80 Scientific Intelligence. 



Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History. Volume II, pp. 

 141-255. Svo, contains Article III, on the Parasitic Fungi of Illinois, Part "7, by 

 T. J. Burrill. 



Second Annual Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University 

 of Wisconsin, for the year of 18S4. 112 pp. Svo. Madison, 1885. Bulletin No. 

 7, October, 1885. P'xperiments in Calf-feeding ; The Cooley sj'stem of creaming 

 milk. 



Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Chicago Astronomical Society 

 together with the Report of the Director of the Dearborn Observatory. 16 pp. 

 8vo. Chicago, 1885. This report contains observations on the planet Jupiter 

 from Sept., 1884, to July, 18S5; the descriptions are accompanied by two plates. 



Bibliographies of American Naturalists. II. The published writings of Isaac 

 Lea, LL.D., by Newton Pratt Scudder, 278 pp. Svo, with a portrait of Dr. Lea. 

 Washington, 1885. (Bulletin of the U. S. National Museum. No. 23.) 



The Annals of the Cakckiquels : The original text, with a translation, notes 

 and introduction by Daniel G. Brinton. 234 pp., Svo. Philadelphia, 1885, 

 (Brinton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature, No. VI.) 



The Races of Britain : A contribution to the Anthropology of Western Europe, 

 by John Beddoe. 271 pp. 8vo, with an appendix. Bristol and London, 1885. 

 (Scribner & Co.) 



Report of the Superintendent of the TJ. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey ; showing 

 the progress of the work during the fiscal year ending with June, 1884. 621 pp. 

 4to, with 23 maps. Washington, 1885. 



Report of the International Polar Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska. 695 

 pp. 4to, with numerous plates. Washington, 1885. 



Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. Ill, Part 1, 110 pp. 4to, 

 with 5 plates. Washington, 1885. This volume contains eight Memoirs, by 

 the following authors: G-. K. Gilbert, S. P. Langley, A. M. Mayer, C. P. Chand- 

 ler, C. S. Peirce and J. Jastrow, S. H. Scudder, E. D. Cope, A. S. Packard. 



Water Meters, by Ross E. Browne, and The Preservation of Timber, by S. B 

 Boulton. Nos. 81 and 82 of Van Nostrand's Science Series, (Reprints from 

 Van Nostrand's Magazine.) 



Anales de la Oficina Meterologica Argentina, por su Director Benjamin A. 

 Gould. Tomo IV, 600 pp. 4to. Buenos Aires, 1 884. 



Lectures on the Principles of House Drainage, by J. Pickering Putnam, Archi- 

 tect. 125 pp. 12mo. Boston, 1886, (Tickuor & Company) 



OBITUARY. 



Dr. John Christopher Draper, Professor of Chemistry in the 

 Medical Department of the University of the City of New York, 

 died in New York, on the twentieth of December, in his seventy- 

 first year. Dr. Draper was the oldest son of the eminent Professor 

 John W. Draper. His scientific papers, apart from those in the 

 Science of Medicine, are devoted to Chemical and Physical sub- 

 jects; and among the latter, chiefly to optical phenomena. His 

 last two, relating to dark lines in the solar spectrum, are contained 

 in volumes of this Journal for 1 8*78 and 1879. He is the author 

 also of a Practical Laboratory Course in Chemistry, and a Text- 

 book on Medical Physics, the latter work only recently issued. 

 He became Professor of Chemistry in the Medical Department of 

 the University of the City of New York, in the year 1866, and 

 was instrumental in placing it in the front rank among the medical 

 institutions of the country. He received the degree of Doctor of 

 Laws from Trinity College, Hartford, in 1873. 



