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which it is issued. Much of the matter, further, has already been 

 in the hands of those interested in the form of separately issued 

 pamphlets for the different chapters. The geologist- in-charge 

 states that the report for the calendar year 1904 is already in 

 course of preparation. 



10. Elements of Mineralogy, Crystallography and Blowpipe 

 Analysis • by Alfred J. Moses and Charles Lathrop Parsons. 

 Third enlarged edition. Pp. vii, 444, 8vo. New York, 1904 

 (D. Yan Nostrand Co.). — The new edition of this convenient and. 

 useful text-book retains all the good features of the former issues, 

 with some important changes and additions. The crystallo- 

 graphy has been rewritten, various changes made in the part 

 devoted to descriptive mineralogy, and the whole brought up to 

 date, so far as statistics and similar matters are concerned. 

 Numerous half-tones from photographs of mineral specimens are 

 introduced ; they are in some cases very satisfactory, but share 

 the limitations of such illustrations in general. 



III. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. Report of S. P Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution for the year ending lime SO, 190 % Pp. 1-99. Wash- 

 ington, 1904. — The functions of the Smithsonian Institution are 

 widely varied, including, besides publications and special work of 

 research and exploration, the constantly expanding department 

 of International Exchanges, the National Museum, the National 

 Zoological Park, the Astrophysical Observatory and the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology. This fact gives peculiar interest to the 

 advance report of the Secretary in which the results accomplished 

 for the year are enumerated. Among other points is to be noted 

 the removal of the remains of James Smithson from Genoa, and 

 their deposition in the Smithsonian Institution in the early part 

 of 1904. Another point of interest is the beginning of the new 

 Museum building for which ground was broken June 15, 1904. 

 The new building will be some 551X318 feet and will give a floor 

 area of 9-J acres in its four stories. Some of the results obtained 

 in the Astrophysical Observatory are given on p. 246 of this 

 number. 



The Bureau of American Ethnology, W. J. McGee, Acting 

 Director, has recently issued Parts 1 and 2 of the 2 2d Annual 

 Report. Of these Part 1 (pp. xliii, 320) contains the report of 

 the Director to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ; also 

 a paper by Jesse \V. Fewkes (195 pp., TO plates) on Pueblo Ruins ; 

 and one by Cyrus Thomas (pp. 197-305, 12 plates) on Mayan 

 Calendar Systems. Part II (372 pp., 9 colored plates) is devoted 

 to a memoir on the Hako, a Pawnee Ceremony by Alice C. 

 Fletcher, assisted by James R. Murie. 



2. Report of the Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey, showing the Progress of the Work from July 1, 1903 to 

 June 80, 1901f. 774 pp., with numerous plates and four maps. 



