and History, 1835-1899 ; compiled and edited by William 

 Jones Rhees, in two volumes. Vol. I, 1835-1887. Twenty- 

 fourth Congress to Forty-ninth Congress. Pp. liii, 1044. 

 Washington, 1901. — The very interesting volumes relating to the 

 liistory and work of the Smithsonian Institution, presented to the 

 public some years since (1879, 1896) are now followed by the 

 republication in full of all the public documents which relate to 



