416 Scientific Intelligence. 



Measures, and Mr. M. R. Campbell will conduct an excursion to 

 the abandoned channels of the Monongahela River. 



3. National Bureau of Standards. — In Circular of Informa- 

 tion, No. 1, S. W. Steatton, Director of the National Bureau of 

 Standards, announces the organization of the bureau and explains 

 the work which it is prepared to do at the present time. 



4. The Centenary of Hugh Miller. — It is proposed to commemo- 

 rate the 100th anniversary of the distinguished Scotch geologist, 

 Hugh Miller, who was born at Cromarty, on the 10th of October, 

 1802. The committee having the matter in charge hope to secure 

 funds sufficient to justify the foundation of a Hugh Miller Insti- 

 tute. Subscriptions may be sent to John M. Clarke, State Hall, 

 Albany, N. Y. 



5. Ostwald's Klassiker der Exahten Wissenschaften. Leipzig, 

 1900-1901 (Wilhelm Engelmann). — The following are recent 

 additions to this valuable series : 



Nr. 119. Yersuch iiber die Hygrometrie (II. Heft 1783); von Horace Bene- 

 diete de Saussure. Pp. 170. 



Nr. 120. Die Anatomie der Pflanzen (I. und II. Theil): von Marcellus Malpighi 

 (London 1675 and 1679). Pp. 163. 



Nr. 121. Versuche iiber Pflanzenhybriden (zwei Abhandlungen 1865 und 1867) ; 

 von Gregor Mendel. Pp. 62. 



Nr. 122. Sechs Beweise des Fundamentaltheorems iiber quadratiscbe Reste ; 

 von Carl Fried rich Gauss. Pp. 111. 



Nr. 123. Einige geometrische Betrachtungen (1826); von Jacob Steiner. Pp. 

 125. 



6. British Association Meeting at Glasgow, 1901. Discussion 

 on the Teaching of Mathematics ; edited by John Peeey. (The 

 Macmillan Co.) Pp. 101. — An exhaustive report of a full and 

 thorough discussion contributed to by thirty-two of the most 

 able and experienced educators of England. Any teacher of 

 mathematics who feels himself in danger of dry rot should secure 

 the book. 



The two points brought out with special emphasis and una- 

 nimity are that the elementary notions of the Calculus and 

 Analytical Geometry should be taught to school boys as early as 

 formal Geometry and that England must get rid of the study of 

 Euclid. w. b. 



7. The Basis of Social Relations ; by Daniel G. Beinton, 

 A.M., M.D., LL.D., Sc.D. Edited by Livingston Faeeand. 

 New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons. Pp. 204.— At his death (1899) 

 Dr. Brinton had this work approximately complete, and the 

 editor has made only slight changes in it. The doctrine of 

 the psychological unity of man is plainly stated and the varia- 

 tions resulting from physiological and pathological causes is 

 explained in some detail (pp. 23-123). Part II deals with the 

 Natural History of the Ethnic Mind and contains chapters on 

 the Somatic Environment, the Social Environment, and the Geo- 

 graphic Environment. The book commends itself to the general 

 reader and has an added interest in the fact that it is the last 

 word of one of America's most distinguished ethnologists. 



