382 Scientific Intelligence. 



III. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. Carnegie Institution of Washington. — Recent publications 

 of the Carnegie Institution are noted in the following list (see 

 earlier, p. 87, July, 1907 : 



No. 5. A General Catalogue of Double Stars within 121° of 

 the North Pole ; by S. W. Burnham. Part I. The Catalogue, 

 4to, pp. lv. Part II. Notes to the Catalogue. Pp. viii, 259- 

 1086. 



No. 54. Research in China. Volume One in Two Parts: Part 

 Two. Petrography and Zoology ; by Eliot Blackwelder. 

 Syllabary of Chinese Sounds; by Friedrich Hirth. 4to, pp. iv, 

 367-528. 



No. 62. Condensation of Vapor as induced by Nuclei and 

 Ions ; by Carl Barus. 8vo, pp. v, 164, with 55 tables and 66 

 figures. 



No. 64. Variation and Correlation in the Crayfish, with Special 

 Reference to the influence of Differentiation and Homology of 

 Parts ; by Raymond Pearl and A. B. Clawson. 8vo, pp. 70, 

 with 32 tables. 



No. 68. Further Researches on North American Acridiidse ; 

 b} r Albert P. Morse. Svo, pp. 54, with 9 plates. 

 • No. 71. Atlas of Absorption Spectra ; by H. S. Uhler and R. 

 W. Wood. 4to, pp. 59, with 26 plates (102 figures). 



No. 72. Investigation of Inequalities in the Motion of the 

 Moon produced by the Action of the Planets ; by Simon New- 

 comb, assisted by Frank E. Boss. 4to, pp. v, 160, with 49 tables. 



No. 84. The Proteins of the Wheat Kernel ; by Thomas B. 

 Osborne. 8vo, pp. 119. 



2. A laboratory Manual of Invertebrate Zoology / by Gil- 

 man A. Drew, Ph.D. Pp. xii, 201. Philadelphia, 1907 (W. B. 

 Saunders Co.). — The manual is based on laboratory directions 

 which are the result of the experience of the last six years in 

 teaching the class in general zoology at the Marine Biological 

 Laboratory of Woods Hole, Mass. In addition to the particularly 

 satisfactory directions for dissecting a large number of inverte- 

 brate types, special emphasis is placed upon such facts as lead 

 the student "to an appreciation of adaptation." b. w. k. 



Obituary. 



Dr. Wilbur Olin Atwater, Professor of Chemistry in Wes- 

 leyan Universitj 7 , Middletown, Ct., since 1873, died on Sept. 22 at 

 the age of sixty-three years. 



