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species and two genera are new ; of the terrestrial forms three 

 are new species, one of which is the type of a new genus. 



8. British Museum Catalogues. — The following are recent addi- 

 tions to the list of highly valuable and complete Catalogues 

 issued by the British Museum of Natural History : 



Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. 

 Vol. iii, containing plates xxxvi-liv. 



Catalogue of the Arctiadae (Arctianse) and Agaristidse in the 

 Collection of the British Museum ; by Sir George F. Hampson. 

 Pp. xix, 690. 



A Hand-list of the Genera and Species of Birds (Nomenclator 

 avium turn fossilium turn viventium) ; by R. Bowlder Sharpe, 

 LL.D. Vol. iii. Pp. xii, 367. 



Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British 

 Museum. Vol. i. Ratitae, Carinatse (Tinamiformes-Lariformes). 

 By Eugene W. Oates. Pp. xxiii, 252 ; with 18 colored plates. 



Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum. Part 

 IV, containing the Actinopterygian Teleostomi of the Sub- 

 orders Isospondyli (in part), Ostariophysi, Apodes, Percesoces, 

 Hemibranchii, Acanthopterygii, and Anacanthini ; by Arthur 

 Smith Woodward. Pis. i-xix. Pp. xxxvii, 636. 



9. Bermuda and the Challenger Expedition ; by George 

 Watson Cole, of Graham Court, New York City (privately 

 printed). Pp. 1-16. — A bibliography giving a summary of the 

 scientific results obtained at and near Bermuda by the Challenger 

 Expedition of 1873. 



IV. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. Report of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution for 

 the Year ending June 30, 1901. — In his annual report, Professor 

 Langley gives a summary of the work done by the Smithsonian 

 Institution in its several fields of activity. In the appendixes to 

 the general report are more detailed statements regarding the 

 work of the National Museum, the Bureau of Ethnology, the- 

 National Zoological Park, the Astrophysical Observatory, etc. 

 The field work in ethnology for the year included an expedition 

 into Low r er California, and two reports of peculiar interest — one 

 the Codex Hopiensis, the other a paper on wild rice as an abo- 

 riginal food, are announced as ready for publication. The Astro- 

 physical Observatory gives a preliminary statement regarding 

 the eclipse expedition to Sumatra in May. 



2. An Important Discovery in Color Photography. — At the 

 meeting of the Connecticut Academy of Sciences, Wednesday, 

 Feb. 12th, Prof. A. E. Verrill exhibited several remarkable pho- 

 tographs in natural colors, made direct from nature by a new 

 autochromatic process, just invented by Mr. A. Hyatt Verrill of 

 New Haven, after several years of experimenting. One of these 

 photographs was of a bright-colored Bermuda crab, from life ; 

 another was a Bermuda landscape in which the beautiful tints of 



