480 Scientific Intelligence. 



and parties were sent also to Alaska, Porto Rico, Hawaii, and the 

 Phillipines. Appendixes to the report include : The Boundary 

 Line between California and Nevada ; The International Lati- 

 tude Service in Maryland and California ; Outlines of Tidal 

 Theory. 



3. Die Fortschritte der Physih im Jahre 1902. Halbmonat- 

 liches .Litter •atur-verzeichniss ; redigirt von Karl Scheel (reine 

 Physik) und Richd. Assmann (kosmische Physik). Braunschweig, 

 1902 (Fr. Yieweg und Sohn). — Numbers 6, 7, 8 (pp. 117-175) 

 have recently appeared. See note in this Journal, vol. xiii, 

 p. 319. 



4. Elementary Calculus ; by Percey F. Smith, Professor of 

 Mathematics in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. 

 12mo, 89 pp. (American Book Company). — The design of the 

 author is to give in the compass of from thirty-five to forty ordi- 

 nary class-room exercises a thorough knowledge of the essentials 

 of the differential and integral calculus, together with sufficient 

 practical applications to exhibit the scope of the subject and 

 furnish the student facility in the use of his tools. Such a course 

 will be a wise econom}^ of time for many students, and will bring 

 a knowledge of this great science to many others who would 

 never undertake to master a more formidable treatise. 



w. B. 



5. Prize for Scientific Work by Women. — The Association 

 for maintaining the American Women's Table at the Zoological 

 station at Naples and for promoting Scientific Research by 

 Women, announces the offer of a second prize of one thousand 

 dollars for the best thesis written by a woman, on a scientific 

 subject embodying new observations and new conclusions based 

 on an independent laboratory research in biological, chemical or 

 physical science. Theses must be presented before Dec. 31st, 

 1904, to Mrs. Ellen H. Richards, Mass. Inst. Technology, Boston, 

 Mass. 



Obituary. 



Henry Morton, President of Stevens Institute of Technology, 

 at Hoboken, N. J., died May 9th at the age of sixty-six years. 



M. Alfred Corntj, the eminent French physicist, since 1867 

 Professor at the Ecole polytechnique in Paris, died in April last 

 at the age of sixty-one years. 



Dr. Alexander Bittner, chief geologist in the Imperial 

 Geological Institute at Vienna, died recently at the age of fifty- 

 t-wo years. 



M. Henri Filhol, Professor of Paleontology at the Jardin 

 des Plantes, Paris, died recently at the age of sixty-eight years. 



