412 Scientific Intelligence. 



Methods of work and general literature of Bacteriology exclusive 

 of Plant Diseases. Pp. xii, 285, 4to, with 31 plates and 146 

 text-figures. Washington, September, ] 905. 



5. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures and con- 

 dition of the Institution for the year ending June SO, 190^. Pp. 

 lxxix, 804, with numerous plates and text-figures. — The advance 

 report of the Secretary, Professor S. P. Langley, was noticed in 

 the number for March, on page 261. The complete volume now 

 issued contains this administrative report, occupying the first one 

 hundred pages, and also following a general appendix, pp. 109-791, 

 containing, as usual, a series of articles. These give brief accounts 

 of important scientific discoveries, also reports of investigations 

 made by the workers connected with the Institution, and some 

 more extended papers on special subjects of interest to the cor- 

 respondents of the Institution. The volume closes with bio- 

 graphical notices of Sir George G. Stokes, Professor von Zittel 

 and Professor Karl Gegenbauer. 



6. Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British 

 Museum of Natural History. Volume IV, Carinataz (JPasseri- 

 formes continued) ; by Eugene W. Oates assisted by Capt. 

 Saville G. Reid. Pp. xviii, 352, with 14 colored plates. 

 London, 1905. — This fourth volume of the British Museum Cata- 

 logue of Birds' Eggs corresponds with the fourth volume of Dr. 

 Bowlder Sharpe's Hand-list of Birds. The number of species 

 included is 620, represented by 14,917 specimens. 



7. Bibliotheca Zoologica II. Verzeichniss der Schriften uber 

 Zoologie welche in den periodischen Werken enthalten und vom 

 Jahre 1861-1880 selbstdndig erschienen sind; bearbeitet von Dr. 

 O. Taschenberg. Siebzehnte Lieferung. — The sixth volume of 

 this comprehensive work is completed with the present part. 

 Like the parts immediately preceding, it is devoted to the 

 twenty-second section of the entire field, that of Paleozoology, 

 which it brings to a close. The volume, title page, dedication, 

 and table of contents are also included. 



Obituary. 



Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen died on October 7th, at 

 the age of seventy-two years. 



Professor Leo Errera, Professor of Botany in the University 

 of Brussels, died on August 1, at the age of forty-seven years. 



Mr. G. B. Buckton, F.R.S., the English Entomologist, died on 

 September 26, at the age of eighty-eight years. 



M. Elisee Reclus, the eminent French geographer, died in 

 July last in his seventy-sixth year. 



