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III. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. Harvard College Observatory. — Recent publications in- 

 clude the following : 



Annals, Vol. LIII, No. V, Phoebe, the ninth Satellite of 

 Saturn ; by William H. Pickering. 



No. VI, Investigation of the Orbit of Phoebe ; by Frank E. 

 Ross. 



No. VII, Second Supplement to Catalogue of Variable Stars. 



No. VIIT, Martian Meteorology ; by William H. Pickering. 



No. IX, The ninth and tenth Satellites of Saturn ; by William 

 H. Pickering. 



Vol. LVI, No. III. The Spectrum of Nova Persei, No. 2. 



Circulars. No. 93, The 24-inch Reflecting Telescope. 



No. 94, Variability of Eunomia (15). 



No. 95, Brightness of Jupiter's Satellites. 



No. 96, 843 new variable Stars in the small Magellanic Cloud. 



No. 97, Bruce Photographs of Planets. 



No. 98, Stars having peculiar Spectra. 



No. 99, A probable new Star, RS Ophiuchi. 



No. 100, Variable Stars in the Clusters Messier 3 and Messier 5. 



No. 101, Positions of Ocllo (475) during 1904. 



No. 102, Positions of Phoebe in May, 1904. 



No. 103, Positions of Ocllo (475) during 1905. 



No. 104, H 1174. A new Algol Variable, 035727. 



2. Publications of the Cincinnati Observatory. No. 15, Cata- 

 logue of Jf280 Stars for the Epoch 1900 ; by Jermain G. Porter, 

 Director. 100 pp. Cincinnati, 1905 (University of Cincinnati). — 

 The stars included in this volume are all those of Piazzi's cata- 

 logue Avhich were north of the equator in 1 800 except those con- 

 tained in the Berlin Jahrbuch and eighteen of the Pleiades 

 group ; stars observed by Piazzi, but not given in his catalogue, 

 are also included. 



3. 'Report of the Director of the lTerkes Observatary, Uni- 

 versity of Chicago ; by Professor George E. Hale. 1, for the 

 period July 1, 1899 to' June 30, 1902, pp. 32. 2, for the period 

 July 1, 1902 to June 30, 1904, 8 pp.— These reports, though 

 presented in very concise form, give a clear summary of the 

 various lines of important work carried on at the Yerkes Observa- 

 tory during the five years from 1899 to 1904. 



4. Carnegie Institution of Washington. — Recent publications 

 from the Carnegie Institution include the following : 



No. 8. Bibliographical Index of North American Fungi ; by 

 William G. Farlow. Vol. I, Part I, Abrothallus toBadhamia, 

 Pp. xxxv, 312, 8vo. Washington, Sept. 1, 1905. 



No. 25, Evolution, Racial and Habitudinal ; by Rev. John T. 

 Gulick. Pp. xii, 269, 8vo. Washington, August, 1905. 



No. 27. Bacteria in Relation to Plant Diseases ; by Erwin F. 

 Smith, in charge of Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Bureau of 

 Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture. A'olume I, 



