320 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



expedition, viz : the meteorological, magnetic and tidal observa- 

 tions ; this record is very full and may be expected to yield im- 

 portant results, especially when digested in connection with the 

 observations made by other of the International Polar Expedi- 

 tions at their respective stations. 



2. Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the 

 Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-'82, by J. W. Pow- 

 ell, Director, pp. lxxiv and 606, 4to, with numerous colored and 

 uncolored plates and other illustrations. — The third annual report 

 of Major Powell is, like its predecessors, a valuable contribution to 

 Ethnology. The volume contains, besides the Director's report, 

 which forms the introduction, papers on the following subjects : On 

 certain Maya and Mexican manuscripts, by Cyrus Thomas; on 

 masks, labrets and certain aboriginal customs, by W. H. Dall ; on 

 Omaha Sociology, by J. Owen Dorsey ; on Navajo weavers, by Dr. 

 W. Matthews ; on prehistoric textile fabrics of the United States, 

 derived from impressions on pottery, by W. H. Holmes; also two 

 illustrated catalogues of collections made in 1881, by W. H. 

 Holmes, and by James Stevenson. 



3. Thermometer Exposure; by Henry A. Hazen. 32 pp. 4to, 

 Washington, 1885, (Professional Papers of the Signal Service, 

 No. xviii.) — This memoir contains an extended discussion of the 

 subject treated by the same author in an article in this Journal 

 in 1884 (vol. xxvii, 365); it concludes with an illustrated descrip- 

 tion of the roof thermometer shelter adopted by the U. S. Signal 

 Service. 



4. Wohler Memorial. — An urgent appeal is being made anew 

 in behalf of the fund for the statue to be erected at Gottingen 

 in commemoration of the life and work of the eminent chemist 

 Friedrich Wohler. This fund now amounts to about $4,000, but 

 must be considerably increased before it will be sufficient for the 

 end in view. . The circular of the committee asks for aid, by indi- 

 vidual subscription and influence, from all in this country inter- 

 ested, especially from the chemists. Prof. J. W. Mallet of the 

 University of Virginia is Chairman, and Prof. Ira Remsen of 

 Baltimore, Secretary and Treasurer. 



OBITUARY. 



A. von Lasaulx, Professor of Mineralogy at the University of 

 Bonn, died on the 25th of January, at the age of forty-six. 

 He was one of the most active workers in Germany in the 

 departments of Mineralogy and Petrography, and his early death 

 is a severe loss to science. 



Heinrich Fischer, Professor of Mineralogy at the University 

 of Freiberg in Baden, died in February last. His most important 

 contributions were in the line of microscopical mineralogy, and 

 to the study of the various minerals included under the name jade 

 he devoted himself most earnestly, both from the mineralogical 

 and archaeological side. His most important work was a volume 

 of 400 pages upon "Nephrite and Jadeite " published in 1875, 

 and a second edition in 1880. 



