41 S Scientific Intelligence. 



is meant to exploit all of the commercial products of the Indian 

 Empire. Minerals, animal-products, and all conceivable deriva- 

 tives from plants find here a place and a proper treatment, under 

 an exhaustive system of note-filing. The author and his assist- 

 ants have laid under contribution current journals and news- 

 papers in a discriminating manner, so that every source of 

 information which is at all reliable has been made to contribute. 

 When one uses this work in conjunction with J. C. Willis's 

 admirable Flowering Plants and Ferns, with its enormous array 

 of facts in regard to the genera and orders of plants, the study 

 of eastern resources becomes a true pleasure. g. l. g. 



18. The Forest Flora of New South Wales ; by J. H. Maiden. 

 — This valuable work is progressing regularly, and has now 

 reached the third part of the fourth volume. The descriptions 

 are clear and concise. The accounts of the technical applications 

 and possible further extension of these uses must be of importance 

 in the development of the colonies. The illustrations, to which 

 we have before called attention, are of a high order of excellence. 



G. L. G. 



III. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. National Academy of Sciences. — The annual Spring meet- 

 ing of the National Academy was held at Washington on April 

 20-22; upwards of forty members were in attendance. 



The following new members were elected: Joseph S. Ames, 

 Johns Hopkins University; Maxime Bocher, Harvard University; 

 Oskar Bolza, University of Chicago; F. W. Clarke, U. S. Geolog- 

 ical Survey; John M. Clarke, State Geologist of New York; J. M. 

 Coulter, University of Chicago; Henry Crew, Northwestern 

 University; Waldemar Lindgren, U. S. Geological Survey; 

 Thomas H. Morgan, Columbia University; Henry L. Wheeler, 

 Sheffield Scientific School. 



The following were elected foreign associates: Albrecht Penck, 

 University of Berlin; Gustaf Retzius, University of Stockholm; 

 Wilhelm Waldeyer, University of Berlin; Wilhelm Wundt, 

 University of Leipzig. 



The list of the papers presented at the meeting is as follows : 



G. C. Comstock : The nature and possible origin of the Milky Way. 



H. N. Russell, : Determination of stellar parallax from photographs 

 made by Arthur R. Hincks and the writer. 



C. H. Merriam : Strange ceremonial costumes of California Indians. 

 Mythology of the Mewan Indians of California. 



W. H. Holmes : Archaeological problems of the Titicacan plateau. 



H. F. Osborn : Discovery of a complete skeleton of lyrannosaxirus in the 

 Upper Cretaceous. An Iguanodont Dinosaur (Trachodon) with the epidermis 

 preserved. 



F. H. Knowlton : Stratigraphic relations and paleontology of the lower 

 member of the Fort Union formation. 



