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Schwarzenberg in the Erzgebirge. An analysis (sp. grav. = 

 2-152) gave (freed from impurities): 



Si0 3 AI0O3 CaO MgO K 2 Na 2 H 2 

 55-92 16-00 7-58 0-06 0-67 0-88 18-69 = 99-80 



— Centralblatt Min., 1913, p. 422. 



Kobaltnickelptrite is a member of the pyrite group having 

 the formula (Co,Fe,M)S 2 . It is described by M. Henglein from 

 the well-known locality at Miisen. It shows the pyritohedral 

 form (320) with the cube and octahedron. It has a steel-gray 

 color; hardness 5'55; specific gravity 4-72. An analysis gave: 

 S 53-70, Fe 21-15, Ni 17*50, Co [6-61], insol. 1-04 = 100.— Cen- 

 tralblatt Min., 1914, 129. 



A supposed new vanadate from the copper mines near Ozieri, 

 Sassari, Italy, is described by D. Lovisato. It occurs in minute 

 black crystals resembling descloizite and according to an analysis 

 by S. Manis contains : 



V 2 5 P 2 5 PbO ZnO CuO Fe 2 3 MnO H 2 



19-87 0-18 5376 2-45 13-13 6-54 0-05 3-45 = 99-43 



No name is suggested and the material evidently merits further 

 investigation. — It. Accad. Line, xix, 2, p. 326 in Zs. Kr., lii, 311. 



III. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. Carnegie Institution of Washington, Robert S. Wood- 

 ward, President. Tear Book No. 12, 1913. Pp. xvi, 336, with 

 13 plates. Washington, 1914. — The magnitude of the work of 

 the Carnegie Institution is well shown by the fact that its total 

 invested funds now amount to very nearly $23,000,000, to which 

 must be added real estate, equipments, and publications of 

 82,000,000, with current assets of $624,000 or about $25,500,000 

 in all. The receipts for the year ending October 31st amounted 

 to $1,500,000, of which $1,150,000 represents the income proper. 

 The expenditure for the same period upon the ten large depart- 

 ments, to the support of which the Institution is committed, 

 amounted to $700,000, while minor and special projects and 

 research assistants received $110,000 ; in addition, $53,000 was 

 paid out for publications, $43,550 for administration, and the 

 balance of the total of $1,572,000 went into investments and on 

 account of the Administration Building. 



In the review of the work of the year, Dr. Woodward calls 

 attention with satisfaction to the increased recognition which the 

 work of the Institution as a whole has received, and the greater 

 interest manifested throughout the world in the details of its 

 organization and equipment. It is noted that a department of 

 Human Embryology, under the direction of Professor Franklin 

 P. Mall, has been planned and has already began active research. 

 In the department of Experimental Evolution, two new buildings 



