Miscellaneous Intelligence. 287 



by means of sounding balloons to very great altitudes, and pre- 

 liminary results indicate that they give values oi the solar radia- 

 tion similar to those found by high and low sun observations on 

 homogeneous rays." Volume III of the Annals, including the 

 work of the years 190*7 to 1912, and published the past year, is 

 noticed in vol. xxxvi, p. 650. 



Among the publications of the Smithsonian Institution may be 

 mentioned the following relating to the Bureau of Ethnology : 



Twenty-eighth Annual Report, 1906-1907. Pp. 308, xxxv ; 

 103 plates, numerous text figures. 



Bulletin 53. Chippewa Music, II ; by Frances Densmore. 

 Pp. xxi, 341 ; 45 pis., 6 figs. 



Bulletin 54. The Physiography of the Rio Grande Valley, 

 New Mexico, in Relation to Pueblo Culture ; by Edgar L. Hew- 

 ett, Junius Henderson, and Wilfred W. Robbins. Pp. 76 ; 

 11 pis , 2 figs. 



2. Library of Congress. Report of the Librarian of Con- 

 gress, Herbert Putnam, and Report of the Superintendent of 

 the Library Building and Grounds, Bernard R. Green. For 

 the Fiscal Year ending June 30, 1913. Pp. 269, with 6 illustra- 

 tions. Washington, 1913. — The appropriations for the Library 

 of Congress for 1914 are some $608,000, or considerably in excess 

 'of those for 1913. The number of accessions the past year 

 includes nearly 116,000 volumes and pamphlets, a total which has 

 only been twice exceeded in the past fifteen years. No large 

 groups of printed books were presented, but an aggregate of 

 11,256 pieces were received by private gift from many indi- 

 viduals. The Library of Congress has been accepted to such an 

 extent as a model by the larger libraries in the country that the 

 annual report of the librarian is always interesting and instruc- 

 tive, particularly to those concerned with this line of work. It 

 may be noted that the total number of volumes catalogued dur- 

 ing the year was 107,500, and that the process of classification 

 has gone on steadily so that now the re -classified portion of the 

 Library contains some 1,277,000 volumes. The Library now con- 

 tains, in round numbers, 2,128,255 books and pamphlets, 135,223 

 maps and charts, 630,799 volumes and pieces of music, 360,494 

 prints (art); the manuscripts are numerous but cannot be defi- 

 nitely enumerated. 



3. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalwnm in the British 

 Museum, Volume XIII. The Noctuidm; by Sir George F. 

 Hampson. Pp. xiv, 609; 127 figures in the text. London, 1913. 

 — This volume is devoted to the remainder of the Noctuid nub- 

 family Catocalinai and the subfamilies Mominai and Phytome- 

 trinai. The first named includes here 44 genera and 379 species 

 (or 107 genera and 1022 species in all for this subfamily); the 

 Mominai embrace 11 genera and 74 species, the Phytometrince 

 15 genera and 226 species. 



Plates CCXXII-CCXXXIX, separately bound, accompany this 

 volume. 



