506 Scientific Intelligence. 



III. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, showing the Operations, Exp>enditures, and Condi- 

 tions of the Institution for the year ending June 30, 1906. Pp. 

 li, 546, with 41 plates. Washington, 1907. — The annual vol- 

 ume now issued contains the report of the Acting Secretary, Mr. 

 Richard Rathbun, which (as separately published) was noticed in 

 an earlier number of this Journal (vol. xxiii, p. 242). The gen- 

 eral appendix (pp. 91-546) contains as usual a series of illus- 

 trated papers, selected for republication here as giving concise 

 accounts of recent scientific discovery in different fields. The 

 subjects included range from radio-activity and wireless teleg- 

 raphy to ethnography and geography. The volume closes with a 

 biographical notice of the late Professor Langley by Cyrus 

 Adler. 



This report by the Acting Secretary shows that the Institution 

 was maintained at its full efficiency during the time following 

 the death of the former Secretaiy. The recent accession of Dr. 

 Charles D. Walcott, who was elected Secretary in January last, 

 gives promise of new activity and expansion for the varied 

 interests involved. 



Some of the prominent publications recently issued under the 

 auspices of the Smithsonian Institution are given in the follow- 

 ing list : 



Twenty-fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Eth- 

 nology for 1903-04. Pp. xxix, 296, with 129 plates and 70 

 figures. — This volume, besides the report of the Chief of the 

 Bureau, Mr. W. H. Holmes, contains two memoirs by Jesse 

 Walter Fewkes ; one of these is devoted to the Aborigines of 

 Porto Rico and Neighboring Islands, the other to Certain 

 Antiquities of Eastern Mexico. 



Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge : Part of Volume 

 xxxv. The Young of the Crayfishes Astacus and Cambarus ; by 

 E. A. Andrews. Pp. 79, with 10 plates and 93 figures. See 

 p. 449. 



Bulletins. — No. 50. The Birds of North and Middle America. 

 Part IV ; by Robert Ridgwat. Pp. vi, 973, with 34 plates. 



No. 53. Part II. Catalogue of the Type and Figured Speci- 

 mens of Fossils, Minerals, Rocks and Ores in the Department of 

 Geology, United States National Museum. Prepared under the 

 Direction of George P. Merrill. Part II. Fossil Vertebrates ; 

 Fossil Plants ; Minerals, Rocks, and Ores. Pp. v, 370. 



No. 57. The Families and Genera of Bats ; by Geerit S. 

 Miller, Jr. Pp. v, 282, with 14 plates. 



No. 58. Herpetology of Japan and Adjacent Territory ; by 

 Leonhard Stejneger. Pp. xx, 577, with 35 plates and 409 

 figures. 



