7S Scientific Intelligence. 



14. Cold Spring Harbor Monographs. Published by the 

 Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, March, 1905.— The fol- 

 lowing additional numbers have been issued. 



IV. The Life History of Case Bearers: 1, Chlamys plicata; by 

 Ella Marion Briggs, 12 pp., with one plate and eleven text-figures. 



V. The Mud Snail: Nassa obsoleta; by Abigail Camp Dimon, 

 48 pp., with two plates. 



15. Montana Agricultural College Science Studies ; Botany. 

 Published quarterly by the College, Bozeman, Montana, 1905. — 

 Numbers 1, 2 and 3 of volume i, 139 pp., issued together, contain 

 the following papers : 



I. A century of Botanical Exploration in Montana, 1805-1905, 

 Collectors, Herbaria and Bibliography; by J. W. Blankinship. 



II. Supplement to the Flora of Montana, additions and correc- 

 tions ; by J. W. Blankinship. 



III. Common names of Montana Plants; by J. W. Blankinship 

 and Hester F. Henshall. This is accompanied by an excellent 

 colored plate of the pretty Bitter-root (JLewisia rediviva.) 



III. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. Vom Kilimanclscharo zum Meru ; von C. Uhltg. Zeit- 

 schrift fiir Erdkunde, Berlin, Jahrg. 1904, No. 9 und 10.— This 

 preliminary account of a journey of exploration in German East 

 Africa contains much that is of interest. In reading the opening 

 pages one cannot help reflecting how greatly the task of explor- 

 ation in eastern Central Africa has been simplified in the last 

 two or three years by the opening up of the Uganda Railway. 

 The long and trying journey across the eastern desert region, 

 which exhausted so much of strength, energy and resources 

 before the real work began, is now performed in comparatively 

 few hours. Thus onr author leaves the coast on the 12th of 

 September, and nine days later with his caravan is at Moschi on 

 the lower slope of Kilimandjaro, ready to commence the ascent. 



This he made from the eastern side without apparently any 

 serious difficulty beyond the suffering entailed by the sudden 

 change from the tropics to an arctic region. It will be recalled 

 that Kilimandjaro has two summit peaks, a higher snow-capped 

 one to the west called Kibo, and a lower one to the east called 

 Kimawenzi or Mawenzi ; these are separated by a deep saddle. 

 Uhlig reached a height of about 19,500 feet on Kibo, but was 

 unable to attain the highest point, which was about 200 feet 

 more above him. He gives a number of interesting details con- 

 cerning the snow and glacier formations accompanied by excel- 

 lent photographs. Since the last ascent by Hans Meyer the 

 amount of ice and snow appears to have distinctly increased. 

 One striking feature was the occurrence along the snow slopes of 

 long processions of weird and bizarre-shaped figures several feet 

 high, similar to those observed, of much greater size, in the Andes, 

 amd to which the name of "nieve penitente " has been given 

 from the suggestion which they offer of processions of white- 



