Miscellaneous Intelligence. 167 



ist wunderbar conservativ : denn Ansichten, die man schon langst 

 als todt und begraben ansehen niiisste, stehen immerfort wieder 

 als Gespenster aus der Vergangenheit auf." J. b. 



III. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. The United States National Museum y by Richard Rath- 

 bun. Report of the U. S. National Museum for 1903, pp. 177- 

 309, with 29 plates. Washington, 1905. — This is a very readable 

 and well illustrated account of the Government Museum build- 

 ings in Washington ; the first of these is the picturesque Smith- 

 sonian building finally completed in 1855 and restored in 1865- 

 1867 after the partial destruction by fire in January, 1865. This 

 was followed by the National Museum, completed in 1881 under 

 Secretary Baird. The plans for the new Museum building, the 

 foundations of which have been recently begun, are also presented. 



2. Forestry: Tenth Annual Report of 'the Chief Fire Warden 

 of Minnesota, for the year 1904; by C. C. Andrews. 135 pp., 

 with 1 7 plates. — The annual appropriation by the State of Minne- 

 sota in behalf of the preservation of its forests amounts to the 

 very small sum of $5,000. The present report shows how much 

 can be accomplished with even this amount, and it cannot be 

 believed that the strong plea of the Chief Fire Warden for ade- 

 quate support and an enlightened policy can be disregarded; cer- 

 tainly the matter is one in which the State has a vital interest. 



3. Les Prix Nobel en 1902. Stockholm, 1 905.— The Swedish 

 Academy of Sciences has recently distributed an interesting 

 volume giving an account of the distribution of the Nobel prizes 

 in 1902, with plates showing the medals and diplomas, also the 

 portraits of the recipients accompanied by brief biographies. 

 The prizes were awarded as follows, viz.: in physics, to H. A. 

 Lorentz and Pieter Zeeman ; in chemistry, Ernil Fischer ; in 

 medicine, Ronald Ross ; in literature, Theodor Mommsen. The 

 volume also contains the Nobel lectures by Professors Lorentz, 

 Zeeman, Fischer, Ross and Ducommun. 



4. Negritos of Zarnbales y by William Allen Reed. 90 pp., 

 62 plates. Manila, 1904 (Ethnological Survey Publications, vol. 

 II, Part 1). — Of the various publications which appear from 

 time to time from Manila, not the least important are those 

 devoted to ethnological subjects. The present paper, which forms 

 Part I of vol. II, is devoted to an account of the interesting race 

 of pygmy blacks, the Negritos of Zarnbales Province ; it pre- 

 sents the subject very fully, with a large number of plates, repro- 

 duced from photographs. 



5. A Magnetic Survey of Japan reduced to the Epoch 1895'0 

 and the Sea-level, carried out by order of the Earthquake Investi- 

 gation Committee. Reported by A. Tanakadate. 347 pp., 98 

 plates, Tokyo, 1904. The Journal of the College of Science, 

 Imperial University of Tokyo, Japan, vol. xiv. — This large 

 volume presents the results of the Magnetic Survey of Japan, 



