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whole are omitted. One great advantage which this book pos- 

 sesses over most of its kind lies in the fact that organs are taken 

 up in such sequence that one specimen should suffice for the 

 entire dissection. k. w. h. 



III. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. National Academy of Sciences. — The annual meeting of the 

 National Academy of Sciences was held in Washington, April 

 15-18 ; it was largely attended and full of interest. Professor 

 Alexander Agassiz, elected President of the Academy a year 

 since, presided during the sessions. The following gentlemen 

 were elected members : William W. Campbell of Mt. Hamilton, 

 California, George E. Hale of Chicago, C. Hart Merriam of 

 Washington, D. C, William Trelease of St. Louis, Missouri, 

 Charles R. Van Hise of Madison, Wisconsin. 



The titles of papers presented for reading are as follows : 



Henry F. Osborn : Evolution of the Titanotheres III ; models and resto- 

 rations. Homoplasy and latent homology. A correction. Evidence that 

 North America and Eurasia constituted a single zoological realm during the 

 Mesozoic and Cenozoic, and that correlations can be established as a basis 

 for uniformity of geological nomenclature. 



Alpheus S. Packard : Monograph of the bombycine moths of America, 

 including their transformation ; with a revision of the known genera. Part 

 III. Sphingicampidse. 



Alexander Agassiz : On the coral reefs of the Maldives. On the theory 

 of the formation of coral reefs. 



J. McK. Cattell : Psychophysical fatigue. 



Edward L. Nichols : On some optical properties of asphalt. 



Charles S. Peirce : The classification of the sciences. The postulates of 

 geometry. The color system. 



William Sellers : The compulsory introduction of the French Metrical 

 System into the United States. 



Asaph Hall : The disintegration of comets. 



Ira Ibsen Sterner : A new computation of the coefficients of precession 

 and nutation. 



E. C. Pickering : The distribution of the stars. The variability in light 

 of Eros. 



H. P. Bowditch : The physiological station on Monte Rosa. 



James M. Crafts : On catalysis. 



T. W. Richards : The atomic weight of caesium. The significance of 

 changing atomic volume. 



Edward W. Morley : Determination of the weight of the vapor of mer- 

 cury at temperatures below 100°. 



Arthur Searle : Biography of Professor William A. Rogers. 



Henry L. Abbot : Biographical memoir of General J. G. Barnard. 



John S. Billings : Biographical memoir of General Francis A. Walker. 



C. A. White: Biographical memoir of J. S. Newberry. 



S. C. Chandler : The present aspect of our knowledge as to the constant 

 of aberration. 



2. American Association for the Advancement of Science. — 

 The fifty-tirst meeting of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science will be held at Pittsburg, Pa., June 28th 

 to July 3d. In connection with this meeting Dr. I. C White 

 proposes to guide a party for a week in the study of the Coal 



